hahaha, a year?
Nah, the dome came down three weeks ago... (Yes, far enough time for several catastrophies, for everyone to almost starve, but then to find the stash of a food hoarder, the main characters to switch sides, goals and motivations half a dozen times, always form new factions, get out of the dome, come…

It’s great to see Marg Helgenberger working but how much longer will she be forced to show her femininity by wearing a tank top? Come on TV executives, how does a tank top fit into the plot?

So many scifi writers use the WonderBaby trope when they run out of ideas. The 4400, Falling Skies, Stargate SG1.

I can’t believe nine years ago was 2006. Stupid accelerating universe...

If they’re thinking about Xena then we’re one step closer to the return of Cleopatra 2525!

So far I’ve:

I was on a flight from Dublin to Glasgow back in 2013, on which he booked the seat right next to me. I told myself ‘No, no, be cool don’t bother the man, let him enjoy his flight in peace without getting lots of gushy questions thrown his way.’

I lasted about ten seconds.

The other hour, nine minutes and 50 seconds he…

I pretend that one day, if I met him, I’d recognize him.

My idea is that stories that we then hear and see and interneralize—and wear hats from and come to conventions about...

I'm still bitter about SCC. I wanted to hate that show and I ended up really digging it. Only for it to end the way it did.

They aren’t as delicate as horse racing would have you believe. Race horses are all incredibly young. Most retire at 4 or 5. In contrast, other competitive horses (dressage, jumping) are still learning the basics and won’t even begin to compete until they’re 10 or 12. Horses need those years for their muscles to fully…

Faster short distance specialists became desirous because of the changing landscape in ownership. The sport was called “the sport of kings” for a reason centuries ago. Owners largely bred, trained and raced there own stock. The pursuit was a great racehorse and the amount of time and money it took to get there was…

It is not so much that they are being bred for speed over stamina, but more that it is more lucrative to breed horses for sale, rather than to run. Breeders are looking to raise a foal until it is a weanling or yearling at which time they send the young horse to auction. Someone buys the weanling and perhaps sells it…

That is due more to the technological advances being made, super lightweight material, better running surfaces, etc that are of no help at all in horse racing. Thoroughbreds already wear aluminum shoes, the lightest you can get, and the weight they carry in races has gone up rather than down, you can only ask a jockey…

Your numbers are scewed by a lack of understanding of the industry, George. While I am not a proponent of Lasix use hear in the United States, as it’s generally given as a performance enhancing drug rather than simply used to prevent horses from respiratory bleeding. This means fewer deaths of US racehorses from…

Counterpoint, from FiveThirtyEight. Humans getting significantly faster, horses not so much.

Horses are already remarkably fragile creatures. Breeding them for even less durability seems to be kind of irresponsible.