It depends on the price of fuel, really - if it’s no issue, then Valles Mariner is - we know very little about the bottom, little about the geology of the sides and it’s the biggest canyon in the solar system: 7km deep and 4000km long. There may be caves, channels, who knows - a great place for a low radiation trek.

Exactly. Next stop, Starship Troopers.

I'll be honest, I don't read many comics, but I'm sold on this concept - there's conflicts going on here that I can buy into in a big way. Thanks!

So I'm not wrong when it feels like I just gave myself a bloody nose - it's actually hitting that same system.

Basically they won't be able to make Deckard central without prejudicing the question. If it was just a cameo in a recording, they could do avoid it, but they'll never settle for sidelining the star.

See, here's the thing - the official story is that there are no replicants on earth - but Rachel is the counter example - it seems likely there are many more Rachaels in the world in the sense that the companies have been breaking the law for years.

Or, he could be another Deckard, in another sector, who never met Rachel, whose lifetime doesn't even overlap with hers - though I'd be pretty mad if they just laid it out 'the other Deckard is a replicant' - they could make it ambiguous - like does he maybe have memories stolen from a human Deckard, or are they all…

On Kinja, I'll settle for syntactically correct English, even if I agree with you about clarity for media where documents are written in more than 2 hours.

I dunno, I read it as a 'a message that permeates the whole series' - an odd turn of phrase, and similar sounding to 'serious message', but not grammatical incorrect.

For what it's worth, I remember hearing in a documentary that round-the-world solo sail racers find that their fingernails basically stop growing. The opinion was that the cold weather (Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope passages!) and stress basically stops nail growth. I suppose this might half-way support the…

Awards make a big difference to the advances of authors who haven't won before, often thousands of dollars. They make no difference to multiple winners.

No doubt it’s hilarious. Just that I had never encountered such a thing before!

Like private (charter) education, healthcare, bylaw enforcement and prisons, this is just another example of 'Publicly Subsidized, Privately Profitable' neoliberalism (aka Reaganomics). The content hasn't changed so much as been degraded. It's just that capitalists have found another way to make a profit from your…

Yeah, I wasn't sure if you were going to talk about it, but the weird thing about re-uptake inhibition is that it has an onset of a few hours but SSRIs don't do anything (even in better-than-placebo doses) for weeks. So even the basic physiology of the drugs seems to militate against the Serotonin theory.

Salman Rushdie talks about these in Kashmir in Haroun and the Sea of Stories. I had no idea they were still a major agricultural practice. I seem to remember something similar in Lake Titicaca in Bolivia as well - but again, not as a major commercial player. Very cool!

Well, it was a place founded by debt-absconding mostly English, but also Irish, French, Basque and Portuguese fishing families, so it's not too surprising. St. John's has been settled year-round, yet pretty isolated, since the 1630s, so there's a bit of a time-machine effect too.

Rap from a working class (and high unemployment) suburb of St. John's, Newfoundland. They have a very distinctive accent on the island generally, and this is the local Ned/Chav/Skid dialect of that dialect. (Newfoundlanders are also famous for self mockery and make up a disproportionate number of Canadian comics, so…

Tea cures all.

These rapping Neds should join up with these skeets from near Saint John's, Newfoundland:

A close friend had a new room mate who turned out to be a small-time crack dealer, in the room below him - so he set up the Requiem for A Dream soundtrack on repeat on his stereo in his room, speakers face down, on max, before locking the room and leaving for the weekend.