How about the entire Dune series? There's so much crazy-ass Freudian fucking going on towards the last couple books it isn't even funny anymore.

How about the entire Dune series? There's so much crazy-ass Freudian fucking going on towards the last couple books it isn't even funny anymore.

Normally red light is used for things like this because it keeps pupils dilated, and preserves eyesight. However, since this is obviously a press feature, they had to make it look cooler than it actually is.

@durdentyler: Definitely. I can't see Aronofsky doing this without making it too deep or freaky. There's really not that much depth to Superman's mythos.

@GameBreaker: The worst part is that no one in government is persuaded to do anything about institutional poverty until it affects the bridge and tunnelers. The subway can suck, the busses can break down, but no one 'important' will notice until people can't drive their Hummers across town.

@Dominic Arenas:

@a.seivewright: The standardization process itself is getting screwed. Other contracts are just as behind and over budget on creating the standard parts and systems, rather than using tried-and-true ones.

@Still_Into_Cartoons:

@SkipErnst: The problem is that it's basically an iron maiden without power. If it runs out of battery with an operator inside it, then it looks like they're pretty much frozen in it without help from someone else. Until they can get it light and free enough to at least walk in unpowered and not be an enormous strain…

Dammit, I know these planes are ridiculously expensive, several times over-budget and over-deadline, and generally less useful and reliable than older and less complex planes, but boy do they look AWESOME.

@kaffeen: This sounds less like a matter of being able to do it in the first place, and more like making it matter of standard procedure.

Any role he gets cast as, I'm sure he'll be great. I'm not sure how willing Nolan is to give up part of the script to a rewrite (Norton is infamous for demanding to write his own parts), so that might scuttle his chances.

@nukethewhalesagain: Definitely.

@jayfreak1023: Sorry- I've lived my life in rural state, and my current governor pretty regularly asserts that he's president of his own sovereign country. Thanks for your criticism, and I need to clarify a few details of my assumptions.

@jayfreak1023: The other alternative is to isolate the impact of humanity on the environment. It's well within our power to dramatically reduce consumption of resources and the reliance on acreage as a factor in civilization. The newest generation of skyscrapers in East Asia and the Middle East use a tiny portion of…

Nuclear reactors don't really 'blow up' anymore. Chernobyl was poorly designed and constructed, with glaring logical problems in its failsafes. Hate to Russia-bash, but those kinds of reactors haven't been built for decades outside of the former Bloc, and any previous ones have been shut down and encased.

@speroscythe: The major problem wasn't deforestation (More of a problem in the trans-Appalacian and West coast areas). The density of vegetation in the Plains area actually increased both initially and continuously during the settlement period, due to ongoing development of farming techniques and crops.

@Dr Wadd: During a senior class trip to Boston, we visited the Back Bay area. Most of us had never seen a city or a coastline before, and were unaware that reclamation was the norm in most coastal urban areas.

Let's not forget what the most basic of agricultural practices can do: the arrival of Europeans in North America signaled the complete destruction of the continent's dominant plains ecosystem, and it didn't take very long to do. Between 1800 and 1900, *most* of America's surface area was changed from wilderness with a…

To be fair, there are a lot more and common disasters that could and have caused mass extinction. The worst and most memorable of the last 100 million years was the Chixulub event that created a good portion of the Gulf of Mexico and wiped out some of the largest life forms in Earth's history. All it took was a far…