@prufrocker: And thus your delusions of uniqueness were crashed...

The first one looks like the newest toy craze waiting to happen.

They don't seem to behave that much differently then humans. Just trying to grab something.

@The Glieb: The imsect problem are the tube system they use to breathe. This would let the vacuum into their bodies and unprotected cells and that wouldn't end well. Respiration has always been the week spot of insect design.

This is not really surprising. Plant cells have cell wall that animal cells lack. It protects from evaporation of water much more efficiently. However, I don't think it can help human survival in vacuum in any way.

At least we can all agree when that will be no matter how we write dates. I suppose it is ominous when whatever measuring system US uses becomes compatible with the rest of the world. Fear that day!

@jameslacroix: It's probably because some people have several phones. It counts subscriptions not people who have cell phones.

I'm surprised by the lack of Mad Max and the whole post-apocalyptic genre. It was pretty big in the '80. I think most people still imagine the post-apocalyptic world in the 80s aesthetics - from clothes to desert wandering.

@VolumePlus: There's a version linked below in the comments

@ringer81: Thank you. It's my wallpaper now :)

@Bruce Landwaster: Intuitive. Much easier to reconstruct as a temperature scale then bizarrely random gradation between some salt water slush freezing and his wife body temperature. Even taking under consideration differences due to air pressure you still have the close enough results.

@HidingInCanada: I think it's just temperature now or whenever this was filmed. The coldest month in Northern hemisphere is January and wikipedia says the mean temperature then is - 46C. Coldest recorded however was - 67.7C ([en.wikipedia.org] . I think Toronto still has a way to go :P

@Bruce Landwaster: Celsius is much more intuitive. Especially since 0 is water freezing temperature. If it's freezing then the temperature is below 0 if not it's above.

@original_fehu: Thank you. We can argue about the man part but we can all agree - definitely not an insect.

@space is art: Right now the Gulf stream still works normally. The weather problems come from excess energy in atmosphere that discharge in violent events like sudden storms, torrent rains and more temperature changes (hotter or colder weather then usually). And that's just the beginning of global warming effects.

@nctrns: You are right that the further you get from Atlantic the more continental the weather and the colder the winters get but I meant European parts of Russia not Syberia. Moscow in winter is warmer then Fargo and just little bit colder then Chicago. Or if you prefer the most continental parts of Europe are still…

@nctrns: Winters in places like Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and most of Canada are worse then the ones in Russia. It got bad rep because it was described by people who think any snow is disaster and any temperatures below freezing are extremely cold. Europe generally is warmer then other places of similar…

I could never get to Potter books because I felt there was too many similarities to my favourite childhood book - Astrid Lindgren "Mio, My Mio". It's a bout a boy raised by awful foster parents who finds a secret message that takes him to magical world which he has to save from evil. And the whole story takes just one…

@Mandre: It's one of my favourite series ever. It's very dystopian. It's both sf and noir detective story. It got universe hopping and strange guardians before Fringe was even an idea. And it was set in South Africa before that setting become popular. Love it.

I'm just in the middle of reading Robert sawyer's WWW: Wake. The main hero goes through almost identical procedure. Eerie.