DAMN YOU JAPAN, DAMN YOU, YOU VICIOUS, HEARTLESS BASTARD OF A COUNTRY! HAVE YOU NO MERCY?! HAVE YOU NO SHAME?!

Well, I'm still waiting for progressive and futurist legislation of a similar nature in WA myself. We got a good start on legalized gay marriage and decriminalized marijuana, how about this too?

I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes of Demonbane. It was too much to bear. The giant robot fight was fun but, once I realized what they did to Al-Azif, I just couldn't take it any more.

Which state is yours? CA, NV or FL?

Actually, since it was Miguel Alcubierre who came up with metric solution, they should be called Alcubierre Drives.

Why can't it be both?

I wasn't aware of number 14 and, now that I am, I applaud it! Really, robot cars can't get here fast enough.

My guess is this is kind of like Inglourious Basterds, a history where Jewish GIs actually manage to kill Hitler. It's just an excuse to go way, way over the top on irredeemably evil bad guys.

I was just going to say this. We have examples of sunglasses going all the way back to 12th century China, then introduced into Italy in 1430. And we dispose with glass, the Inuit had sun goggles well into antiquity.

Agatha Heterodyne's converse to Clarke's Third Law: Any magic sufficiently analyzed is indistinguishable from science.

I don't think it's really the point to force you suddenly dislike well made and fun movies. It's just to get you think about the science behind them and perhaps even to appreciate the things they do right even better.

Clarke's Third Law really shouldn't be a license to stop thinking though. Me, I prefer Agatha Heterodyne's converse to Clarke's Third Law: Any magic sufficiently analyzed is indistinguishable from science.

Yep, that's the favor of paranoia I'm imbibing right now.

Swiftian mode on:

I dig the joke here but I don't believe in cyclic history.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! That's not what I'm saying at all.

Yes, that's by far the most likely explanation.

And the discovery of the atomic nucleus fourteen years by Rutherford, posed a very fundamental problem that only quantum mechanics solve: How to keep the electron from spiraling into the newly discovered nucleus.

Death is actually a very complicated and lengthy continuum of a process.

What I find interesting is the URL in your first link "positiveaction.org" when the full name of the site is "Positive Action for Christ." So why didn't they take positiveactionforchrist.org as a domain name? Too long?