So it’s more Philip K. Dick than Michael Crichton.

You can sleep on the balcony. *finger*

I don’t understand all the excitement. It’s just another Motel 6 — and as promised, Tom Bodett left the light on for us. No word on whether it’s pet-friendly, but then again, any motel with a back door can be made pet-friendly. :)

And the soundtrack was incredible, still listen to it regularly while writing.

Really? “One of the most celebrated sci-fi movies of all time”? I guess to some of us. Yeah, he freakin’ dropped the ball - neither the Russian or American version got the point of the book. I love Tarkovsky’s version - believe I stated that. But I don’t believe it holds a candle to 2001, which apparently Tarkovsky…

The place depicted (fancifully) on The Fountains of Paradise cover exists: an impregnable mountain fortress in Sri Lanka called Sigiriya. The final entrance to the summit was through the open mouth of a gigantic carved lion. Unfortunately, all that remain are the paws and central steps.

The day Sol swallowed Saturn.

**In Ukraine (not “the Ukraine”). I just got corrected on that myself recently, but it turns out that prefacing “Ukraine” by “the” implies that Ukraine is a region (as it was in the USSR, and was called “the Ukraine”), not a nation. Kind of semantically important due to current events and all. Who knew?

Damn, I never considered that Titan and Ganymede were almost as big as Mars. Freaky.

Yeah, I just saw that it got eaten: http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/planet_co…

With the same URL. I’m just that good.

You demon from hell - you Rickrolled me twice.

Witness me! I rise, I set, I rise again! Witness!

I’m impressed how they are using names of evil entities. Cthulhu from H. P. Lovecraft, Balrog from The Lord of the Rings, and Dick Cheney from the George W. Bush administration.

Live under high voltage transmission lines and get lighting for free!

Yes, Zardoz is better. Than a lot of things, actually.

But Zardoz IS better.

I think a better Sci-Fi example of the problem is...