@FrankenPC: Spoiler: it's actually just a humungous mirror put there by an eccentric billionaire prankster. ;-)

@grimjack28: I think it IS a literal hole, but it's a hole in a higher set of spacial dimensions than the human brain can visualize—in the same way that a circle is a 2D slice of a sphere, and a sphere is a 3D slice of a Hyper-sphere (which I certainly can't visualize!) We can visualize a 3-dimensional pit (length,…

@PistachioWildebeest: What about the viewing angle, though? There should be far more stars blocking our view of our own galactic center, since we see it edge-on. Though farther out, maybe M87 will simply be easier to see because of the lack of obstruction. (Just a guess on my part, but it seems like a reasonable…

@collex: Well, I can see your point; this strikes me as the sort of thing that will be radically different for different people. Everyone takes in and processes visual data differently, so for some this technique works, while for others I guess can see where it would be an incoherent mess. That wasn't my experience,…

@The_Sporean_Bob: Yes, I think if I had done it (Ha! as if I could direct anything bigger than a D&D session) I'd have skipped the "homing in" red graphic swooshes, and maybe had the scene be in black and white with the focus points in color and/or gleaming extra-bright, instead of a terminator/robocop-style…

@collex: I think the intent was to reduce confusion; by highlighting key objects, you intuitively alert the viewer to why that particular kick/punch/whatever occurs at that particular time. At least, that's sort of what it did for me.

@Wookielifeday: Because there are far too many to keep track of them *all*!

Wait... why not just use barely-inflated, nonmetallic air bags? Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing with lower payload weight? I assume, of course, that the vehicle itself would provide enough weight for the bags to enfold & grip rough terrain.

@Steffilarue: You, my friend, are clearly not an executive.

@Agrippa: Maybe, maybe not. There are actually quite a few of these massive, empty construction projects in China:

@diasdiem: YES. The ellipses were the very first thing that jumped out and strangled me. I was going to yell about that myself, but since you got the ball rolling... ;-)

@DouchieSnacks: I really think what we all need is small, modular, cheap solar cells that interlock and overlap in an idiot-proof fashion... in other words, solar cell shingles. If they were the norm, the mass production of them would make the cost of solar installations *vastly* cheaper, and every house in every…

@Ignited_Impulse: Because they're all obsessed with/revolted by penis. Its the same reason why so many commenters couldn't (and still can't) bear any mention the the Watchmen movie without screaming about giant blue schlong... which personally, I noticed the first time it was on screen, and then never really again. …

Huh. I have heard the nucleus this theory before (that the rings are the remnants of a moon) but back then, the thinking was that they were only 100-150 million years old—formed during the time of the dinosaurs. Apparently new evidence suggests a *much* older origin?

@phoghat: But wouldn't it be weird for the android line to look massively older in a prequel?

@evildead1971: I remember kinda' hating most of the Tom Bombadil sequence whenever I read the book, so I always considered its omission to be not only necessary given the limited running time of a film, but also an improvement overall.

@kidentropia: That hardly qualifies as "every movie she's ever been in".... her filmography lists 47 titles!

@Alluvian_Est-Endrati: The thing I've never grasped about the Nemesis theory is... if it's a red or brown dwarf, even given the brain-bendingly huge distance, shouldn't our IR telescopes be able to spot it? I mean, it would be a moving (low-grade) *star*, for Pete's sake. It will be *very* hot compared to its…

@Lauren Shaw: I'm not sure you're entirely grasping how far away 30,000 AU is (to be fair, neither am I—it's way beyond the point that the human brain just categorizes it as "a whole bunch". ) But Voyager 1, launched in 1977, had made it as far as 114.3 AU as of August this year.

@corpore-metal: Even as a 7-year-old, Ultraman pissed me off. Every fight was 5 minutes of Ultraman gettting the snot pounded out of him, followed by him pulling out some kind of ridiculous super-death-attack-thingy once the light in his chest started flashing. And even as a very young boy, all I could think was…