@Cory Gross: Well, they werent really "assumptions" per se, but since you assumed they were, then "why not"?

@Purple Umpteenth - Zombie Dolpharktopus: I'm fine with an ever-existent creator... he(it) just didn't write a book explaing how he(it) blinked it all into existence 5000 years ago, and he(it) certainly doesn't walk with us or talk with us, because he(it) is certainly on an entirely different plane of existence (if…

@chadbeckwith: lol, I'm not worried though - I (plus all living things on this planet, and even our entire solar system) will be long dead and forgotten before he gets around to eating my remains.

As discussed in a post last week about out entire universe existing within a black hole, if we approached a singularity, and could survive the tremendous forces trying to pull us apart and simultaneously crush us, "the increasing gravitational field makes time tick slower and slower. So, for an external observer, any…

White holes do exist and Lara Flyn Boyle will testify to that fact.

Smiley face, cool face, crazy face, or mix it all up randomly... whatever, all that matters is that nobody can read your expression and that you have no tells. The pros seem to do okay with the expressionless face, so I would probably emulate them unless you have exceptional endurance in your face muscles.

@prometeum: I had actually thought about including her on my list, but didn't think Hackers and Sky Captian was enough to cast her as a sci-fi actress, of course Lara Croft is sort of sci-tech, and she's been a CG character a couple of times I think - I'd give her the title duchess of action.

@Fierock: Or Uma, Drew Barrymore, Sean Young, Linda Hamilton, Carrie Fischer, Summer Glau, Charlize, Marina Sirtis, I'm sure there are a few other other candidates but none stand out since female actresses rarely get typecast for sci-fi.

Even though Weaver has done some voiceover work as ship computers, she's no Majel Barrett-Roddenbery.

My electric crepe maker, kinda like this one.

@theblazeuk: I agree, amazing sculpting... is it original or are there already "pop culture references" it is based on?

These comments are hilar - ALL GLORY TO THE THE HYPNOTOAD

@icelight: true, I didn't really give it much thought and just assumed all the heat was from conductive resistance...but perhaps a perfectly efficient superconductive semi-conductor would switch between states with losses? (ps aside from some basic electricity I'm not really equipped for a discussion about…

@Polymath: apropos

@rhmoon: huh? If all the electronics were made from superconducting material, the "processing" and "data/reading" (ie electron flow) would produce no heat. Like what Dr. Emilio Lizardo said.

@LawProdigy: I understand that its dirty work, but that's the business. My friends used to go off-roading and when they pulled into a wash bay afterwards the attendants would often run out and tell them to PFO in not so polite terms... so what's the rule, only cars that are a "little bit" dirty are allowed to be…

@SnakeMXIM: Growing up in British Columbia and Manitoba I had only seen the self-service ones or else automatic ones but they usually only have a single attendant to maintain things and is often not even full time. Occasionally some groups will do a fundraiser and set up at a gas station, and there are also auto…

My goal when I adjust my compensation or choose my spot metering sample is to expose correctly, and if the lighting is adequate I leave room for error on the overexposed side. It's true that signal/noise ratio may become an issue in low light but if I'm trying to capture dramatic skies or if the light is low and I'm…

@Fierock: err, correction, when I first compared I was looking at the AF-S version of the f/1.4... using the correct data set (the Nikkor AF 50mm 1:1.4) reveals that at f/1.8 the f/1.8 lens is slightly better the f/1.4 lens... and then the further they are stopped down the f/1.4 lens gets slightly better than the…

@KeineLust90: well I followed your advise and looked up the data on these lenses from dpreview and discovered that indeed the f/1.4 is better ALL ACROSS THE BOARD...in both sharpness and CA (note that when wide open of course the f/1.8 lens is better than the f/1.4 lens, but stopped the f/1.8 the f/1.4 lens is…