Hmmm, reminds me of Niven's "Copseye"...

Yeah, unfortunately, it's just too damn easy for an artist to drag his pencil across a piece of paper to create an image of a bullet bouncing off the "skin" of a muscle-bound humanoid.

The Niven article was covered in this deleted scene from Hancock...

I guess you can't call Tom Lehrer's music "Rock" by any stretch of the imagination, but here he is anyway...

Fictional character? The deuce, you say! Apparently you haven't picked up your copy of the "docudrama" on DVD yet. Be sure to check out the commentary and Bonus Features.

I can hardly wait to hear some politician whine, "If only we had a way to repair that satellite, or bring it back!" It's like we've built our first little town in space, and now we're dismantling all the construction gear? Maybe we'd like to build some'n else later?

Also here, pages 59-64...

What about, "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Did you know that you could be carrying as much as eight pounds of 'waste' on you right now?

Oh, is there something on the drawing boards that I'm not aware of that has the same capabilities as the Shuttle?

Say an astronaut is performing repairs on the outside of the international space station or on an orbiting satellite.

Well, people always said that the CGI on Babylon 5 looked "dodgy", but it was the first time we saw true Newtonian physics on display. The way objects tumble in zero-g, and the way light and shadow play across them.

You're mistaken. The Dry-Dock sequence was the exact proper length.

Agree wholeheartedly! I really love what former astronaut Leroy Chiao has been saying about the Shuttle...

Great, now the "Moon Hoax" people are gonna start back up with the "no visible stars" malarkey.

Maybe the California Science Center in Exposition Park will do just that!

Actually, the APOD page says 17,000 mph, which is still wrong, because the Shuttle's De-orbit Burn reduces the velocity by only 200 mph, so even at 17,300 mph they'd be dropping out of the sky.