Your childhood education is not out of date, at least in this regard. Plasma is still around, and still mysterious and poorly understood. It's generally divided into two broad categories: fusion research (the field's traditional emphasis) and space plasmas.

There are tons of different kinds of phase transitions in…

It still is one. And plasma physics is a fairly big area of research because it's something you need to understand to do nuclear fusion (in a tokamak at least, I'm not sure whether you need plasma for that laser ignition one in the US ). And stellar structure and suchlike. Plasma TVs are going out of fashion a bit…

So far as I know, plasma is a fundamental state of matter aside from gases, liquids and solids—really only listed as fundamental because it's so common.

Plasma is just old-hat compared to BEC, or superfluids, or neutron degenerate matter, or quark-gluon plasma, etc, so no one really talks about it anymore.

Plasma has been reclassified as "unknowable." I've already said to much. They'll be around for you shortly.

I can't believe this movie is already in the making.

This combined with Google Goggles basically makes my phone a Pokedex.

Heaven forbid we travel more than 12 hours to do something we enjoy. So I guess anyone who travelled to Europe should have just had a meth addiction instead, too?

Really? You'd rather someone's life be ruined by a potentially lethal illegal drug, than for them to have a hobby they deeply enjoy that you don't approve of?

On it.

Somehow, upon reading this, my first thought was to think of whether this also meant that the universe hated left-handed people, because that seemed perfectly logical. Then I had this mental image of a neutrino dressed like Inigo Montoya saying it wasn't left handed.

A Wold Newton family tree would have been nice.

I agree. I'm hoping they cool it with that after another couple episodes and they can start taking it for granted that everyone is on the same page about this being a Marvel tv show.

"Netflix would be an absolute great place to launch a Runaways series. Right?"

She mentioned how beautiful it was outside, that was the extent of weather talk!

fair enough. i suppose by sentient i meant intelligent, capable of understanding language, emotions, etc. you can talk to a pokemon and it will understand you; it is not so with a cow.

I think he's giving stats on the movie, not the review.

Think he meant highly intelligent (around human level), sentience is commonly used incorrectly.