COOL! I must read this unnamed novel.

I’d like to see an astronaut just step into ground somehow. Maybe from the ship to a space elevator to a platform to a glider to just strolling

This has to go into the top 10 all-time best Simpsons scenes. Even reading it I chuckle.

Followed the link. Laughed. Closed the link. Deleted my browser history. Ground my phone to dust. Burned the dust. Buried the ashes on salted ground.

If we’re talking about how much we can influence people, in this instance it’s a question of bandwidth.

Studying for final biology exam on Monday. Every fifth revision question has me going

They're going to need a montage

Agreed. There was enough human interest to stop me from drifting away during some of the longer explanations (which I don't mind in moderation, but it think he was pushing it in Seveneves).

I would lose the infodumps but you need some of that for context or the movie is inexplicable…

This would need to be a *fairly* long film if it was to follow the book. And possibly lose big chunks of both halves of the story.

All sound. I won’t question your methods.

Many trolls on this thread :-(

That's a really cool idea.

‘Tis true that if there’s more footage then we haven’t yet seen ALL the fighting.

OK, quick straw poll: who actually thinks this will make the movie any better?

Clearly he is a valiant robot knight from the age of robot castles here to rescue a robot princess

EXACTLY. Before Penny Dreadful I would have said “probably don’t bother”. Now it’s just plain old “don’t”.

One last thing (I promise!): hearing voices is a common human experience. It’s the amount of distress they cause that results in a diagnosis.