If it doesn't use nukes for propulsion, it isn't Orion.

I think that's how Lovecraft came up with the concept.

Unspoiled pffft...the Elder Things are there.

Where is the "leave me alone" slider?

Moontrap. Walter Koenig and Bruce Campbell.

Prediction: this movie will tank, and the smug antitheists will crawl back into their holes until next Easter.

Dogs don't want to stare at the sun while taking a crap. Everyone knows that.

The Google patent sounds just like Alastair Reynolds beta-level AI's. They were basically simulations of a (formerly) living person.

I like PoI because it's one of very few shows that can surprise me. The Shaw scene moved me - you could see that for all her supposed emotionlessness, being rejected as a doctor hurt - and she went and joined the military, a place where being emotionless is an advantage. And having Fusco bring Simmons in and Elias…

I was wondering why it exploded so suddenly...in the video at the link you can see the guy inserted a spear or something and popped the whale like a balloon. A big, putrifying organ filled balloon. My hero.

So technocrats are basically progressives, or neo-progressives. Politicians and bureaucrats (and scientists, I suppose) who know whats good for you.

Yeah...in Nolan's original novel Logan's Run, the age limit was twenty-one. And it wasn't much of a utopia otherwise, unless you were a violent psychopath.