Evolution doesn't work like that. It doesn't just happen on its own... traits only become standard if they provide a big enough reproductive & survival boost. That's the reason sharks haven't changed in millions of years... no minor adaptation they can make will affect their odds very much. They're not the most…

@Dr. Nemmo: In fact, I recall seeing something about that on the Science Channel once. They said that the main fuel tank of the space shuttle is the equivalent of a dress-shirt-button sized pellet of antimatter. Granted, you'd need a much larger device than that to contain the fuel, but we're still talking…

Ugh.

@Feyhra: Sure, if you want to just go ahead and *guarantee* the Mars Riots and Independence War of 2150. ;-)

Just to be pedantic... the weird need to add "punk" to then end of every technology ever has always bugged me, because it's so vapid and unthinking for a group of people who claim to be intelligent and thoughtful (i.e. sci-fi fans). CyberPunk was so called because it was about street punks (complete with the…

@hercules_100_98: Exactly. Caprica had a wealth of interesting ideas, but no interesting people to explore them through. And every, every, *every* character was so deeply flawed (if not downright horrible) that there was also no one to root for or empathize with. These weren't just "complex people with complex…

@csanders984: Not the only bad one. Remember the whole Nikki/Paolo fiasco?

@Burke: "* Wild Wild West: WHY?????????? "

Maybe a case of Decimation? By which I mean, the practice of executing 1 in 10 soldiers of a company that fled the field of battle? Perhaps they would still be given "proper" military burial in deference to past service, or simply because the executions were more of less random and any given victim might not have…

@ElimGarak: Repeat after me: "it's only a comedy. It's only a comedy. It's only a comedy..." ;-) Seriously, yes the triangular disk is ridiculous. I think that was kind of the whole *point* of it.

@ElimGarak: "Creating a triangular floppy is idiotic..."

@crashfrog: I think DiExMachina's point is really that getting sick is essentially the same, in the end, as getting a vaccine... and it applies to lots of things that we don't have vaccines for yet. The human immune system is reactive, so the more you're exposed to the more you become resistant to... assuming, of…

@PonishLoaf: Regardless, didn't Ra's say in Batman Begins that it's more a title than a name—there's always a Ra's Al Ghul, regardless of who actually fills the role? I seem to recall that, and if I'm not completely making it up, then that's a perfectly real-world way to bring back the villain... as someone else…

@johhnytrash: It was purty.

@balkaster: Agreed, though I'm OK with at least some of the "hour-long adventure sitcoms". SciFi channel is dead... Syfy is really just a "schlock reality shows plus z-grade monster flicks" station now. I'd rather watch reruns of good series than watch yet another incarnation of "humungous snake movie part 16", or…

@CrustyJoe: No kidding. I'm always amazed at how TV execs can be so puzzled by the lack of viewership when they put a show on hiatus for 6 months in the middle of the season. You don't build the kind of loyalty that will keep people waiting for half a year, by showing only the first few episodes. Most shows don't…

@linworthnewt: Um... no. Earth is the name of our planet. We do not like on "Planet". Sort of like how Mars is the name of the next one over. There are (officially) 8 planets in our solar system alone, and only 1 of them is called an "Earth". ;-)

@edicius: I agree. Generally speaking I haven't really like Trek all that much; I did like Enterprise, for the most part (like any series it definitely had its flaws). Trek is usually too naively optimistic about The Nobility Of Humanity for my taste, but Enterprise wasn't afraid to make its protagonists flawed and…

@trunk_monkey_ChimChim: answer: money. Well, money and skepticism; a real show costs lots more, and might not rake in much of anything.

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