Thank you for this, especially the links to the sites that test supplements independently.

Until laws are passed demanding that the labels be 100% accurate and the government has the ability to enforce those laws, it's caveat emptor for us all.

So it looks like the new length of the transformation scene gives the bad guy even more time to prepare or flee!

I cannot even begin to guess the incredible number of hours I spent playing Alpha Centauri. It could easily stretch into weeks.

I am convinced that Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection were nothing more than nightmares Ripley had during hypersleep after Aliens. At least, that is what I keep telling myself.

They're big enough to have their own gravity!

This is actually a response to the claim that the white pancake makeup is racist. I'll get the hang of responding to comments on io9 someday.

Could it be the white makeup makes it easier to substitute the body doubles and stunt actors?

I have no idea what you're smoking, but I think I want some.

As an ordained member of the clergy who also publishes genre short stories, I thought your points interesting.

I still say it was a lousy movie, but the Event Horizon from the movie of the same title was true awesome starship porn.

What I would love to see is a very good, faithful and artistic adaption of Stephen King's Mrs. Todd's Shortcut. Not a full length feature film as that would destroy it, but a short dedicated to just the wonder (and general creepiness) of it all.

If I may be so bold, there is one book that I read that I found disturbing, frightening, and absolutely captivating: Bishop's Landing by Richard Forsythe. He took a haunted house story and made it, for its time, unique and very believable with some of the best characterization I have ever read. Good luck trying to…

Agreed. This is even cooler than the traditional saucer shape.

That's terrible even by the most lax chop-socky film standards known.

Dig Dug. At this new convenience store that just came into the area called Sheetz.

The church they are using has not been used in years.

Very well researched and quite accurate (I'm a theologian by trade).

Just out of curiosity, *with present technology*, how long would it take to send an unmanned probe to the nearest system. I know it would take decades and the data, once the probe arrived, would take 20 years to reach Earth, but if we dedicated a probe to such a trip, how long would it take? Would it be even possible?

I'm a big fan of his Space Odyssey series, but Rendezvous with Rama (1972) is the first book in a series that I just adored.