I'm now convinced you have evidence that da Vinci was a time traveler who once visited the Cambrian!

That's a really good question.

I am utterly baffled to learn that anyone might have thought the future robots were random aliens.

Yes, quite. There are many things I simply choose to ignore.

Depends how big it is. A black hole the size of a proton is going to have a hard time eating anything, so even at 60mph it'd sail through the Earth like it was passing through vacuum, and if there's any addition to its mass it would be insignificant.

They'd have to be really tiny for the evaporation time to be under a second - a couple of thousand tons.

Ooops. We had the same thought, but I didn't see your post before I left mine.

It's only a matter of Time.

... especially when facing a Rodent of Unusual Size.

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Oh, I completely agree with you. I mean, I know the theory, I've just never had the opportunity to examine a specimen in the field.

I agree with you, of course.

I have to admit, we did have a lot of fun watching Laserblast!

The few of these I've seen are shockingly bad.

I've never actually met a creationist - not to my knowledge, at least, although I suppose it's possible I have and they kept it very quiet. But even the number of religious people I've ever known is very small (even if I think all the way back to high school, there were half a dozen at most in a year of a hundred…

The density of the interstellar medium varies quite significantly. 1 hydrogen atom per cubic centimeter is a good estimate for back-of-the-envelope calculations, but it can be several orders of magnitude higher than that. And of course there are nebulae which are relatively thick with gas and dust.

That's pretty much why my best friend got such a kick out of it! She loved the smart crypto-narrative, but pure swords and sorcery is great fun in itself; put the two together and you've got a winner.

Yep. A particularly sneaky bit is when the mayor with the zippo lighter is brought in to see Baby Doll dance. He's this loathsome, lecherous, decadent character, who pays to comes into a darkened room with the sole intent of watching scantily clad women perform routines for his entertainment.

All my friends and I all thought Sucker Punch was one hell of a good movie, by far the smartest fantasy film any of us had seen in a very long time, and it was a delight to see something with so much thought in a genre which is usually pretty straightforward - not that there's anything wrong with straightforward, but…

This.