I figured it for evenings, 'The O'R'lyeh Factor'...

So, I can stand down on my "R'Lyeh Rising Alert"?

What.

Just repeat after me: The science is never settled. Only the dogma.

The term I would use is 'reversion to the mean'. Fixed, stable jobs like you cite are a relatively modern innovation—indeed, being only a couple of days' work away from disaster was largely the norm for much of human history (and still is, in many places) without high technology being part of the equation.

So, JJ Abrams read 'Dies the Fire'?

So, we know China's version of Florida now?

Nothing to do with the statistics of the science. (I was surprised the abortion bit came up, due to the firestorm surrounding the unfortunate implications of the underlying statistics. Frankly I kind of dismiss it as arguing from counterfactuals, but I suppose we'll never actually know...)

It was also frequently blamed as a culprit in Rome's decline. There may be something to that.

...and honestly, colonizing Mars sounds like a very Howard Hughes thing to do...so it still works...

And leaps and bounds better than NBC Olympic broadcasters!

Alaska's the same way. It would probably bear even more of a resemblance to Nunavut than it already does if it wasn't for the oil fields, and if that ever gets shut off through politics or depletion, it would likely wind up identical.

Just have it back by Friday. Weekend rental charges on the thing are awful.

Too true, sadly. Considering how many people were actively trying to make it fail, I wonder if anyone could have made it work.

This is even better than the twitpic I put on the previous thread! Huzzah again!

You want to keep the horrors of WWII out while not making something worse? Go back to WWI and talk the French out of the ridiculously vindictive terms they imposed.

They even got pics of it on the way down from another craft that was there. Huzzah!

I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.

"Hello, studios? Remember how the Internet punked us a few years back? Well, I have this idea to get back at them..."