1. A big screen Doctor Who?

The first Terminator film looks to me like an excellent example of a stable time loop.

It doesn't bother me because... well, reality is what it is. Of course I'm made of matter, processing information according to the laws of physics. My neurons fire once they reach their action potentials. How else could things possibly be? The subjective experience is sometimes pleasant. That has to be enough.

"...Timecop...."

I hope I'm not butting in, but this is a subject in which I have always been interested. I'd just like to add that I don't believe in free will either. I don't really think it's a meaningful concept.

Yeah, that's true. And of course I haven't seen it, so I should reserve judgement. It's just that I suspect that I will find, as I do in many films like this, there to be a jarring dichotomy between the seriousness of the drama and the illogic of the premise. If I was watching a character study of the last days of…

I'd be a lot more interested in Melancholia if it made any effort at scientific accuracy. This review observes that "the concrete aspects of Melancholia are so laughably bad that they make Michael Bay's breaking of similar natural laws seem reasonable by comparison."

Depends what it's made of. If the pressure at the mountain's base exceeds the strength of atomic bonding in the crust material then it liquifies and flows, the mountain's top sinks by an equivalent amount and loses gravitational potential energy, so there's a nifty approximation using the work done to liquify a volume…

Well said. There are a lot of movies I really like that were made for peanuts, especially in Hollywood terms. They are often devoid of any special effects and big name stars. They do, however, have smart scripts, and are usually made as a labor of love - they are actual acts of creativity, rather than bland products…

Perhaps it smells like moondust?

On the bright side, the path is quite easy to find - sweeping just under the Summer Triangle and right past Altair.

I gather from The Movies that asteroids sound very much like Star Destroyers. It's a sort of deep, ominous rumble.

They wouldn't be bored - there would be screams and hysterical tears, judging from their reactions to the far tamer things we watched with them around.

Hey, I had that book when I was a kid!

Yeah, that's groovy.

What rhmoon said. For instance, the same basic sciences don't underpin the functions of modern and 19th century telephones!

There is a gravitational analog to electromagnetism, which Gravity Probe B was designed to test.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with Season 6. I enjoyed it.

*That* is your biggest gripe?

Yes, of course - but for it to be a paradox you have to assume that the statements are semantically closed. What you've done is move to a higher semantic level (rather like Achilles and the Tortoise taking popping tonic).