I had no idea Bill Nye is Vulcan; awesome!

I did find that not looking at the tablet let me forget about the disconnect. I do probably 50/50 between the tablet and paper and it took me about a month of nothing but drawing to get used to the transition. Though every time I get a new tablet, I have to spend a couple days re-learning the boundaries.

Did yours require special paper to work? I haven't seen one that doesn't require it until the Inkling.

If you haven't already, give the Cintiq a try for a bit; after a week I ended up returning it and getting a standard tablet; it's a really nice piece of tech but, it was terrible for my posture. I hadn't noticed before how nice it was to be able to sit up straight and draw with the Intuos.

Farmville.

I lucked out as I use standard ballpoints for all my sketching - though I'm partial to papermate; hopefully they have mini refills widely available.

I guess it's two camps regarding sketching materials; most illustrators/artists I know use ballpoint or felt tip pens for sketching, and move on to their medium of choice afterwards.

I've always been an adherent to not erasing in sketches; It really stunts your ability to get ideas out. This is definitely not a product to produce finished artwork. Get the idea out with this, then refine it on the computer. If you make a mistake, just start a new sketch, or you can just keep going; by the time…

The electron is considered an elementary particle, meaning as far as we can tell at the moment, it has no sub-particles. It's likely that further scientific exploration will reveal that an electron is made of something else but, it seems it will probably be the the same thing other sub-atomic particles are composed…

But how well-versed in dragon combat were you? If you had doodled about the subject, things may have been different. I don't know from experience, mind you, my creature of choice was werewolves.

Diaspora was a really hard sell to the general public anyway.

Possibly my favorite form of theoretical interstellar travel.

I had forgotten about Hawking radiation; though the effect would be too small to perceive visually, it would probably look like a very cold star to the right instruments.

I think the video fudges things a bit for clarity; the other pictures I've seen of gravitational lensing that are not that distorted. Also, when the gas halo is formed, there is no distortion of the halo as it passes behind the area of the event horizon that is opposite the camera; I assume to better illustrate the…

But, even though the event horizon is a mathematical construct, it's result theoretically still has a real, observable effect, right? If we were able to safely orbit a black hole and be close enough to directly observe it, we would still see a black void where at the event horizon, correct? Discounting any…

The event horizon is actually the black spot in the video; though it's a bit hard to make out against the star background. It's not a halo because the black hole works in three dimensions so; the event horizon is a sphere around the singularity where the pull of gravity exceed the speed of light.

I'm not exactly sure where your confusion lies. The gravity comes from the mass of the singularity(black hole). The gas of the star orbits the black hole at high speeds and becomes super-heated, turning atoms like hydrogen into charged particles. These particles are swept towards the poles by the newly-created…

Earth: "OMG, Aliens!"

It might be less bonkers if every intelligent species in the universe with the capability to do so started turning dark energy into matter (assuming such as thing is possible).

As long as Pike's beeps out his the message with a little red light.