In relation to the the space program, the answer is obviously Obama. Next!
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Most of these answers were pretty generic, so I was struck by how specific Obama was about the superiority and overall importance of NASA'a unmanned space program. I get a distinct sense that that really is Obama talking, and that he really does genuinely appreciate and support the unmanned program.
The dissenting opinion in #5 is hilarious!
She fell prey to schizophrenia. Your callousness is unseemly.
Big-time thanks for this article. I know I can count on io9 to have a keen eye for thinkers who might otherwise fly under the pop-culture radar. Yeah — Firestone is a big deal in the history of radical feminism, techno-futurism, and feminist SF. Still cited all the time. A true visionary.
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Re: music: definitely a pastiche of Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1."
Good to see "Logopolis" getting some nods here. The sense of ominousness and foreboding running through that story really works. The mysterious and portentous Watcher, the cloister bells of the Tardis, and the overall plotline involving universal entropy and decay all create a wonderfully dark mood, and add up to a…
Re: Vader: Come to think of it, *all* the major characters in "Star Wars" have very good introductions. The droids, Leia, Luke, Kenobi, Solo — they all have memorable, iconic entrances or opening scenes.
Right there with you on that.
Got it! Thanks.
It confuses me that the descent of the heat shield looks choppier than the swaying of the landscape beneath.
Mohammed Salmodin Miya don't give a shit.
Part of what the phrase "'legitimate' rape" does is sneak the question of women making false accusations of rape into the discussion. It's an underhanded way of forcing a discussion of rape to *also* be a discussion of false accusations of rape. It's like saying "the controversial theory of evolution" every time you…
Great post, thanks. It highlights something about political rhetoric I've always found particularly insidious: the tendency of these sorts of politicians to pile so many *different* wrong things into one statement. Just focusing on the bad science risks giving the concept of "legitimate rape" some sort of credence. …
Go to it, Art Police.
Trying to understand what prior *successful* instance of this kind of show is leading the producers to attempt the present one.
I suspect sex is what he's alluding to in the "pros" section where he says "object to be beloved & played with".
The quotes around the word "regrew" don't necessarily imply "did not grow." "Regrew" could mean "re-formed in a technologically enhanced but non-natural way that can't quite be captured by the word 'regrew.'" And I believe this implication is what the headline writers intended. If the headline writers didn't want…