Mulan as anyone.

As a kid, I remember being surprised that the dragon violated the old D&D rule that limited fiery breaths to three per day. But, I enjoyed the movie and had no idea that flopped.

I always imagined real merfolk tails to be like dolphin tails — without scales. Somehow that seemed more believable to me than hopping to the far side of the phylum.

Now I have to Rifftrax it.

I also enjoyed Celestial Matters.

Hmm. A little googling tells me that the Cro Magnon term is now deprecated. So, we are not Cro Mags after all.

Actually *we* are Cro-Mags. They are Kromaggs. This always bewildered me, and struck me as a strange choice by the writers. It mustn't have seemed as confusing in print.

Well, there's these guys. Sehlats.

"Outside of the skin and lack of hair, there didn't seem to be any other obvious difference between humans and Tenctonese biologically, as the couple seemed to be biologically compatible."

Exactly my thought as well.

We are the one.

Is it really because of Jenny McCarthy's ilk that some families avoid vaccination, or is there a religious motivation?

Me too, but, remember Clarke's "Indistinguishable from magic" notion. The internet version 9.0 would be like a psychic connection to us. I was struck that Darvin and Yuka are in love but have never met, while the series artists are creating something also without having met. There's something interestingly…

Of course it's not perfect. But no alternative to an amateur jury is perfect either.

scientist does not equal atheist.

"I think it has less to do with electorate education and more to do with money.

"they have adopted a fact based jurist system, no jury of peers not swayed by emotion or public opinion"

It seems more like, what are the chances that the Martians would choose it?

Yep. This makes my blood boil. One generation should not get to decide that no future generations may have access to an element. And we're actually subsidizing its frivolous use! I feel like we are the Easter Islanders who cut down all their trees.

Except that we've both read it.