I think it's the film Mission to Mars, with the excellent Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen, and Tim Robbins, among others.

"flesh joystick"?

Yes, you're preaching to the choir! Choirs, btw, will one day be outlawed in SF, in favor of only non-religious choruses.

"Live animals sold for eventual human consumption would be exempt [for now]."

Los Alamos National Laboratory is just a hop skip & a jump north of there!

This just in:

In your view the education cuts are a bad thing. Millions of citizens, also with children in public schools, think different. Neither is the point here.

Heck, there are excellent football coaches (e.g. Charlie Weis of Jets, Patriots, Notre Dame, Chiefs, and Univ. of Florida fame) who couldn't play past high school. So there's no good reason I can see why a woman might not be able to do so.

Hey congrats on publishing a novel, Anna! Is it your first?

"This morning, I hold it against the American judge who, by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other."

In the Cosmos article this post links, the scientists state that one's weight would be only double??

Goooo mammals!

Ah, the Jar Jar Binkses of the Transformers franchise! Glory be.

"Can Tyrion Lannister help convince his royal kin that there are real dangers beyond the wall, and that the ancient mythological threats are real and terrible? Don't count on it — even Tyrion seems not to believe."

This is an excellent, insightful post!

"... however I couldn't help to think it was kind of like seeing the cliff notes version of the book. It was like they highlighted the important scenes and to me it seemed a bit disjointed in some parts."

Oy vey! That's rough too!

That hammer and sickle flag stands for so much badness that seeing it shopped in, above, is really creepy. Desired effect ftw!

Where you say "risk", the Chinese say "opportunity". Or, maybe not the Chinese, but somebody does I'm pretty sure.