Well, maybe you can take solace in the thought that, within the reference frame of your own life, you are actually infinite. Works for me.

Too lazy now to re-google it, but the other day I read some Ridley Scott quotes and audience speculations. It is obviously supposed to be Earth and some kind of seeding (says Scott), but it is totally unclear exactly what is seeded. Obviously there is some kind of plant life (grass?) to be seen in that opening, so it…

Dinosaurs of course, silly.

Some 3,400 snake species on this planet...

Well, the source article mentions "disastrous geologic adjustments" and such, so I'd guess they included these effects in their calculations.

I see no reason to assume that "this analysis seems to assume that the centrifugal force is absent from Earth's water but still affects the Earth itself". What makes you think so?

How do we know that that planet the Engineer seeds was Earth? Didn't really pay attention when I watched it.

No link, no proof.

"The whole Peggy Carter of it all" is going to be my new phrase to express existential Weltschmerz.

Maybe that wasp has talent too? 7 billion people, but much less species on this planet, having one named after one is an honor, why complain?

The pun is bad only because the headline basically gives it away, IMHO.

Look for something resembling this:

"I wouldnt want anything having a way into my brain that I couldnt FULLY control, especially if you think about hackers and viruses."

The angle? What's that got to do with it?

Been wondering why they always hasten to get me in the sack. Unflattering explanation, though.

"Everything got put on hold for a generation," while civilization busied itself with figuring out the Internet.

Only if sitting around like a human offers some kind of evolutionary edge.

What a downer.