No, social outcasts have trouble talking to girls. So instead of manning up and risking rejection or mockery, many of them build up an unhealthy image of women from afar as trophies or possessions or something to place on a pedestal. Then when the fact that women are, y'know, human beings finally hits them right in…

J. Michael Straczynski said when he was shopping around his script for "The Changeling", he had to include his historical research (mostly newspaper clippings and court records from the time) because producers kept saying, "there's no way this happened!"

If Hybrid Air Vehicles' protoype pans out, it will apparently carry 50 tonnes: http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/08/31/nwt-aviation-company-plans-for-fleet-of-futuristic-blimps-to-haul-cargo/

David Brin talks about this a lot: http://www.davidbrin.com/transparency.html

More weight for less fuel.

If they can ever sort out blimps/airships for cargo-hauling duty, I think those would help a lot too.

Also, while I'm not suggesting pre-modern humans/Neanderthals/etc. didn't have any notion of prejudice, I don't think we can assume they'd have the same prejudices we do. Different historical cultures at different times didn't have the same attitudes towards skin colour, sexual orientation or mental…

Harry Houdini got into the spiritual debunking business precisely because there are unscrupulous people who will prey upon others' need for comfort and hope. And, to be fair, there are well-meaning people who do the same with no notion of the consequences.

That's not entirely fair—without the success of Fox's first two X-Men films, there might not have been a Geek Culture Renaissance in the first place.

I'm going to read the book and see if it gets me excited for the film.

I reckon the sharks feel differently:

I'm both flattered and embarrassed to be quoted here. I actually ended up liking Total Recall a whole lot more than I thought I would. I realized pretty early on the plot and setting were really silly, and that let me enjoy it solely as an action film, where it really delivered. I think it was one of the better action…

The space shuttle orbiter weighed 100 tonnes and landed everytime without power.

I loved that show as a kid. But somehow I think the concept was always better than the execution.

I'm rooting for Chiwetel Ejiofor, myself.

I don't really blame them for that. The first book was out-of-date a few years after it was published.

There's actually no conclusive evidence artificial sweeteners are bad for you.

I am totally cool with Len Wiseman as anybody's second-unit director as long as someone else is charge.

It took a while for those immigrants' kids to become teenagers, and for previous immigrants' kids to go through the school systems and learn the languages.

China makes it mobile: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm