This is great. Should be required viewing.

I greatly admire the Apollo astronauts and honor all they have done, and while they are certainly entitled to an opinion as much as any citizen, they are not climate scientists.

Btw, "Philip" is Philip Chapman was a NASA astronaut from 1967-1972, but the Apollo 14 logo next to his photo is misleading; while he served…

Ok, ok - you convinced me I should see the film. But you don't indicate where we can see / purchase / download it. Is there a website for the film?

I don't get this visualization. The Europa droplet only looks to be about 20% bigger than the Earth droplet, not 2 to 3 times bigger. Am I missing something?

Nothing against Spain, but... why there?

I recognize this is a matter of taste, and I'm not suggesting total extermination of serif fonts.

But for io9? Really, dontcha think a more modern look would be more in keeping with the theme?

Might this not be an opportunity for io9 to re-evaluate its choice of font and go with something a little more modern?

(Sorry, I just hate serif fonts. Always have, always will.)

Which parties are most responsible is not as simple as it might casually seem. Smaller objects, being untrackable, are more hazardous than more massive objects; yet the breakup of the latter from the former would cause a greater problem.

See interactive graphic here. Russia has about 38% of total objects and 53% of…

If science doesn't approach questions that are based on premises already demonstrated to be empirically true (I'm referring to quantum behavior at macro scales, ex. in photosynthesis, etc., not Orch-OR) then it isn't science - it's faith-based ignorance.

I already made my point about testing hypotheses. Skepticism…

At a basic level, all biology - everything in the cosmos, in fact - is physics.

You appear to have already decided that the Penrose-Hameroff hypothesis is "nutty", which is, ahem, unscientific. If an idea is testable, and if experiments confirm it, then it's provisionally true. Period. I'm not saying that Orch-OR is,…

How much would it cost to buy the Firefly franchise from Fox? (Yes, I realize not all the cast - not to mention Whedon - are available, but still. Fox isn't doing anything with it.)

Note that the incremental (i.e. marginal) cost of a Shuttle flight was estimated to be $450b and we flew 2 or 3 of those a year. So it's not completely wacko. That said, I think there are probably better strategies (viz. fuel depots) than big rockets based on 40 year old technology.

Although if and when one of these…

The claim that "there has been no warming in the last 15 years" has been debunked.

(Not to mention that it cherry-picked the start date with an extraordinarily hot El Nino year.)

Dwight, I highly recommend the NYT article mentioned in the header. It is quite illuminating.

"We didn't spray ANYWHERE FUCKING NEAR the amount of pesticides now used on GMO crops, f*&%wit."

That depends on what one means by "pesticides", which technically refer to both insecticide and herbicide (insects and weeds both being "pests"). GMOs definitely use less insecticides (that's the entire point of Bt…

Umm - no.

@Otterlove: I can't say I enjoyed it the first time either, since we were just kind of baffled. A friend had a similar reaction but was determined to crack it. Once he told me "Faust in LA", I re-watched it and loved it. Everything John Goodman (the devil) says is a double entendre. Also watch for Steve Buscemi's…

Once you understand that it's "Faust, set in LA", it all makes sense.

Small nitpick: you misspelled "Bloomberg" two different times.

Yeah, I don't get all the hating on ST-ID. I liked it much better than the first JJ Trek movie, and that was also the strong consensus among the group of non-hardcore Trekkers (Trekkies?) I saw it with. Not the best movie I've ever seen, but a solid, entertaining movie.