I have had it with these motherfuckin’ spiders on this motherfuckin’ space station!

Yes, please.

Be afraid, very afraid. Today we demostrated that it could be profitable.

To totally cover a star, at an earth-like orbit, you need more than just a nearby planet. In fact, the mass (assuming is not made with aerogel or something even lighter) would exceed the sum of the mass of all the matter in the solar system, including the Sun.

Watching the finish was like... Doh! How did she expected that not getting more or less the same future she was in she could get back to her family, even if it existed? The only chance that she had is that everything was exactly like when she left, else at the very least the alternate she would be there too.

If Mieville’s Embassytown is anything like The City and the City (that i just finished to read) it should be great. Putting it next in my reading list, Perdido Street Station was another good precedent of the same author.

In the other hand, might be a signal that they don’t want to look what is happening to our little blue ball, in the case that they could make a difference, or worse, that realize that are they the ones causing the difference that make it worth to look elsewhere for hope.

It went down a bit since the first season. Then it was all about evil corporations and terrorists that were against them, fighting to avoid an ugly dystopic future that started to take shape in our present. But in the second season that was not so much the priority, things blurred out, started to play with timelines,…

Don’t shoot the messenger. The problem lies more on how they try to sell them than the concept of digital books itself. Its about publisher’s greed, not technology.

Nightmarish, you said?

Not sure about the biggest, but the latest were just with written words. Reading Greg Egan’s Diaspora, and the collision of neutron stars gave me chills. And the previous one was with Charles Sheffield’s Summertide, with 2 planets orbiting each others in an universe with really big and powerful artifacts. Maybe both…

Whatever ship you send to investigate that, don’t call it Millenium Falcon.

A lot of candidates on Star Trek series. From TNG Data was the obvious choice, then Worf as second one. Q, Riker, Pulaski and others could fit in the description too.

Understanding the language don’t mean understanding the message. Ask any programmer that had to maintain code of an ex-coworker.

This one.... oh, wait.

With the amount of hidden personalities/characters Elliot seem that will show in the next season, probably Tatiana Maslani (or Ari Millen) would had been a better choice for that role.

If climate causes that weird things become the new normal, 4 lined up tropical storms will be between the boring ones. El Niño is helping bit time for several months more, but don’t forget the elephant in the room.

Was my first reaction when i first saw it. But no New Crobuzon around, nor moths.

But somewhat, killing 5 million people every single year by the tobacco industry deserves government protection, and is not very frowned upon. And we probably could say the same (with even worse numbers) for the alcohol industry or the conglomerate behind global warming denial.

I have to play the devil’s advocate in this question