Maybe self-driving cars are what we need for their to be flying cars. I hate to think of how badly flying cars would be driven by most of the people I know.

You really don’t know this? It’s not a secret and was widely reported at the time. It was intended as a show that was to appeal to parents and teens, but took off as a music sales juggernaut with younger viewers and the format of the show changed to reflect this.

That wasn’t the group buying the downloads though—it was the tween/teen audience. The reason that we saw so much of Darren Crist is because he was a huge hit with young teen girls. After all, it wasn’t the original recordings that were selling—it was modern-day *covers*—boomers and Gen Xers don’t bother buying…

Oh, yes—the first half season is weird and sort of brilliant—and dark. Glee was ruined by its popularity with the tween crowd—the show became less dark, more wish-fulfillment, more teen-centered and focused on making musical hits.

This is like my Pinterest list of places I want to go. Except the cave of crystals—it’s totally awesome, but insanely hot—150 degrees F.

More like Raven mail—raven couriers are a big deal in the books, not so much in the show. That said, yes, dragons would have a nice landing pad.

Yes, *eventually*. Meantime, the Eyrie’s well-armed and in a good position to make life hard for a siege army below. The other thing is that part of the Vale can be cut off pretty easily since getting there is through a narrow series of passes—so an army could be trapped in there. So the Vale also has some natural…

Yep, it’s in the books. Really large storerooms and pulling stuff up on ropes. In the first book, it’s explained that the Eyrie keeps stores to get through Winter.

The Eyrie doesn’t run out of food in short order. It has the biggest storerooms in Westeros. It’s made to make it through a long Winter and is one of the few places that’s actually been preparing for Winter.

Isn’t the Eyrie supposed to have the largest storage rooms in Westeros. Also, I think it’s the only place that seems to have prepared for Winter-is-Coming on the food front—i.e. Petyr Baelish is planning on making a killing.

Thank you for sticking with it. I was wondering, but didn’t want to look. Octopuses are weird.

Yeah, I know—but, still—The Little Prince—and that part looks exquisite, while the framing part looks tolerable.

We knew we were destroying a huge chunk of the planet’s ecosystem, acidifying its oceans and heating up its climate. We knew that we were going to run into serious problems with overpopulation years ahead of time.

That looks like a replica of a double-hulled Hawaiian canoe used by the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii, which tested whether Polynesian navigation methods could be used to navigate long distances (yes, they can.) So, later part of the Polynesian expansion (Hawaii is remote.)

The Polynesians had extremely skilled navigators—they used astronomy, weather patterns, size of waves,water quality, types of fish and birds to figure out where they were and if they were near land. There was a lot of debate whether skill or luck was involved in the Polynesians crossing the Pacific, but the evidence…

This probably won’t be a popular view here, but I don’t think he intended to rape his wife and I’m glad this old guy’s not going to prison for this. He probably deluded himself into thinking she was herself long enough that they could be husband and wife again.

Ooh, boy, that’s one of my worst-StarTrek-episodes ever—way down there with that OST one about Spock’s brain. Man that was bad.

Oh, Neelix was annoying, but at least the actor could act. Harry Kim and Chakotay were the flattest characters to me and they flattened out Parris. Wish they’d killed off Harry, still brought on Seven of Nine and kept Kes, with Kes aging and maybe just a tad bitter about it.

The Falklands, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha (most remote inhabited island around by some standards)

Well, we survived for centuries and built civilizations without much in the way of fossil fuel. We’re dependent on it now because there are so many of us. If we’re post-apocalyptic survivors then, presumably, there aren’t so many of us and we don’t have to be so efficient in growing food and such. We’d be a slower…