Well, it's a low-budget film about a small team of people in an isolated location, so I'm betting it will be a one-way mission anyway regardless of what the financiers might have intended. That's just how these things always work out in such films. ;-)

Dude, are you seriously saying that this sort of bandwidth will NEVER happen? How about 1000 years from now?

Bubble the exhaust from a coal plant through some water. Most of the particulate matter will be captured and can be put back into the emptied coal pits as a slurry. You can even start out with waste water rather than fresh water, and just make it "wastier".

Yeah, and this article fails to mention that it's much easier (and cheaper) to put physical pollution controls in place on a few thousand power plants than it is to put them in place on several million vehicles. China just doesn't do much to regulate the emissions from their coal—burning plants, or at least they…

YES. I was just scanning through to see if anyone else had already beaten me to that exact comment.

Yeah, really. LOTR color-keyed pretty much every frame of the film... it's relatively easy to change the color of anything in post.

Huh. So Tron is going all Batman Beyond? Could go either way, I guess.

Ugh, "evil emperors." Must proofread before posting. And why are my paragraph breaks gone?Those things are important, dammit! ;-)

Star wars.

Wait, why would L2 be a "potentially ideal" jumping-off point? Wouldn't L1 be better—closer, direct-line communication to earth with not humungous rock-ball in the way, and faster/cheaper to reach from the ground via rocket launch?

image caption: A group of army green creatures crawl out of the debris. Are these the members of Loki's mysterious army?

re: Avatar: I doubt they had nukes. Most people seem to forget that the security force was just a very well-armed set of mercenaries, not the actual official armed services. They were private company employees, and I doubt that a private industry would be allowed to field thermonuclear weapons—especially from orbit.

I could totally see Spirograph as something akin to "A Beautiful Mind". Or maybe "Pi".

Well that's fine in theory, but I'm glad I didn't have to live through the resulting Mad Max-style apocalypse (OK, more like "2nd great depression", but still) that a complete collapse of the biggest banks would have caused. Combined the top 3 controlled something like 15% of the nation's net worth (not a quote,…

Alasdair, I think you grossly underestimate the resilience of the common Black Flap.

I've long thought that the whole bit about Palpatine telling Anakin that the Jedi are corrupt should have come in the very early part of EP3, and we should have seen Anakin being scorned, insulted, and generally mistreated by certain antagonistic Jedi... then, through the course of the film, Palpatine sends him on…

I'm fine with Vader being Luke's father, it's just the redemption that shouldn't have been there. Luke should have, in the end, been forced to murder his own (black-hearted, evil, irredeemable) father for the good of the galaxy and because it was the right thing to do, and been forever changed—saddened, and made less…

I hate autotune so much. Let talentless hacks be exposed as talentless hacks, dammit!

Fair enough. I've never gotten the appeal of Dr. Who, myself. It always strikes me as "adequate".

Robert Zubrin. Comes off as a bit of a zealot, but he makes some good (and well-supported) arguments if you stop to listen to/read him.