@Dragoona: Yeah, there's a lot of Dr. Who related sites, and Blogter Who really is one. There's another one called Gallifrey Base, you can go there if you want to get into very detailed discussions/disputes about Whovian things.

@moetop: I hadn't made that connection till you pointed it out, but I think you are absolutely right.

I've got to agree with Annalee, this is covered in awesome-sauce. Wow! It makes me wish I knew Russian so I could get the lyrics without the subtitles. I'm going to have to check out this band's website.

@Shamatta: Thanks for the heads-up on iTunes availability. Is the $15 season price for SD or HD?

@Cameroo: You know, that's a good observation! It does look a lot like their classic wizard logo.

@Strakus: I've heard of the system you described. It appropriately is known as The Doomsday Device.

@MarlboroTestMonkey7: Maybe so, if goats like licking salt as much as cattle & deer do, they are no doubt very grateful.

@LittleDragon: Yeah, it looks like it's saying, "We're Mountain Goats, it's what we do!"

# 9 is really interesting. We rarely think of clams, mussels, or other bivalve mollusks having a free swimming larval stage before they settle in and become sedentary filter feeders. In fact the larva of certain freshwater mussels are parasites on the gills of fishes.

@Jonathan Stainton: That's a pretty good idea. Maybe the beacon or signal the Nostromo was sent to investigate in the original Alien film was from the humans that encountered the Spackejocky(s) & Aliens? I always thought it weird that a Spacejocky beacon or signal would have been detected by and reacted to by…

@ceptri: No, you seem to have a very valid point. That's been a subject of discussion ever since the prequels were announced. My guess is they feel that there have to be humans in order to give the audience characters to relate with, like in the first Alien vs Predator film. I'd have to guess that these humans…

@peon47: It may yet be explained on Dr. Who. Maybe this is just their way of getting the fans used to the idea before they bring it out with more information as to why there was a limit and why now there isn't?

@Bootknife-Jackson: I think it's on the alien ship, which was buried beneath the ice. If I remember, that's where the Norwegians found the Thing originally. Interesting question though, was this ship constructed & operated by the Thing's species? Or alternately, is it a case like the Aliens/Space Jockeys where the…

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: No problem! I believe you are absolutely right. A space elevator would be a totally game-changing technology, and would make getting humans to orbit cheap and safer, and also would allow cargo to be lifted at low-cost.

Ironically, just the other day io9 had an article discussing the "failed" Soviet lunar program:

For people interested in the Russian Space Program or the previous Soviet Program, there is an excellent and detailed resource called the Russian Space Web:

@maciver: Good points indeed. Whith a few exceptions like carpenter bees being used to pollinate some trees, and bumble bees being used to pollinate greenhouse tomatoes, honeybees are our only viable pollenator for flowering crops.

@The Squid: I'd point out the honey bees in North America are no more natural than cattle. Both are domesticated species brought from other continents for agricultural purposes. We are not meddling with nature when we try to protect bees from these infections anymore than when we medicate cattle to prevent a disease.…

@MoldyGrapes: If you can't pay for books, your public library is definitely the place to go. Mine has e-book and audio-book download options.

@spidersthrash: You can also listen to Peter Watt's "The Things" read by Kate Baker. Clarksworld issued it in podcast form in January of this year. It's a very good story told from the alien's point of view: