Echoing somebody else below, you do understand the concept of an expert witness, right? I know the internet promotes in all of us a remarkable drive toward Dunning-Kruger, but really? Are you also the guy who shouts out “Were you there?” to the Biology professor lecturing about Evolution?

There’s a reason I don’t touch these stupid books anymore.

Heck, focusing on all the criminals between here and Alpha Centuri is still a microscopically selfish application of all the knowledge of the universe... and Batman is supposed to be defined by his selflessness and self-sacrifice. If he were just plain old Batman, focusing on one city is a workable scope... but Batman…

He has all the knowledge of the universe and he’s focused on criminals in Gotham? What idiot wrote this story? At minimum, shouldn’t he be focused on all the criminals on Earth?

You watched it more than once! Dear god. What a job you have.

Dude, you do realize I was joking, right?

Oh, I know how stupid people can be. It’s just that when I looked at that device, I thought of the time machine in “Napoleon Dynamite.” I can hardly imagine all the unique things that might go wrong with a box like that... it’s sort of like the Bene Gesseret box from Dune, except that you don’t stick your hand in this…

A game experience or a movie experience can be way more immersive to me if I don’t start out with simple objections about the practicality of a design. ‘Cool’ is sometimes not enough.

I agree; the first I looked at that, I said, “Nope, can’t work!”

Sounds like a really embarrassing trip to the emergency room.

This sort of thinking does not appear to be completely uncommon. Others are thinking about it. I saw a physics colloquium last week presented by a fellow from United Launch Alliance talking about the prospect of a sustainable space economy and he suggested that getting water from various sources around cis-lunar…

And, lest I forget to say it, fuck the censorship around here: no comment I make ever goes above the gray, no matter how nice it is.

In my own opinion, BAA has a lot of characters in it that Robert Rodriguez would probably identify with pretty well. “Desperado” has the same sort of environment and characters as one might see in the Scrapyard.

I think that’s actually one of the tankouban covers. Alita doesn’t look like that pretty much ever. Robert Rodriguez might not be a bad match for this particular subject matter.

x=8 meters, time for that trip is 98 seconds. As opposed to about 104 seconds for all water and 110 seconds for all land.

I know people love that game, but dear god was it broken.

Hmm. So this one actually has the background to really put up in her choice genre. Color me interested.

“That doesn’t mean we should welcome stuff like E. coli into our bodies”

“And Terran immune systems are very powerful. Allergic shock kills many people, and it seemed to me possible that an alien would have that effect on our immune systems, either correctly or incorrectly, in terms of diagnosing a threat.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if we lived in a world where people in positions of power stopped to listen to the little guy? Tell me you haven’t read that word ten times today out of people who are using it more to try to convey competence rather than because they actually had an idea worth reading. As I’m the only one who will…