And you are forgetting another factor of why Matrix is better than Empire Strikes Back: no sequels, they only did a small, basically anime prequel to give us some extra background, nothing more. Really appreciate how they hold themselves keeping that alone piece just perfect.

Popeye ate spinach to became strong. But if you want to be like Hulk you should eat bananas.

Poor Sting. He tough that he was the alien being an englishman in new york and resulted that everyone else were the alien there.

Lotto is for noobs, is just too slow. What about the next Bernie Mardoff investing a ton of millons in knowing how would be the stock market next year, month or day? You could have concerns in using this technology if it could harm civilization, but stock markets won't.

Could be a regulator (controlled directly or indirectly by the brain) around that? How the liver, the adn, or the molecules around there "knows" that is day? What about working on normal hours, but in places with i.e. no natural light? And if there is a brain controlled regulator, can we do something to influence in…

Not fully understood?

I think i saw better acting and special effects in some 80's console bird shooting games.

This applies not just to living things. Someone should show this article to the ones organizing the March Movie Madness. Certain number of movies just can't be ordered from best to worst, matching them in pairs and then picking the "best" totally ignores what is said here.

Sometimes small steps in extrapolations are better than long jumps. A lot of what is "predicted" by science fiction related to computers and social environments goes around new conciences, either artificial , combination of natural ones, or moving yours to the net, and that could end being as impractical, impossible,…

Could give a new meaning to the idea of colonizing the stars, if only they had solid ground to stay on, breathable air and not so damn strong surface gravity.

If i remember well (ok, not usually do that) creating antimatter actually creates both kind of matter, you just pick the rare one after its get created. So killing that antimatter will give anyway the energy you used on creating it, or less, never more.

Define "good". So far the deciding factor was a bunch of directives trying to do a safe bet. And that is a sure path to mediocrity, not to enjoyable shows.

If the premiere were last year, Star Trek TNG wouldn't end the 1st season. There are shows that start with a bang and ends in the mud (add V to the list), and ones that start weird, or boring, and then grows into something enjoyable. Unfortunately the first kind is the one that survives lately.

Probably the biggest problem about using antimatter in big scales is not how to store it, but how to be efficient massively creating/obtaining it , without using as much energy as it would provide. If you have to use more energy to create it than it produces could be as good as very efficient and small batteries, but…

How dying one of the alternate you affects you or all the remaining alternates? If you get more powerful, you'll be pretty close to Jet Li's The One.

You should had included "everyone except Truman" in The Truman Show.

That something is useless don't make it go away just because of that. look at the appendix. It goes away because it somehow reduce your chances to mate or survive to below average, or not having it increase those chances over the average, at least in the big numbers.

How much is intelligence and how much being able to carry a culture? If you put a culture like ours to an orca or a dolphin, will be able to solve problems that we couldnt?

Im more afraid of software robots. First, because you should be actually scared from something that manage to clog internet with spam. And second, because of Agent Smith. That are built with metal is secondary (a ton of metal falling into your head can kill you, but that deserves respect, not fear), what matters is…