I'm afraid the only Smurf-related content I've ever enjoyed was:

Hmmm, good point. I suppose it's because the others were just the usual Trek technobabble—y'know, "We don't have time for a lot of exposition, just accept it and try to keep up!"—while Red Matter was more like a major plot point. It just irked me that, with a bit of effort, the screenwriters could have found something…

Never played WoW, but this looks hilarious! Reminds me a bit of Phil Foglio's old "What's New?" strip in Dragon (and boy, will that ever date me!)

Well, there was this guy, but I doubt anyone would have had the stones to call him "Honey"...

Slightly off-topic, but for anyone who's a fan of Ur and/or Brooklyn's very own Ambassadors of Love, here's a link to what I'm pretty sure is the only pop song extant which references Mohenjo Daro. Enjoy!

He was played by Andre the Giant, which makes him awesome by default. Plus he was a bionic Bigfoot, which just doubles the awesome, IMHO.

Ack, Boggy Creek, I actually saw that stinker in a theater! Believe it or not, the worst part wasn't the guy in the cheap rubber suit and his habit of scaring people in the can—it was a folk song in the soundtrack about one of the "witnesses" with bizarrely random lyrics! (I remember the first line was something like,…

"Awww, the nouveau-Trekkers are so cute when they stamp their widdle feets!" - guy who's been watching Trek since 1966 and thought the new movie was just fine.

I think I smell the next SyFy original movie...

I think we should also give a shout-out to Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who established the relationship between the period and luminosity of Cepheid stars, making it possible to use them as yardsticks in the first place.

The information about the Hortens' flying-wing craft is fascinating. But I'm sorry, the rest of the story is even stupider than that "Majestic-12" nonsense.

Yep. Rumpelstiltskin always brings Jonathan Carroll's Sleeping In Flame to my mind, and I'd love to see Carlyle in an adaptation of that. Probably too much to hope for from network teevee, but one can dream...

This whole discussion reminds me that my mind was slightly blown in middle school when I read that, on the surface of a sphere, the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line, but the arc of a great circle. I didn't start shouting "Ia! Ia!", but it was a near thing.

I know, I've read that, too, but I don't even pretend to claim to understand it. I find it fascinating, though, that in the short time since my high school days (hah!), black holes have gone from, "Isn't this a cool theoretical thingie?" to, "They definitely exist in the center of most galaxies, including our own."

After seeing his (nigh-unrecognizable) performance in Shadow Of The Vampire, I'm willing to believe Dafoe would make a convincing Tars Tarkas.

This might not be canonical anymore, but wasn't there a FF/Inhumans story that revealed Lockjaw was actually a person severely mutated by the Terrigen Mists, and he spoke? (If memory serves, Quicksilver wanted to expose his daughter Luna to Terrigen, and Lockjaw made him seriously rethink this.)

Nonononono, the appropriate response to a SyFy Original Movie is not fear. (Unless it's the fear of them green-lighting another sequel.)

The interesting thing about a spinning black hole (and I will be the first to admit I only have a layman's grasp of the concept, math is not my forte): the singularity at the center is not a point but a ring. An object falling into it might be able to avoid being torn apart by tidal stresses and pass through into...…

So, uh, um, like, y'know, this?

Thanks for feeding my phobia about things that can snack on me, io9—sheesh, I've never even been able to watch Alligator all the way through!