@Kayonesoft: Well then, we'd just get the replicators to make a couple of pounds of Higgs bosons. And we'd sprinkle them on our cereal. Which would also come from a replicator.

@Isotope: I find it charming.

@Machinetd: "We didn't find the Higgs Boson... but we made the Earth's atmosphere sentient. And people? The atmosphere is not happy with us".

@Jay042: Particles have to travel 42 furlongs before colliding.

@Darth Meow 504: That's why the cast all checked into rehab after principal photography: helium addiction. The scourge of Hollywood.

@Damn_Your_Sudden_But_Inevitabl...: I'd be waving and smiling and attempting to give her my phone number the whole time.

@phoghat: This is the terrible thing about living in Canada. If you strap a couple of bear arms over your everyday human ones and walk around, the cops will be on you in seconds. But if I drive over the border, suddenly it's cool.

@promethean_spark: Later on when Thor breaks out of the science lab, he hammers crates to find life-saving medical packs and Hammer Time power-ups.

I like that Natalie Portman describes her character as a 'real, frazzled, grounded female scientist - not the low-cut lab coat and sexy glasses kind of thing'. And who just happens to look like Natalie Portman.

@syafiqjabar of Mars: I heard that it's a thin high-pitched scream just within range of human hearing. That's going to be tough for the actors to pull off. Apparently cast members were fainting whenever their dialogue went on too long.

Erica Cerra does snarling homicidal rage really well. I imagine she was voted Most Likely To Tear You Apart With Her Bare Hands in her graduating class.

@Occula: I'd hate to get killed by someone going all gunkata on me. They'd be all, 'I'm not shooting you, I'm shooting at the point with the greatest mathematical likelihood of containing you'.

@HidingInCanada: I think when Stephen Moffat is writing an episode, the dirtiest possible interpretation always applies. If you doubt me, watch an episode of Coupling (not the US version, though).

@Valerie 'Foxy' E.: Hah! Actually I find Heinlein pretty tiresome. But don't tell anyone that.

@Occula: I realize you weren't being sarcastic - I was actually agreeing with you. After Equilibrium, it was pretty clear that Wimmer was capable of making a good science fiction film. Ultraviolet looked like it was released before the special effects were even finished.

This was the filthiest Doctor Who episode ever written. *Spoilers, obviously*. How could it be otherwise in an episode called "The Big Bang"?

@Occula: It couldn't possibly have been the cut that Wimmer intended. Nobody would look at Ultraviolet and say, "Yes, that is exactly what I was going for". It was like a few chunks of an interesting movie, with unfinished CGI to boot.

We should broadcast Rapper's Delight to the stars. We'd be recognized as the funkiest M-class planet in the quadrant, and the aliens would come running.

Moviegoers! Make your unpreparations!

@blatanville: No, it was just some light derailing of the conversation.