One thing people tend to forget about alternate histories: you wouldn’t exist if the South won the Civil War. Neither would I. Neither would your parents, or almost certainly their parents.

Good luck with that truck-driving job in a few years when self-driving tractor-trailer trucks and delivery drones get perfected. Automation is going to destroy every job that people without college degrees can do to earn a living. And even many of the ones that do require degrees. Every. Job. It’s only a matter of…

When that “one extremist” is the Vice President and President of the Senate (the only person who is Constitutionally a member of two of the three Branches of the Government) and who is just one heartbeat (or impeachment or resignation) away from the Oval Office, I think it’s quite fair to apply his views to a…

Part of the appeal of a giant asteroid (not “meteor”) hitting the Earth and wiping out civilization if not humanity itself or even all life is that at least such a thing wouldn’t be our own fault, like the impending firing of the clathrate gun will be.

I wonder how many people here will understand that reference?

I used to mishear that as, “Make a law-yer tell the truuuuuth!”

But does he talk like Ringo Starr?

Due to a Disqus glitch, when you use the “@” technique to refer to someone such as @avclub-85af7dbb0532ca29713840ae3711fa89:disqus, you have to Edit your post and the save the edit (even if you don’t change anything) for it to appear correctly. Otherwise it just sticks “:disqus” on the name.

Anyone else here who was also into the best SF TV series of the 1990s, namely, Babylon 5?

Says the guy who could have two legs amputated and still have a leg to stand on.