One thing I wanted to get into but didn't find a space for was the idea, which the Wiki page spells out in better detail, that there are some theories like Newtonian physics, which have been superseded by newer work, but most scientist still say, "eh, close enough," because it is accurate unless you're doing something…

Yeah, your argument doesn't really hold up. As this week's article demonstrates, scientific inquiry has a lot of dead ends. Some of Newton's work proved to be correct and was far ahead of its time, some of it didn't. But that doesn't devalue the correct stuff. Michael Jordan missed plenty of jump shots too, that…

One of my big disappointments with Fringe was that we never found out what Walternate was up to. They were always hinting at some grand scheme, which got retconned out of existence when they changed the timeline. I still maintain the first three seasons of that show are the best sci-fi ever put on television, but they…

Joker gas is actually on the list multiple times (as sometimes it's Joker Toxin, Smylex, etc.)

Well, sure, but you could explode by 10 times your size and still explode, without it being quite so ridiculous.

Well, the idea was that someone on the other side (either William Bell or Walternate) was testing this stuff out for when someone hard to kill came along — either the Observers, or just our side in general. The show rewrote there mythology so many times it's hard to know what they were going for there. But the idea…

Yoda gives a poetic, mythic explanation of the Force — "Life creates it. It surrounds us, binds us," etc. It sounds like not only magic, but the very magic that holds the entire universe together. To say that turning into what's basically an STD cheapens the whole thing would be a Chewbacca-sized understatement.

Like I said last week, I try not to step on your toes, but that one was too good to pass up. And I set myself up early on with that "Controversy" bullet point, and often there is none in the main article. But there's always controversy on the Talk page!

Hey, I'm good at researching things on the internet and expounding, not at HTML tags!

Everybody's rappin' like it's a commercial!
Actin' like life is a big commercial!

Also, worth mentioning that while Iceland is one of the only countries that uses the patronymic naming system, Mongolia is actually still on the "Worf, son of Mogh" system — Mongolians have never used proper surnames, although I think that may be starting to break down in recent years.

Chunder? Stupid monkeys.

Columbus being first probably has something to do with it.

I actually try not to go to the Talk page too often, as I enjoy Talk Page Highlights and don't want to rob @unexpected_dave:disqus of material. Fortunately, there's nearly always enough pointless discussion on the Talk page to go around.

I had so many fake titles saved up for future Newswires, and now I'll never get to use them! Friday Night Lightsabers! Cloud City With A Chance Of Meatballs! Full Metal Bikini! Much Naboo About Nothing! All gone to waste!

Damn it, I always get my Hustons confused. Sorry about that, I should have double-checked.

Because he tweeted about the video.

Yes! Somebody call SyFy, or possibly the History Channel (or Hystyry, or whatever they're called now). We've got a hit on our hands!

Yeah, I pretty much wrote that whole section so I could include that phrase. I saw that plaque in New Orleans a few weeks ago and have had "maelstrom of pirates" in my head ever since. I swore I took a picture of the whole plaque, because it had some equally good turns of phrase, but I don't seem to have that picture…

DAT'S THE JOKE.