or star wars essentially. all that stuff with holstered heroes, bar fights, rural frontiers and bounty hunters... that's lifted directly from westerns. i liked firefly but it seemed almost like a "duh" to me in this regard.

there are other considerations over profit and not everything is an economic venture. as neal stephenson notes: we didn't create a massive arsenal of nukes because it was profitable. we didn't go to the moon because it was profitable. and we don't hook granny up to life support to give her another six months…

he's talking about He3 as different from He isn't he? he's talking about the prospects of using He3 for a fusion reactor and how that is just hypothetical fancy.

oh COME ON!!! this is a statue of robocop in detroit... it HAS TO... HAS TO... have him stepping out of a policed out ford taurus! srsly, it's borderline sacrilege without it! make it happen chop chop!

actually, 'they live' would be a great little wake up call for tea baggers... the proper poster would not be a take on obama but a koch brother.

premise reminds me of poul anderson's 'tau zero'. or 'speed' for that matter. "in a world where in order to live, you must go faster!" that's the poster right there.

i'm kind of afraid of reading sci-fi older than a few years because of my inability to swallow ideas that are based on totally discredited science so i've only read leiber's fantasy grey mouser stuff... something that i noted about him is that he can be riotously hilarious. there's one story that talks about a…

awwww, but the notion that technological civilizations are doomed to a never ending cycle of self annihilation throwing everyone back to rebuild from the stone age... that's a pretty darn cool idea. it took me a bit to get into it but for me, the payoff was well worth it.

so basically, it's like an optical transistor. i think the description is otherwise misleading... i've got an anti-laser right here and it's called a wall. blocks lasers and has nothing exotic about it.

this needs a citation - "memory palace" is probably a reference to "the memory palace of matteo ricci" that discusses this kind of mnemonic geographizing...

how developers of old go is no indication of the state of the pc gaming space. they're established and they need to get more buck for bang.

ABSOLUTELY! i hate it when all these alarmist articles decry the death (or euphemized here, "metamorphosis") of pc gaming.

actually, is that really where $25 turns into $60? my understanding of it was that the tax is so high because it is taxing the phone's UN-SUBSIDIZED PRICE.

i hope they make wolverine short. you simply can't get that angry and that messed up while looking like hugh jackson.

can't wait for the first time that someone decides to mix beebee pellets along with the marshmallows.

there's less exotic stuff than that. there's hydrogen for a ram scoop to pick up at sufficient speed to serve as fuel even in intergalactic space. unfortunately at that speed, the hydrogen would also serve to slow down the ram scoop ship as a result of friction so no .999c dammit....

but the colors may have shifted towards the result of film stock from the 60s... does this create a link to vietnam that might not otherwise be there?

but it's impossible for you NOT to put your take on it. if you take a cinema class or even photography classes, there was an argument during the inception that photography was not "art" because it just "captures reality"... but this is absolutely not true. the angle in which something if photographed, how close…

awesome article. rarely chime into just say that... can't think of the last time actually. but this was a really great, well written, well researched article. kudos.

also doesn't account for the fact that magnetic strength attenuates ridiculously quickly... there is no trick to getting a magnet to affect metallic/conductive surfaces but the trick is to get a BEAM do the same thing at distance.