once again a Cards game is tarnished by an infield fly.

In the sequel the aliens will first run windows update and do a virus scan before invading. The next wave will be a lot harder to defeat.

May our children forgive us.

Count me in. I'd heard that the treatment Emmerich wanted to give it was a post-war society rebuilding its cities and salvaging the alien tech for its own use. It'd be interesting to see it just from a world-building perspective. After all that world-destroying, natch.

My friend is getting married at the end of this month, and I was telling his best man that he should use the president's speech for his toast at the reception.

My first thought, too. And not just humans. By what time is "native" defined? Nearly every species today evolved in some significant way from something *before*. Who's to say at what point something is native? If its species evolved there? Maybe the family? Or the class? The kingdom? At some point, all life on dry…

The first thing to consider would be the method by which they would "be gone."

What defines "native?" Would all humans outside of northern Africa/western Asia die? Isn't the migration of species (regardless of the interaction with other species, like humans) a natural process of the evolution of an ecosystem?

Including humans?

Wait, if the ISS is the Enterprise...

This might be my favorite moon photo of all time now. Couldn't be the Enterprise though. No lens flare in the shot.

Wow. Holy shit. Thank you for sharing this with us. My deepest sympathies go out to you. You must be in so much anguish! I know from experience that a bad relationship can make you feel unworthy of love, and of help. But that's just not true. No one in the world deserves to be hurt and manipulated by their partner. No…

I can't stop following this story, in large part because I am in a similar situation. After touching me inappropriately- not often but often enough- throughout 9 years of marriage- the straw finally broke the camel's back when my husband punched me in the face 6 weeks ago. Up until then it was things like what…

The only times you should physically control someone's body is if they are about to be hit by a train, or you are preventing your toddler from running headlong off a roof. Two adults sitting at a table? NO. Unless Nigella is secretly made of helium, was about to shoot through the roof, and the release valve is in her…

I know; I'd be the first to rip it to shreds if it actually existed. The internet is such a sinister place when it comes to cutting people down; I don't condone that at all.

I would agree, except that Yelp is abused by aggressive people trying to destroy others, and I could see that happening here too.

This is why i Internet. It allows me to get my work done.