It's too bad they won't be able to portray the full extent of Tyrion's injuries as they are in the book.

Sounds like a perfect place to build the niner zombie preparedness bolt-hole.

We don't call them civilians anymore. They're 'enemy combatants' now.

Thank you Pedantic Boy. Captain Obvious ran that way.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Well, Animal Farm was lifted directly from Russian history and 1984 pretty accurately predicted the cold war, so yeah. They were pretty grounded in reality.

So... Where would one acquire sulphuric acid? For reasons.

Revolution might be fun, if they can quickly and plausibly explain why gasoline doesn't work but gunpowder does.

<3ed for informativeness.

It should be noted that there are HIV-immune humans, and bone marrow transplants from this group can potentially cure the disease in non-immune populations.

That is not how you science.

The weather is just collaborating in the hoax. Reality has a well known liberal bias.

I can't believe no one's posted this.

I also pretty much only read sff, at least fictionwise. There are a lot more books to choose from than TV, though.

I'd guess the median is two. With Fringe wrapped up I'm only watching Game of Thrones.

I can't say that I watch anything else, but then I watch very little anyway.

I'm not suggesting we abandon the spending. I'm suggesting we use it to build rather than destroy.

I've got a more radical proposal that could fund this, and lots of other mega projects:

The site is being hammered right now, so I can't see what he's actually proposing. That said, you would need an area outside the saucer section for the physical plant, power generation, and thrust. There's no need for those things to be under gravity and it would make the design a lot more complicated if they were.

The US could slash it's defence budget by well over 80% and still have the best funded military in the world.