Ringworld! Would ringworld work ecologically? It doesn't have a geology so I have to wonder if over a long period of time it would just fill up with crap (literally).

The link has photos and diagrams.

The forth Doctor Tom Baker forever and ever amen.

Yeah I don't see how that happens. Aerobic life has such a huge advantage over anaerobic that..... I would guess...... you'd have eliminate all aerobic organisms to let anaerobic life take over again.

Yes, you should be flayed alive, then dipped in acid. Even then it's not enough.

You are supposed to get high before you watch it. It's a rule.

"Zombies are not real"

The biosphere is not fragile. In fact, it is quite robust and has survived 5 other extinction level events in Earth's history. (We are at the beginning of #6.) The P/T boundary event rendered nearly 97% of all life on Earth extinct and yet life survived.

Also: Creating the Innocent Killer John Kessel

Google Elaine Radford. She did a textual analysis of ender's Game and came to the conclusion outlined above. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's the same kind of textual analysis that is used to determine the old testament of the Bible has multiple authors. Also google Ender's Game as apologia for Hitler.

Ender's Game was not written by Orson Scott Card. It was ghost written by elders in the Mormon church and it is a retelling the life of Adolph Hitler. They wanted to rehabilitate Hitler and make him a sympathetic character because they admired him.

"Also, it's not exclusively mothers. Fathers are certainly welcome to come."

Why yes you're absolutely right. Taking your mom out on a date is a sure sign of respect and teaches the son important values. I mean, at least mom isn't a dirty whore like those other girls who only want to steal him away from her and do unspeakable things to your sweet sweet innocent son. THEY don't love him the way…

This doesn't measure anything other than Amazon's sales. It's like saying the Bible is the most widely read book because the Gideon Society makes massive buys and distributes them to hotel nightstand drawers where they largely stay unread.

I have to agree. The pilot was just one cliche after another. I knew the whole plot after the first few minutes. The mediocre acting and the "I have colored contacts and body makeup so I must be alien" just pisses me off these days.

The pilot was an absolutely horrible piece of trash. I'm not sure I can gather up the energy to watch any more.

Hook up a generator to that treadmill, give every teenage boy one and we will be energy independent in no time!

This is ok except for the inclusion of pseudoscience like dualism. That doesn't belong here but I suppose you have to be inclusive. I am definitely in the consciousness in not a result of computation group And John Searle gave the definitive refutation of strong AI 30 years ago.

Larry Niven called them wire heads. So maybe we could call future dopamine addicts "LED heads".