That's still complete destruction of the human body. I would have preferred "Wormhole bending space-time to connect two points allowing seamless travel without destruction." Oh well.

Rosie, of course, deserved to be shut down. She was last seen in "Bender's Game" at the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots, saying, "Everything must be clean. Very clean. That's why the dog had to die. He was a dirty dog. Also that boy Elroy. Dirty. Dirty."

Yes, Starcraft would be awesome. Don't forget about Tychus, Jimmy...

Oh man what I would do for a StarCraft movie focusing on Jim Raynor. He was Malcolm Reynolds before Malcolm Reynolds was Malcolm Reynolds.

They're both awesome universes, so either or for me.

It's things like this that make me excited to live in this time.

Burying your hoard was common in those days. There wasn't a bank or something you could keep your wealth, especially as a raider. You would bury your wealth around and then you or your family would retrieve it later. Frequently everyone who knew about the hoard would die in anything from disease, war, or shipwreck.…

Movie studios keep that information hidden on purpose. If they give you the exact details, they can't manipulate the earnings and give the bonuses they were going to give to the actors and the writers, etc. Remember that inventive piece of accounting where producers tried to show how Harry Potter 5 lost over $150…

Actually, higher altitude tends to mean a lower speed of sound. At cruising altitude for most commercial jets (10,000 - 20,000m), the speed of sound is closer to 650mph (it's 750 near sea level).

Careful there, your rabid homophobia is showing.

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I'd say two kinds of time travel do make sense in that they avoid paradoxes: stories where the timeline is completely fixed and unchangeable (respecting the Novikov self-consistency principle mentioned in the article), and stories where each trip to the past creates a new alternate history that began to diverge from…

Totally lost it when *SPOILERS AHEAD!*




... the helium miners responded to Leela in helium high pitched voice!

"Truly superior beings like Dr. Manhattan would become simply indifferent to ordinary humans."

Carl Weathers via Arrested Development. :)

Add some fish stock and a few potatoes... baby, you got a stew goin.

This. The upside of such a system is that a particularly virtuous lord could do a lot of good quickly and easily, the downside, is that a lord that was a total bastard could kill a lot of people and the only way to remove him would be a pitchfork bearing mob that usually ended up being just as bad as the lord. That is…

That clip also reminded me why Jack O'Neill is one of my favorite (if not the favorite) fictional characters of all time.

I don't know. A lot of those nearly worked out for Ba'al.

I've got five to one odds on SpaceX.