BBC budget and payroll cutbacks. Prudent given that Britain is about to dive off a cliff -- err, Achieve Greatness As Outcasts.

That thing looks to be 1:6 scale. Does Barbie get to fly it, or Ken?

Yes! Actually measuring the gravitational attraction of a mountain is possible and doable with handheld instruments originally developed for oil prospecting.

Yes! Sintered hematite dust! You could filter it out of the ambient air then dump it through a compressed-CO2 plasma arc aimed at a cold form. You'd get a tough, dense ceramic everywhere you aim the plasma torch, in broad swaths for big areas but also tight spot deposition for detail work. A robot could stand in one…

And if you wander around backroads Oregon and Washington, you can find the modestly-dubbed Columbia River Basalt Group.

I’m pretty sure they aren’t booing him for voting. They’re booing him for being Donald Trump. Honestly, this is as much of his face as he’s shown on a public street in New York in years. He does *not* mingle with the hoi palloi. All those crispy-grilled burgers and tall Cokes he quaffs are takeout delivered upstairs…

For the past six months, Trump has arranged his campaign so that most of the money it raises will funnel into the Trump Organization.

Oh you Century 21 whippersnappers have no conception of how deep the rapid-transit capsule concept goes.

Actually the Left would be hugging and kissing you and offering to counsel you about that terrible experience in high school, the one you’ve never been able to move past that hangs like a shadow over all your adult relationships. They’re kind of emotionally accessible that way.

What’s actually happening is that Trump is being much more closely watched by his family now than last month. They treat him like the pet chimp who wears clothes to the dinner table (but won’t miss a chance to bite your face off) and the duty of watching Daddy is resented but necessary to business. If you don’t watch…

You say you can’t understand why HBO’s Westworld is solely about the Wild West, since you don’t find the Wild West compelling. Maybe it’s not all about you.

*sigh* It would have to be a 3DO revival unit for me. And that’s not in the cards. At once too obscure and too litigious to ever happen.

A guy can reach into a desk drawer and pull out an intercom to Hell without being trite on this show, it just plays with the scene. That’s a show better than nine-tenths of the Prime Time lineup.

High-heeled battle boots? One of her super powers must be Tendonitis.

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