Maybe not to replace food intake entirely, but surely it might at least be able to reduce our dietary needs? The bigger problem to me is the evolutionary pressures it would create - It would remove some of the need to be smart, and replace it with a need to stand around outside in the sun a lot. I’m not sure that…

I’m not sure about that. I was born with the ability to grow a beard, and at various times in my life I have done that. It was still itchy.

Yeah, this seems highly plausible. Honestly I wish people would quit harping on this detail . The word used as a title is ultimately arbitrary - it can be “Queen” or “Fred” or whatever else the people creating the position choose. Just because positions with the title “Queen” in the real world are usually (but not…

Yeah, I had the exact same reaction! The resemblance is uncanny...

I always figured Snow White was still kind of out of it from the poison that had just nearly killed her.

This. The Dice and statistics are just artifacts left over from Dungeons and Dragons’ wargaming heritage, but too many people confuse these trapings with the core of an RPG, which is Role-playing.

So... she makes you THINK it stays on?

It might be the more practical option in the long run though. The cost of carting around the necessary environmental conditions to keep fragile humans in the comfort to which they are accustomed here on earth is part of what makes space travel so difficult and expensive.

And, as you are well aware, we’re not built for zero-g existence. Which means, we’re going to come up with methods to generate gravity. We’re not robust enough to resist radiation. So we will develop ways to shield ourselves from it.

“BJ and Guns” sounds like an 80’s TV show title.

I think it was mostly for the same reason we tend to de-humanize people we consider enemies. If we don’t think of them as thinking, feeling beings, we don’t have to feel guilty about the harm we inflict on them.

Honestly, Chris Pratt and his raptor gang are the only reason I have any interest in this movie at all. They’re just too awesomely wacky for me to pass up.

100 years is not a long time, and the nature of humans and power dynamics has not changed. You're a fool if you think corporations wouldn't drag us right back to those bad old days in a heartbeat if they could. Hell, they're actively working towards it as we speak, and the fact that they've succeeded tricking people…

Baymax approves...

Yeah, this. On top of which, the cartoon version of the turtles used in the article is the one from all the crappy turtles merch from the early 90's. Even the first season of the cartoon had a better style than that.

That's the cast of a comic series called Top Ten, about a super-powered cops in a city where everyone has super powers. Since Marvel and DC claim the term "superhero" as a trademark, America's Best Comics, (The publisher of Top Ten) coined the alternate term "Science Hero". And yeah, that green guy was a drunken…

When I saw the headline about "The Failings of our Science Heroes", my mind went somewhere else entirely...

It all makes sense...