Avoiding zebra crossings for a while.

Yes.

Well, that's an interesting resonance then. For literary reference purpose, compare with Gen 3:22-24 (I won't quote it here, and it's typical of other legendarium from the region in any case), the summation being: "Crap. They're aware. Give 'em the boot before they become immortal like us."

More to the point, why would anyone bother picking a fight? It's clearly more trouble than it's worth.

"Prometheus; or, The Post-Modern Frankenstein."

If we're lucky, they're bureaucrats on a survey mission.

Was Clive Barker the art director on this one?

There are those who believe, life began...out there...

And you will. As will I. As will so many others. And so it goes...

90% of everything, baby!

"Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse... but you take a boat in the air that you don't love... she'll shake you off just as sure as the turn of the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she keels. Makes her a home. "

Well yeah, but Florida's hosed anyway. And Illinois will come around when the slaughterhouse carcasses rise up...

Shotgun, yes. 00 buck? No. Chain shot. THAT'S how you break dem bones.

Sorry, only two of the options on this list—PR and DC—are anything short of truly tortured pipe dreams. NYC doesn't care enough to become its own state. Cuba would require annexing the territory of a hostile, SOVEREIGN nation. And as for the UK, I can only assume someone's been watching 'Americathon' recently.

Cancer or no, you're putting smoke from burning plant matter in your lungs. Hemp or tobacco, I fail to see how that can be anything but bad for the lungs...

When someone can explain to me a good reason why an alien attack on Earth does not begin and end with either (a) "Alien space plague wipes out humanity, kthxbai" or (b) "Rocks fall, everybody dies", I'll worry about contingency plans for it.

Smack them for me. Avatar was 'John Carter' with blue space furries.

There is, of course, the possibility that the two World Wars actually represent an -improvement- over whatever may have been before.

Shepherd worlds. Nice.

He wasn't far off on predicting Internet forums, either. If only we had his credibility ratings instead of 'like' buttons...