This sounds like a honeypot. It gets people who commit crimes to admit - and even provide evidence of - those crimes.  Then law enforcement gets that info, maybe does parallel construction to hide the honeypot, and arrests the ecoterrorists.

This is likely similar to the NERVA engine developed in the ‘60s, which was ground tested but never used in flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA  It used hydrogen as propellant, heated but not burned.

Surface got weird at the end. Like submarines to survive the apocalypse or something. I tend to think it would have sunk anyway.

Stargate Universe was the best version of Lost In Space I’ve ever seen. Including the latest Netflix one. Dr. Smith-I-mean-Rush wasn’t some maniacal, paranoid, or psychotic villain. He was single-minded, but he had reasonably good reasons for what he did. And he still got them into (and out of) trouble.

You’re pretty close. Another study says “Electric vehicle batteries alone could satisfy short-term grid storage demand by as early as 2030,” with less than half of EV batteries doing V2G. (Vehicle to Grid)

I’m not worried about a lithium shortage, because CATL is already manufacturing sodium-ion batteries. They’re not as energy-dense as lithium batteries, but if we build enough charging stations they’ll work fine.

Obviously, Momoa regrets the first time he had to leave Atlantis, and he just wants to get back there forever.

Clearly no one can pick a better series than my favorite. It is Invincible!

Recent advances in AI have me wondering how soon it might be “easy” - for various definitions of “easy” - to turn a screenplay into a 3D animated movie.

We have:
- Automated text writing with ChatGPT - but if the screenplay is already written that’s irrelevant. Probably.
- Automated background scene generation with…

Pyrolysis of CO2 does, in fact, create graphite.  But it uses a whole lot of energy to do so.  Not counting what it takes to extract the CO2 from the atmosphere.

They said the R-rated part was character development. So, I’m guessing, F-bombs they couldn’t remove for some reason? (I mean, come on, people, for a movie like this you could afford to deepfake-remove swearing.)

I found your new vaccine mascot:

How can I power thee? Let me count the ways...

Here’s a map and/or list of the states:

May the light of my star free you from Sauron’s corruption of your puns!

As long as they’re selling Batman, they should throw in Batgirl too. After all, it would make more than zero money that way.

The very first time I saw Avatar, back in 2009, immediately after the movie ended, I thought it was going to be the next Star Wars.

Donald Trump is becoming the new OJ Simpson! Think about it: They both buried their ex-wives, and they both got in trouble for trying to hang on to souvenir footballs!

I take another lesson from this: Underground bunkers won’t protect us from climate change!

They did have weed the first season.  They seem to have toned that down since.