every dictionary there is disagrees

So, in other words, on the small, early space missions, we want people well suited for nuclear submarine duty. Being stuck in metal tubes for many months on end, as nuclear submariners are, has certain mental and social requirements.

It may never have any real world application and that's not the point. Science is not about making gadgets for people or, at best, it's only incidentally about making gadgets for people. Science is first, foremost and only about understanding how the universe works.

Dune- so much I could say...

But of course Star Trek...

That is next level action corn right thurr. If anyone can bring the corn, it is the Wachowskis, though please no more cringe-worthy raving scenes.

Aside from blood lab values, most of these test can already be done in the home with inexpensive devices. To me, these devices are just Web Md taken to the next level. Yes, it may provide a benefit for some people, but it's not going to replace traditional diagnostic tests for a while.

Have all the hope you want I keep picturing THIS!

If they'd only stuck to the level of consistency we see in the comics we'd be golden.

That's funny — I made a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern crack in another comment on this thread.

He not incorrect though. Snow in the south does not disprove global warming exists.

Well that's not a very nice thing to say. Not very nice at all.

It's a river of Brawndo.

First, they fuckulate the energy bits, they get churgled in a gimzo, then they are re-fuckulated back into the original form, creating a nice drawing of a pirate or turtle.

Best footnote ever.

If I was making a Superman movie about his presence in the real world, I would bring this guy in to shoot a brief morning-news appearance of him saying, "See, I told you. Aliens."

I thought it was so self-evidently silly that it needed no underscoring on my part.

It's not the artist who pisses me off, it's the response from the critics. In some ways they are praising the artist's idea of reproducing these covers in this fashion, but most of them seem to be praising what the content evokes, which this artist had absolutely nothing to do with except for the fact that he chose…

There was nothing but an ocean on the other side of the globe. It's called Panthalassa.

And, Pangea will be back. In 250 million years the earth's continents will all slam into each other again.