That's true.

I agree with this assessment.

I'm just giggling to myself, trying to imagine the tabloid headlines...

I know the UK one is a joke. It was a joke, right?

I first read IT around '87, and IT remains one of my favorite books of all time.

What the others said. It's symbolic magic.

I wasn't expecting an instant masterpiece, but I thought a half-decent movie might not be too much to hope for. In the end I was honestly amazed by just how awful Prometheus was.

I completely agree.

As stereodax says, they've got no idea what the carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratio was in the Engineer's environment when he was alive, so it's impossible to date the sample.

I saw it last week - I certainly didn't seek out every last piece of released footage, but I'd seen the trailers and various extracts.

Sadly, I agree. I was genuinely surprised by just how bad it turned out to be.

Yep. Out of seven films, I like two, and found the rest completely awful in their own unique ways.

Since buying the BluRay set, I've watched Alien countless times, Aliens nearly as many, Alien 3 once (out of curiosity for the extended version, and to listen to the interviews with people discussing how it all went so badly wrong), and I didn't make it through all of Resurrection.

Well for me it would be:

I like the first two equally, but in entirely different ways. However, I refuse to even acknowledge the existence of anything after Aliens.

Yeah, I was going to vote "hell, no" but I changed my mind and went for "what people see is real, etc."

It's not so much the presence of a device, as the existence of a spacetime which permits particles to follow trajectories returning to their original event-point without ever locally exceeding the speed of light. Those hypothetical devices are simply arrangements of matter that create a spacetime with that desired…

I think that one point raised in Charlie's article is particularly important:

I've heard various estimates on how far Earth's leaked radio propagates.

That's true.