My neighbor bought one from Costco a couple weeks ago for his 8-year-old son. So they still make them.

At one point in the video, the spider suspiciously looks like a... B5 Shadow!

The space shuttle's payload was 24 tons, not 94 tons.

I agree. Gru and the girls should go full villain. If only to keep Nefario around, he's so funny! "Boogie robots! Hahahahaaa!"

My son started using that thing at 3 and moved to a bicycle by age 3.5 and never used training wheels. It really works! Now my daughter is 3 and has already started learning to balance.

Brandon Routh is also Todd Ingram, the 3rd boyfriend in Scott Pilgrim. He nailed that role of an obnoxious bad ex-boyfriend!

They got Baelor's Sept right this time. With the seven spires. Unlike all other attempts I've seen to date. Good for them.

My favorite opening quote is from a movie. Dune 1984, by Princess Irulan: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/quotes?qt=qt0328211

As a Québécois myself, it is my duty to say that I love my toilet's flushing efficiency. I don't want any of this euro water-saving-toilet crap!

I loved Ulysse 31 when I was a kid!

People fall out of favour.

I need a t-shirt with this picture

The Alexei Leonov from 2010 (also the Omega Class destroyers from Babylon 5 incidentally)

Is no one thinking of ionized air propulsion? If you find a efficient enough way of ionizing air, then you can just push it away like in a ion propulsion engine with an electric field. You can also use super-conducting electro-magnets (like the Vasimir engine currently in development). Super-conduction would mean…

Old Man's War!

(accidental double post) "Patrick" or "Jeff"? Is he planning a crossover episode with Coupling?

"Patrick" or "Jeff"? Is he planning a crossover episode with Coupling?

Another scientific explanation could be that the Ice and Fire planet is orbiting a multiple star system.

Please correct your English. Effect vs affect. It makes it hard to read, really.

It's not meant to be the Iron Couch. It's just "The Couch" as "The Wall". The Wall in the North.