"Maybe I'm just the most naïve cynic on the internet."

What happened before the big bang?

Yeah, but lots of people watch Jersey Shore, too.

Yeah, I think I'd just exercise a modicum of self-restraint and pocket the $10k, thanks. I can only see using something like this if I was a trauma surgeon or something (in which case the $10k might be a pittance compared to my malpractice insurance and other required expenses!)

Space Twister: Oh, Jo... say it ain't so! (No, seriously, someone please tell me that this abominable thing is just a hoax, regardless of who's in it. Please?)

"Director Takashi Shimizu previously made seven of the Grudge movies"

"And to answer your question? The mass transit I rode to work today."

"Space is to important a place to sully it with private industry. "

Dude, as long as Cameron is pushing the state of things forward, he can be as egomaniacal as he wants. At least he's getting things done that no one else is bothering with.

"I can hear all the Wheadonites practicing this mantra in preparation for the possibility that the movie bombs."

Huh... so people who are less inhibited are less likely to enforce moderation upon themselves. Gee, who'da thunk it?

Hey, now, be fair... it could be on the bridge of her nose, instead. If they *really* go crazy, maybe even both!

"who is this video supposed to be for?"

"In a world... where studios actually make big-budget blockbusters out of *frakkin' board games*... one vaguely original sci-fi movie... fails to make the grade."

There's at least one probe already out there running on ion engines. It's currently the fastest man-made object in history, even though its engines only produce thrust equivalent to the weight of a sheet of paper in Earth's gravity. (ion engines' thrust is extremely low, but fuel efficiency is crazy—so they can just…

Also @ wi3leong: but it was massively successful, and therefor clearly enjoyed by a great many people. But, like Alien, there were (plenty of) people who hated it at its release. You two are examples of that group.

Looking at that pic, I like to imagine that the T-800 is frozen in mortified shock at having his bad-ass photo ruined in such a humiliating fashion.

This sounds like an issue of semantics to me. You're using "dark matter" the way some people use "UFO". "Dark Matter" doesn't necessarily refer to something new and exotic that we have never detected before—it's just "stuff we can't see right now, for whatever reason" in the same sense that a UFO could be a leaf on…

It's very, very far away. The star isn't "old" (it's probably already gone) as much as it is "in the distant past." Remember, due to the speed of light, anything we see that 13 billion light years away is, by definition, 13 billion years old relative to our time here on earth. Since it would take the light that we…

"The bigger problem is that if the storyline were less 'convenient' in its development, she might have been confronted with more scenarios where she would have to put her values to the test. "