Loki is Data

Only one cut, sure, as that’s how the metal gets inside you.

I’ll be happy if May takes up power tools again:

Why is it that in my head I can picture this, but Hunter is also there, and rather than holding a gun, he is drunkenly pissing all over Ward’s head?

Budget Magneto!

Current artifical diamond production comes in two basic forms, HPHT (High Pressure, High Temp) where diamonds are made on an anvil, using a diamond seed encased in a pure carbon material of some sort. It’s then all heated to about 1500c and subjected to a pressure of around 5Gpa, and there it sits as the seed…

Moments after bidding farewell to our beloved leader I found myself next to a sea lion who spoke to the state of my soul:

Reading this, I kept thinking of that scene from The Martian where he cuts open the bag of “Human Fertilizer” and exclaims “Ugh, Johanssen!”

Interesting....I was the on-shift Flight Director in the Mission Control Center at the time. This event happened on my very first shift as a Flight Director. For new Flight Directors, your first shift is a Planning Shift...supposedly an easy shift with just re-planning responsibilities for the flight and no real-time…

Chuck.

My first thought was “But the enemy’s gate is down.” :)

Tanaga Island is one my favorite places. In 2004-06 I spent time there, during the summers, doing biological field work for the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The scenery, when not fogged in or blowing rain sideways as is the norm, is as amazing the pictures in this article show.

You fools, he looks at a Weeping Angel becomes a Weeping Angel. You’ve doomed us all.

Also this line: “Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”

Toby Whithouse was show-runner on Being Human while also writing a large number of the episodes for it. He’s proven he has the ability to do so so why not give him the job?

A real botanist - a real scientist - who successfully grows potatoes on another planet “where nothing grows” would take a sample or two of those desiccated spuds home for the sake of science - at all costs, even if he had to hack off some toes to compensate for the weight

“My name is Saul Tigh. I’m an officer in the Colonial Fleet. Whatever else I am, whatever else it means, that’s the man I want to be. And if I die today, that’s the man I’ll be. “

No, they remain an empirical evidence factory. If empirical evidence doesn’t happen to mesh with your politics, one of those should adjust.