The book How Not to be Wrong has the most wonderful quote about Abraham Wald and the bullet-ridden airplanes. He starts his story by saying, “This story, like many WWII stories, starts with the Nazis hounding a Jew out of Europe and ends with the Nazis regretting it.”

Where is the air intake on that thing? It seems like pretty much every part of it other than the handlebars was submerged at one point or another, so I don’t understand how he didn’t kill the engine?

Here’s a link to the video at the timestamp to show the issue, so people don’t have to search seven minutes of video for the five seconds that show this issue:

Spare me your impatience. ;-)

Save her!

Tennant’s Kilgrave and Ledger’s Joker are to me far and away the best adversaries in comic book movies/TV. Not even Loki comes close. This video explains why Ledger’s Joker is such a good antagonist for Batman, and many of the arguments apply to the relationship between Kilgrave and Jessica Jones.

That comic always brings me close to tearing up. Here’s the alternate ending:

The ads make the site unloadable for me. Several times now the dialog has come up, and because I’m sympathetic to the site, I turn off ad blocking. Then I spend several minutes wondering if my browser is broken, or my internet is down, because nothing loads, and links are frozen. Then I remember that it’s because of…

As others have said, it’s much better to either save for a Concept 2 or buy one used. Here are several reasons why:

As others have said, it’s much better to either save for a Concept 2 or buy one used. Here are several reasons why:

In Los Angeles, it’s pretty standard for intersections to have no left turn arrow. So the standard is that, assuming oncoming traffic prevents you from completing your left turn while the light is green, you pull into the intersection, pretty much as described above, *however* only two cars are allowed to make the…

Seconded. Whenever the possible futures of nanotech come up, PostSingular is my go-to example.

When considering how convoluted the MCU might become, it’s important to recognize that contrary to what Marvel claims, you can pretty much completely ignore the Netflix/TV Series. So all up we’re talking about a few dozen hours of material with maybe forty main characters. It’s going to be a long time before that gets…

Hands down the best moment of the season is when Maze takes Chloe’s daughter Trixie out trick-or-treating. I won’t spoil it, but it takes an unexpected and amazingly poignant turn.

I was at California Adventure one night several years back when something else big was going on and managed to go on the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror three or four times in a row, no wait at all. I’d like to go on this new variant somewhere along the way, but for now, like Frozone says, “I’m good...I’m good.”

Season 4 seems about as likely as Hannibal going vegan.

As is often the case with time travel stories, there is some sort of canonical “now,” that the main events of the story trace. Anything that happens before the canonical now is at least somewhat set in place — bad guys can sometimes still be defeated and disappear, but negative consequences, or even large-scale change…

Yeah, if I had a nickel for every time Barry runs to a fight in a split second only to have an ordinary-speed person manage to hit him — more than once — I’d be able to, I don’t know, buy dinner at Denny’s or something.

Do we know for absolutely certain that Captain America isn’t secretly working for good? (I haven’t read this storyline, I don’t know)

An experiment at the edge of science and someone/thing named Alice. What could possibly go wrong? resident_evil_6-milla_jovovich-guns-2016-movie-(381).jpg

She’s also the oldest woman to fly in space: she turned 57 while on this mission.