But each set of circumstances (presence of birds, impairment/competence of pilot, mechanical status) is entirely independent of the set of circumstances from each of your previous flights.

Meet the pilots. Take off, eh.

I don't understand this point, in both the articles and the comments, that Oblivion was a failure. On what basis? $120 million budget, $280 million worldwide gross. So not a financial failure. 7/10 stars on iMDB. That's not gangbusters, but it's not a failure either.

And Elysium falls in the grey middle area?

Probably the worst offender in this department is the famous barrel escape scene from the city of the woodland elves.... in the movie, it becomes an enormous, bloated scene with Kili flirting with Tauriel for what seems like an hour, and then a giant elf vs. orc vs. dwarf battle as we zoom through the CGI froth of the…

The show is much, much better. All of this season has been good to excellent — and its been good in non-flashy, fundamental ways that make me think it's going to stay good for the foreseeable future. Overall, I'd say season 4 is the best (and most consistent) the show has ever been, and that definitely includes the…

Carter's new sidekick is an HR plant.

Damn, he was on this in 1997? I'm mixed on Greg Bear, but I might have to check that out.

Scary? If they're not anonymized, sure.

Well, considering how complicated the waste stream of post-industrial society is, I'm not at all surprised that human waste, from human machines, is at least that complicated.

"Ahead of it's time" is a misnomer. It assumes time is linear, when in fact time is a bunch of wibbly wobbly yadda yadda yadda.

Julie Andrews. I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

Downbelow Station

We're just a few steps (or APIs) away from the Google connecting Google Earth to the whole of the Internet and (re-)creating the Earth application in Hiro's study...

Been there! (Playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)

Is it just me or are some of those episode names for Defiance songs? Or better said, I know names of songs like some of them, is it potentially episode related or hinting at what's to come?

"Upgrade time!"

hasn't everyone learned the lesson of Watchmen, that when you have a "superman" everyone else is useless? What does a god need with a sidekick?

She was pretty badass in Alias as well as a Cuban Russian spy(I don't know...Alias was weird sometimes) to counter Sydney Bristow.