Dark matter is the standard starship fuel in Futurama. It’s like the gasoline of the future.

+1 for the pun.

A beer right before bed sounds like a good way to wake up an hour later to pee.

Yeah, blood is symbolic here. It doesn’t get digested; it’s absorbed as life force or something.

Yeah, We3 is just about the saddest thing possible, even though it kind of has a happy ending.

Probably.

But it’s a pretty good concept. That makes it ripe for a remake.

How contemporary does “today” mean? I’m tempted to nominate some ‘80s comics like Watchmen or The Sandman. The medium is still fighting for respectability but it will get there eventually, with special thanks from works like those.

I’d settle for the one we live in.

In the vacuum, the speed of light is c and that’s the speed limit. Inside a material, light will go at some characteristic speed that is slower than c. Now, within the material, sometimes other particles can go faster than light (although still slower than c). When that happens is when Cherenkov radiation is produced.…

Ah, but that 14 billion years is part of the vastness we are talking about here. Why is the universe even that old? How did it last that long?

I’d figure that the Enterprise vastly outguns the Falcon. In a stand-up fight, Falcon is atomized. But this is part of the point in Star Wars; the Rebel Alliance beats the Empire with an armada of clunkers because they are the underdog heroes. The Federation only employs state of the art, however.

More science per dollar (by far!) is obtained from unmanned probes and whatnot.

I’m pretty sure it was the guy who shot it down who's the libertarian asshole in this scenario.

OK, this seems to address my question from another comment. What’s meant by “wetness” is that it is clingy?

I’m still fairly confused here. What exactly is trying to be explained? I was thinking of “wetness” as just being something like “the property of being covered in a liquid, maybe water.” So the wetness of water would be kind of a tautology. Obviously something else is meant here.

That game was great (and beautiful) but so effin’ hard!

Hooray for Runaways! I had no idea this was happening.

Homeschoolers usually don't believe in magic.

Safety wands.