At first I was thinking, “Stop filming and walk backwards you idiots!” and then realized they were docked. That’s gotta be hectic.
I for one know I’ll never set foot on a cruise ship ever again. After two less-then-stellar Carnival trips when I was younger and the nonstop stories of beaching, “accidental” deaths, and…

Nothing says “poor man” like a cup full of change.

No. 1, get a copy of the fire escape plan, is without a doubt one of the best suggestions for anyone, traveling anywhere, and staying in any hotel.

A set of junky old clothes are easy to store in your vehicle for emergencies. Even if you live in a part of the world that has zero bad weather, if your vehicle breaks down and you have to work under it or in the engine bay you’re probably going to get dirty. Getting back in the car with oily, greasy, or fuel-soaked…

This is an old article/thread, but I’m just now learning about this stuff... Wouldn’t running a LiveUSB O/S be simpler and more secure than one of these local proxy/encryption methods? Plus you get to choose your system and desktop, and even a kernel-based firewall/live-monitor script would have no effect on you. To…

I buy into Louis CK’s suggestion—just rape him. When his butt-buddy Goebbels asks if it’s time to invade Poland, Hitler would rather go cry in the shower.

My biggest issue—the one that had me silently yelling at the screen—was what Watney did after repairing the habitat. Let’s put the habitat’s other problems, like radiation shielding, aside for a moment. If the NASA-built structure suffers a near-catastrophic failure due to a puncture, what are the odds that his…

To be fair, ‘Prometheus’ is more about mythology and alien species than real science. A story about ancient, intergalactic beings playing sandbox-gods of life and death doesn’t hinge on lab-accurate data.

Exactly. We can’t forget this is a film. If it’s not enjoyable for all audiences, it will fail at the box office.

Besides the film industry’s popular re-creation of 60s-era workplace fashion, the idea of a suit-adorned NASA probably derives from them having a majority of the press’s attention. And the public hears more from the administration’s officials than its scientists and engineers.

Not sure why your comment is pending approval, as this is a commonly held view. It’s also an incorrect view. We’ve already learned that experimentation and exploration in space drives human advancement at home, similar to how military research also propagates evolution in everyday technology. It is wrong to limit or…