Alternate interpretation:

Everything in this comment seems fine until this:

My first responsibility is my children's health and happiness (until it becomes their own); my first love is my wife (and that is constant).

While the astronaut left behind on Earth might be proud of his "copy," I imagine the astronaut in space with no body might feel less than honored when comparing his situation to his copy's back on Earth who can still physically interact with the world.

One pound of high explosives?

Sometimes I like to imagine that a super-powerful AI has already emerged within the baroque trading algorithms of the big financial institutions and is simply moving people around in what it perceives to be a funny game - slightly altering the return on investment on certain activities to make humans behave in…

Having 500K in total assets is not problematic, but being able to liquidate those assets for the cash value is not always so easy - I question the assertion that millions own that much in assets without offsetting debts/obligations. That really was the heart of our latest financial crisis in a nutshell, after all.

Problem 1 (of millions): Almost nobody can afford that $500K house without a mortgage. I'm guessing - just a hunch really - but I don't see banks lining up to loan people the $500K to take a rocket to a planet that in its natural state isn't very hospitable to human life. There's just no way that's getting past the…

So you missed all the solid reasoning and evidence that backed up the author's claim because you "tuned out" and then feel justified in saying that she's making a "BS argument"? Seems legit to me.

This is an easy one - we geeks are all citizen scientists doing our part in the never-ending quest for (carnal) knowledge.

http://shiniez.deviantart.com/gallery/35675685 (found it by checking the image name)

If only "extended laser sword fighting scenes and space ship battles" translated into "good laser sword fighting scenes and space ship battles". The next director should be strapped to a chair Clockwork-Orange style and forced to watch the trench run from episode IV and the lightsaber battle from episode V until they…

Isn't there a flashback scene in Neuromancer in which Molly Millions recalls how she once woke up from her employer-induced blackout (she was selling her body to pay for implants) and found herself in a weird snuff scenario? Didn't that scenario involve her using her cybernetic claws to cut up another girl for the…

Tribute? I saw it as a mockery - which makes it hard to watch the exact same plot played straight.

No kidding - it's hard not to think about the message of Cabin in the Woods about horror movies/audiences/tropes while watching this.

If we're going to talk video games, Longest Journey 2/Dreamfall 2 needs to happen someday (it's been at least a decade since the last game ended in a cliffhanger). I need to know what happened to April Ryan and (more importantly) Crow!

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That anecdote wasn't an accident - it was a heartless attempt to "unhinge" Ryan's opponent (i.e., to make him "grumpy angry" rather than "bemused angry"). Even knowing who was talking, my jaw hit the floor on that one.

Okay - so who wants to match the Whedon regulars to these descriptions? I'm guessing that 70-80% of the main actors will have appeared on Firefly/Dollhouse/Angel/Buffy.

I saw this movie for the first time perhaps 20 years ago and it is awesome - every time Inigo finally corners Count Rugen my eyes start watering (of course, I get misty during the story's opening narration and Wesley's "as you wishes"). The book is awesome, too - although Buttercup's characterization threw me for a…