@Catalyst: Has anyone every been so far as to say much like?

@yn3russ: Well before that, there were the Doc Savage pulps- Savage didn't have the backstory, but his methods were practically identical to Simon's. Both men believed in the use of science and psychiatry (including lobotomy) as a cure for criminal disfunction, and utilized a personal staff of scientists and…

I really don't care if it's secret, or the funding comes from a black budget. I don't care if it's going to have possible military application, or if it stays classified for years more.

@AgentCoop: Is this going to be a shitty remake, or just shitty fanfic? I honestly can't tell if she's trying to dickride on Joss's work, or is just fulfilling a fantasy of writing Buffy.

@RockNRollMartian: Why does Buffy need to be "updated" and "darker?"

@Xyberfaust: Never order COD before you plan on being frozen.

@chris1701: Houston too. Of course, that half of Texas will likely be inundated the second that something big happens.

@gmuslera: Space stations/terrestrial colonies are the only real way to assure survival like this. Underground cities and bunkers are all well and good, but the second a quake hits, your multi-billion dollar shelter might not be in the same place/orientation/piece that it was when you started.

@alystra_stardust: The US military used to do nuclear weapons tests at fault lines on the Pacific rim and conventional tests near volcanoes solely to determine if human action can significantly affect seismic activity.

@Michael McElrath: Don't forget the margins!

I could've sworn that people had cracked open wine amphorae from the Hellenistic era before- of course, it was fruity vinegar by that point, but still.

@Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: That was Antarctica, but yeah- every world power has had distant military outposts in the middle of nowhere just to monitor transmissions, weather, and watch for foreign activity.

@Marty_is_Still_Into_Cartoons: That phase didn't hit me until freshman year of college, when I discovered the gateway to hard scifi that is the early work of Alan Moore.

And now, of course, all of those hippies and free-thinkers have become profit-driven iconophiles who'll screw anyone for a buck.

I'm surprised by how optimistic I am about this. Karl Urban's fairly decent (Eomer was good, his job as Bones McCoy sat somewhere between pine and oak); I am *not* a fan of the director and writer.

@Goof_Troop: Doctor Who, 2006 Series, episodes 08-09: "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit."

@TVs_Frank: Not nearly as awesome as a planet on top of a black hole, but getting closer.

@DSB7: WoW's 100% proprietary. They own the servers, the software, the graphics and every single line of content in the game. Take out any of those things, and you lose the rest of it.

@Tebasaki: He missed the shot onto the other building, it bounced over to the mountain, and bounced back into his head.

@eliavictor: The best way to describe anti-matter is....it's weird.