This isn't that big of a deal. It's simply implanting a peripheral device in his skin. You can do this with RFID chips and bar codes fairly easily.

@Odin: The last presidents to put their money where their mouths were on space exploration were Reagan and Clinton. Both Obama and Bush made big cuts to NASA over the last decade, but Obama's record has been marginally better.

@destinrl: The memory implants weren't even a necessary part of the story.

@5erge: There was no way they could make GL without CGI. I'm not sold on the CG uniform, but this wouldn't have been possible (okay, it would've just looked a lot worse) even 10 years ago.

@krypterband: I know- I had thought they were going for retro-futuristic looks for all of the tech in Captain America. The Hydra tanks look like a Warthog from Halo did the nasty with a stealth fighter.

Cooking has easily surpassed gaming as my #1 hobby this year. It costs less than buying new games and hardware, you need to eat food anyway, and unlike Achievements, you get a much more real sense of accomplishment, experience, and general competence.

@Toastie: The most obvious reason I can think of would be trade.

@drivintin: This was a public library. The room was literally a closet. Why a library closet could afford a pair of 25-gallon Halon tanks and no gas mask, I'll never know why.

I hate to sound stupid, but it doesn't sound like anyone is considering the inverse of these theories:

@VanDetta: It's been computer-generated from Earth-bound images. All it takes is a second gamma-ray-detecting satellite or underground device to triangulate on source(s) and create a 2-d picture.

I had a blowup of the Essential Vehicles Guide page on the Falcon on my bedroom wall for most of my childhood through college. Got stolen immediately when I got to college.

@Yamato: They'll probably think that this is the tomb of an Atlantean emperor.

@Tatterfoal: Hmmm- I've been ambushed by Monstercat while taking the garbage out. It was in the dumpster, feeding (or possibly absorbing nutrients). Monstercat also drinks out of the pool.

@Srynerson: WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK WE ARE!?

WE DON'T NEED A DUNE MOVIE.

Nah- my complex has a 25-lb tabby that scares the shit out of every other animal there.* Despite it's massive size and girth, 'Monstercat' can move just as quickly as a normal, non-leviathan kitty, which makes it only more frightening.

Halon scares the shit out of me. I used to work at a city branch library, where the book drop room was hermetically sealed from the rest of the building, with giant halon 1301 gas tanks in the ceiling.

@Daaneth Kivioq: To be fair, there are dozens of moons around the gas planets that are considerably larger and more massive than both Pluto and Eris. Even Earth's moon is larger than the dwarf planets of the solar system.

@timgray: I was in a one-room for a while, and went with a nice moderate mATX build for around $220, simply because I didn't need an NAS at the time and just stored everything in the box.

@nagumi: There was an issue back after Apollo 11 where some of the moon rocks (sealed into their canister back on the lunar surface) wound up with germs growing on them inside of quarantine.