No one does outrage like Team Internet. We need to harness that power and make them understand that, if they don’t respect the source material, then they don’t get our business! It’s still early enough in the production that we might be able to force changes if we make a big enough stick. Quick! To the Facebookmobile!

I agree. The same thing happened to the 1630's series he writes with Eric Flint. They’re trying way too hard to have all the tales intermesh and it just makes a mess. Do side stories with other characters. Fine, but keep the main books ~tight~. Really, since Baen died it’s like no one’s bothering to edit Weber’s stuff…

The thing I loved about Monsters U was the way it completely subverted expectations at every turn. Each time there was an obvious way the plot should go they zigged and went in a different direction. I mean, we all knew they end up working at Monsters Inc. To have them end up failing and then starting over in the…

So, Hiro invents the nano-bots, but can’t just build another control unit or a jamming device to take them out of action? That was by biggest beef with the plot; they didn’t even attempt the obvious solution.

Monorail!

Not alien. It was banished from earth to that world ages ago. (Ok, it’s a little alien, but technically so are all the inhumans)

This works because honey has a very low water content. Honey helps prevent infections for the same reason it doesn’t spoil. There’s not enough water for bacteria to survive. This, however, is a different property from what’s being discussed in the article.

Since the idea is to make a hand that is as much like human anatomy as possible, why not use something that acts by contraction as human muscles do? Fine grain control could be achieved in different ways. Our muscles are a mass of individual fibres that don’t all fire at the same time. I would imagine a smart person…

This is very awesome, but why did they use servos for the motion? Why not use something that acts more like real muscles? http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health…

Sneaky. I was thinking more that it would overload them when they hit each other.

Now it cuts through other light sabers maybe?

Speaking of the Day of the Dead, have you seen The Book of Life? It’s a pretty good animated movie that got zero attention. Give it a go if you haven’t seen it.

Don’t be dissing Treasure Planet. Home on the Range? Sure, it’s a suck-fest, but Treasure Planet is a good movie. It’s a neat adaptation of Treasure Island. I don’t care if the science is silly.

It’s Light-ish Red, Damnit!

It wasn’t loaded. There were fake bullet tips in the revolver chambers so that they did not appear empty when filming from the front. One of these slid into the barrel of the weapon. Later, it was loaded with blanks and fired at Brandon Lee. The “Fake” bullet tip was fired out of the gun and struck him. Tragically it…

Just so long as the answer to “Who is Finn” doesn’t turn out to be “Lando Calrissian’s son.”

Did anyone else notice that Rey’s fighting style is very much the same as Luke’s circa Return of the Jedi? She does a lot of the overhand, two handed thrust manuver that he used in his fight with Vader. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else use that move.

The guy had just been shot in the stomach by a bowcaster. That’s a heck of a handicap, especially considering all the work the movie did to show us what a destructive weapon it is.

Except that there are apps already available for smartphones that do this very thing. Computing power is not what’s holding them back.

Instead of trying to blend projections with what you actually see in real life why not just add two small cameras to something like Occulus Rift? Then you could use it for both VR and AR. In the AR mode, the cameras would give the user a stereoscopic view of the real world on which the software could project any…