And here I was thinking the main thrust of the article was going to be Pluto’s large orbital inclination.

Amazon Web Services: not a panacea.

The Monstrous Manual is different from the Monster Manual. The former is a collection of the Monstrous Compendiums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous…), the latter is the primary source material.

Oh but yes. I read all of them. All. Plus the “Incarnations of Immortality” ones. Plus the singing magic alternative world ones. Plus the godawful “Space Tyrant” ones. Thinking back on it, wow... such horrible stuff.

Depends on the homeschoolers you hang around with. In general the secular ones are doing it just fine.

Homeschooling FTW.

I seem to remember a SciFi novel from the 80s, perhaps by Michael McCollum (Life Probe, Procyon's Promise) that talked about being able to detect spaceships traveling near the speed of light based on their light wake. Similar idea.

"Why would anybody want a regular lamp or other light source, when you can have these incredible neon sculptures instead?"

Yes... that's why I said "by region" and not "by language"... ;-)

Ha, I read that as "most distinct regular expressions". I was like, hmmm... I never realized there were regex dialects that varied by region... ;-)

Paranoia makes for a difficult bedfellow. Aliens are, well, alien. If they feel that nothing other than their own species should exist, that would do it.

I was thinking it takes some cues from both ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus (particularly that bridge and the guardian).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert_Kn… - Asimov's answer to IKEA instructions.

Dang, beat me to it. The chair scene has stuck with me for almost 30 years at this point. I was in a bit of shock for a good hour after reading it, similar to the ending of Dead Ringers.

I read that as "creepy ass-clown shoes" at first.

Now if only they could get a quickie out for that woman who is killing herself on November 2 because she has glioblastoma.

A jet needs to be able to land on 60% of the runway it can take off from. A 747 can take off from a 6000 foot runway (I don't know what the jet in the show was, but just as an example)., which means that it can land in 3600 feet. Let's assume that they didn't care if the jet took off again if it landed because they…

If the runway was too short to land on, how was it long enough to transfer a backup at 200mph...?

Nope, don't use scoopable or clumping litter at all. We've had at one point 24 cats; we currently have 4 indoor cats. By far the best litter system we've used is Tidy Cat's Breeze. It's cheaper than even cheap clumping litter once you've bought the base ($35) and there's no smell or tracking around to speak of - maybe…

Meh, we've been using our Maytags for about 11 years now. I had to repair a thing on the dryer ($5 part), and the bearings are starting to go on the front-loading washer like they all do eventually, but considering how much we use the things (we have boys and used cloth diapers, 2-3 loads per day at least) they've…