@PistachioWildebeest: I see your giant sloth and raise you one Glyptodon.

And now somebody's won the Mega Millions by playing Hurley's numbers.

I guess there's only one piece of advice to be drawn here by those of us responsible for solving climate change: Must go faster.

I thought it was simply that we hominids killed and ate all the megafauna?

@JudasAsparagus: "They'd be crazy to follow you, wouldn't they?"

When Voldemort is in charge, everyone must have facial hair.

In a similar lobe (heh), here is something Neil Tyson tweet-linked a while back: "an estimate of the number of Shakespeare's atoms in every living human being." It, too, may surprise you.

So is there some unwritten rule at Fox that only actors with Welsh-sounding names can play Reed Richards? If there is may I nominate Michael Sheen, who actually is Welsh despite an American sounding moniker?

I'm reminded of something from a book I've been reading, a story about an English lord who financed a new gallery for the "Elgin marbles" that opened sometime in the 1920s. While refurbishing the Greek sculptures, he was so fixated on their "whiteness" being essential to their value that he had workers scrub and…

@totallymatt: Is it only that recently? Or is there a specific historical reference here that I'm not getting?

It's not too often one gets to read so many insightful and amusing comments (with a sci fi twist) written by the likes of Classics majors. Cool!

@Nixorbo: It even makes sense - fish were the one kind of meat the Greeks had available that they could distribute liberally, due to sacrificial considerations. (I just read that somewhere yesterday. It does not explain, however, why they did not simply eat the dolphins.)

@hopskipper: Dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb-dumb...

@eviladrian: Plus one to you, sir.

Sigur Ros was an absolutely perfect musical choice.

@LolaInSlacks: Somehow the Betty Draper character seems to fit her perfectly as an actress. But yeah, I can't see her acting anywhere close to that well in anything else. She was absolutely dreadful as guest host on SNL.

@sephycloneno15: As long as they don't have planetary-inertia-stealing spools of yarn we should be okay.

Bravo. Nice work, Braak!

@Roklimber: Not so loud - he's napping and he can hear your wondering.

Awesomeness. Can't wait to see.