You underestimate the power of 2020

That’s heavy...

This is super weird, I just watched it, and instead of saying ‘Oh La La!’ Marty clearly and loudly exclaimed ‘Maclunkey!’ and then the movie continued as normal.

and use those space-assembled things to do... what, exactly?

I’ll keep the reply short, for those reading along. “What is the point of building a space-faring civilization?” I think the answers to that could fill exabyte hard drives and then some!

Quite the rant for someone without the ability to foresee uses of mining from space.
uses?
1) Launch pads, research vessels, contact with extraterrestrial life.
2) The miners would be robots
3) I stopped reading your rant as I don’t feel any of it is likely valid if you were this perplexed by the first two points.

How long ago did your kids stop asking you to explain how something works?

Don’t feed the troll. His defeatist protestations are not even worth consideration.

If they just want to rename themselves CBS: Star Trek, I would be okay with that.

Ahhhhh-ahh! The fremen water of life. It’s always been celebrated for it’s excellence.

The Price is Right + Unsolved Mysteries + Rescue 911 = the gold standard for staying home sick in the 90s.

Too much unsupervised viewing of Unsolved Mysteries as a kid probably explains a lot of my interest in the macabre.

Whereas I, at 57 and in mourning, am happy to see others doing something that brings them and possibly others joy.

OT, but I have a really shitty beard right now because I haven’t shaved in weeks, but because I’m not a particularly hirsute guy it’s come in patchy and bristly and I look like one of those “anything Muppets” they’d stick random eyes, noses, and hair elements on for crowd scenes in old Sesame Street bits.

Have Beard, Will Riker. 

This is how we get COVID-20.

But you’ll never find Y’all Qaeda. Once they disappear into the garden section of the nearest Home Depot the Rainforest Cafe, they’re invisible.

But you’ll never find Y’all Qaeda. Once they disappear into the garden section of the nearest Home Depot, they’re invisible.

JFC. First it was tiki torches, now it’s Hawaiian shirts.