Steven Barnes wrote a novel, Lion's Heart, where Socrates flees to Carthage instead of committing suicide. Africa wins the punic wars, and eventually colonizes the new world. I started the novel, and was enjoying the writing. But the human suffering portrayed in some passages was so heart-wrenching, I couldn't get…

How could it have a continuous view of the Earth if the Moon itself is in the way?

I'm laughing out loud. In my mind I'm actually hearing that in John Lithgow's voice.

Yup. The useful subset.

I like your question. it's thoughtful. Gravity's determined by the mass and radius of the Earth. Inhabitants of a planet the same size as ours, but with more mass, would feel heavier. Ditto for a planet with the same mass, but of smaller size.

Actually, no. Corey is lipsyncing to Moosebutter's album. But his presentation was cool, and his version/interpretation exploded on youtube.

"...but thing is that science often needs it more than it should :P."

"...I'd say it could learn a fair bit."

What does science have to learn from philosophy?

Wasn't The Killer Shrews also MSTified? Or do I just remember it that way?

No, really. It's precisely because the universe is so vast that we can't be completely open minded, or else we'd never get anything done. We can't reinvent the universe every time we need to bake a apple pie.

"Ugg would walk 500 miles to meet her."

Imagine an HBO Star Trek. Or a Breaking Bad styled one. You know, television that was actually... good.

Yes. I can't quite put my finger on it. I think the blue is a little too pastel.

Well done!

Very well done, and darn, you beat me to it.

Sedna's cool and all, but shouldn't it have been red?

+1 sadlarious

How I miss that show!

I'm embarassed to say I learned this watching the old Planet of the Apes television series.