The goal is just as much to get people off of Earth as it is to get them on Mars.

Granted. But I think that’s about as accurate as we’re gonna get from Hollywood these days. 2001 set the bar high, didn’t it?

Yes, it can, and we’ve already seen photos of frost heave formations near the martian poles.

That would be me, and no I don’t have the measles.

Real science is pretty far away from the science fiction of The Martian.

Just because they’re radical doesn’t mean they aren’t religious. Their religious views is how they justify their monstrous crimes.

Calling them barbarians is libel against barbarians, and improperly ascribes humanity to these animals.

It takes true cowardice to murder an 81 year old.

They’re not religious, and they’re not a state.

But this isn’t for the usual reasons. They didn’t kill him because he was a man of knowledge. They killed him because he refused to tell them where all the relics are because selling relics have becoming a HUGE money maker for ISIS. People are clamoring for relics thinking that ISIS might wipe them all out, making the…

When fanatical religious barbarians seize the helm of state, intellectuals are always among the victims.

I SAID “NO CAPES”!

Eh, if I had told you that in season 4 there would be an episode where the Doctor would only appear on old video tapes for a few minutes in the episode, that would have sounded crazy too.

October 31st can’t come soon enough. Ash vs Evil Dead needs to get in my eyeballs right now.

For fucking real. Cooks and servers have the driest hands in the world because they wash them like 70 times a day.

I feel like this was covered before, but... the ABL was not originally conceived for ICBM defense. Rather it was for IRBM or “theater” defense against missiles like the SCUD, or even cruise missiles. And in that role, where we had already established air superiority, it would make sense to have a giant 747 with a…

Beyond the laser we need better thermal management and battery technology before it will fly. (On anything beyond a C130) Even the best lasers are only 30% efficient, so at a megawatt that is a ton of heat. And the turbine engine isn’t going to be able to handle sudden pulse loading of the laser without some energy…

Of the 200 billion spent on the ISS Russia has spent 25 and Europe 10.

You don’t do science expecting money to pour on you from above, you do it for the pure sake of the knowledge you gain.

I don’t think it is pointless, at all.