I’m not a prequel defender but I think one of the big problems with them was that they weren’t just a cash grab. Lucas put his all into them, he just failed. The new JJ Abrams SW movie is a cash grab, but it’s well executed & gives fans what they want.

I don’t quite get the abject hatred of Cars 2. I think it suffers primarily because its judged against Up, Wall-E, and Finding Nemo. Pixar sets the bar SO. FUCKING. HIGH. It’s definitely at the bottom of the list, right next to A Bug’s Life.

If they just set it on a Department of Temporal Investigations Ship we can all have what we want.

If you were born in 1955 (as I was) you’re now straddling both of those 30-year periods at the ripe old age of 60. So why do I still feel 20?

There will always be people willing to take the risk to explore new places and advance technologies. Almost every advancement in human achievement has come at the risk of death. Yet there will always be people to do it. And good thing too, because if it weren’t for those people we would probably never have achieved…

I agree with you. With all their advanced technology, couldn’t they apply some Men in Black shtick and make them blank their minds temporarily or a half hour memory loss? It was the reason why they made Nix A bad guy, and he had to pay for the murders. It was kind of like

I don’t believe that at all. Nostalgia can be a great motivator for optimism.

I can’t. I hope he punches space apathy into a forgotten pulp.

I’m reminded of how medieval cathedrals could take upward of 300 years to build, and yet generations of people would still build it, knowing full well that they’d never live to see the end result. I guess that’s a virtue we’re forced to learn when it comes to space exploration; there’s just so much that we’ll never…

Hollywood exists only to make a profit.

But if nobody hashes out the highly interesting details, none of what you want will ever happen.

I think the problem is that we (including me) often look for technological solutions to social issues. The device in question in this article isn’t just technology to enhance our lives but can also be technology to facilitate our existing complexes.

Yeah, that’s right! LOL! And he was leaving “Lone Pine Mall” since Marty Prime had already run down one of the twin pines in 1955, so what does Marty 2 do upon stumbling out of that barn? When *he* returns to ‘85 will the sign just read “Mall”???

I know I’ll get a lot of Clyde Tombaugh fans ticked off at me but I think the jist of this video indicates why it was a good idea that Pluto got shifted to dwarf planet status—and it’s not because I’m a Neil deGrasse Tyson fan.

The entire premise of this study is nothing but ‘if’. If farming practices do not change. If climate models progress along the expected lines.

The direct draw of space is, of course, exploration. Like you said, space is the journey. To put it more blunty: we already live in space. Our vehicle is a planet locked gravitationally around a sun which is locked in a gravitational dance with the rest of galaxy, which is locked in a gravitational dance with the…

Because it’s there.

I really hope Captain Worf makes it. The show he outlines sounds like it could take the best elements of ST, without being so bound by the old ST/Federation framework, and generally provide superior SF in a DS9-meets-Firefly-meets-late-era-TNG sort of mode.

I’m still impressed with NASA’s vehicle assembly building.

The line that Casey says before she has her epiphany (and I swear, half the people who saw the movie seem to miss this point) was, “If you’re going to beam a message into people’s heads, make sure that it’s not a lie!” Her next question to Frank confirms her fears: the reason he could tap the Monitor from our world is…