Accent... Trelane.

no flight helmet for the fishbowl plane, all you need are cool fingerless gloves. Did you know fingerless gloves are cool now?

left out the transformation from drone repair schmoe to invincible supa-soldier

yeah, or at least have Astro get it good and hot with a hair dryer.

Pen knife? More like a tactical knife.

Sand People, but yes - nailed it.

Here is a little diagram of the "seating" position in the ball turret. There is a good description of life in the turret on these missions here: http://home.comcast.net/~ralph608/ballturret.htm

I heard a rumor it will be in 14 parts, and the Director's Cut Blue Ray will be 43 parts.

I was waiting for an explanation about how more plate tectonics = surface water, and I have to say no satisfactory answer was provided. Sound like a great leap in this idea to me...

Love Nathan, Love Firefly, but am I the only one who thinks Serenity needs to unload some cargo?

that wasn't a dragon - it was Rudolph shilling for some cold remedy.

what if you don't have a sister

and they have a whole plan to use these space planes to build a mission to Mars:

Yeah, what he said. If they wanted to go to college they coulda lived in the gutter and ate from dumpsters to save their coin for tuition.

Right, them poor people just can't go to college. Screw 'em. There are ditches to dig, somewhere. Maybe in china.

fantastic.

More likely risk scenario would be a virus that keeps a particular bacteria in check. But this treatment seems to target a specific virus, so it seems unlikely.

Any chance they can come up with something like that for cancer?

That's no island. It's a space station.

I wonder what the diatamaceous earth would do to the fungus.