As a 10 year veteran of visual effects I welcome my new coworkers. Just remember only 1 out of every 10 shows are any good. So, hunker down, lower your expectations, and get a good outdoor hobby. ;)

nods knowingly

Read them as an adolescent. And I'm very glad a movie was never made.

that I would watch

I like to imagine that Ai is in the Alien/Predator Universe.

Get me her mitochondria.

Ai is part of the Alien universe.

What about the cicada killer wasps?

Nope. Many insects only eat during their larval stage. The adults have neither mouth or anus.

I've worked at places where a book cover like that would be poo-pooed if someone was looking over my shoulder.

Oh, I got all weepy there at the end.

Huge fragments orbiting, megalopolis Dyson flakes (stays quiet, even in space).

+1

I'll be the naysayer. I liked reading it, but doubt that I'll pick it up again. The only thing that grated on me was the endless 80's trivia. Maybe I'm just an old fart, having been an adolescent back then.

If you take an arbitrary line down the middle and think of that as the background then the other two pop out at the same time.

Nah, just make everything wet and goey like a rainforest.

The only question is which to bill first in the double feature night!

When in doubt wait for it to come out on video, and change the audio track to French. You can still have your delicious eye candy and none of the plot.

Yes, I think it might be sperm competition. Eeking out the last squooge of evolutionary fitness. "The Dawn of Sex" goes into this. They show evidence that leads to all sorts of lascivious implications about our ancestral reproductive strategies.

Makes sense to me. Seems like something we should be able to test for somehow. Maybe with billiard balls?