Re post poop ass-cleansing.

I hope they find a diary in that backpack revealing the Hospital chief surgeon, prize winning sharpshooter, Michelin-star chef with a heart of gold they passed up.

What a coincidence! Hurricane was on the radio as I read your answer.

"And Romney's biggest success as governor was to unite both Massachusetts Democrats and Republicans against him"

I refer to this particular BBC ailment 'Misfits Syndrome'. The only show able to pull this off seems to be Doctor Who.

He's a gifted swimmer.

I agree with many here, that a boundary has been crossed from journalism to voyeurism and page-views at any cost.

I watch things like last night's video tour of the ISS or read about recent breakthroughs in our understanding of dark matter and dark energy and I swell with pride for the species. Then I read something like this and wonder that we don't strip off our clothes and climb back into the trees.

The W.H. will respond via droids in an appropriate and timely manner.

Some of us can.

I imagine he's wondering why, with the power to reverse time, subjugate planets, swat aside galactic armies and make demigods cry uncle, he can't stop looking exactly like John Travolta.

Or evidence that death star is fully operational?

Phasers, photon torpedoes, saucer separation, transporters, deflector dishes, inertial dampeners, shields that stand up to warp core breaches with rotatable frequencies. *Big inhale here* Nanites, cloaking technology, replicators, looooong range sensors, Data and Jeordie monitoring the beast and Jean Luc at the helm.…

I'm guessing his name was Bugs, sounds like something he'd pull.

With a visual albedo of 0.47 Saturn should be shining much more brightly than it is in these illustrations.

All very interesting but I still want to know what happens when the USS Enterprise and the cube drop out of warp.

Barcelona has it's version.

Shouldn't "They Live" be on this list somewhere?

Really? Much of it sounds pretty inevitable to me. The thing I suspect they may be getting wrong through wishful thinking is the 'when' (not in any of our lifetimes). I'm curious, do you really think smarter than human AI will never come about?

Now all we need is a cybernetic, caped, armor clad being installed as president and our transition to movie-land villainy will be complete.