Remember, this is a newer version of the same RS-25 that we flew for decades on the Shuttle. It doesn't make it less cool to see the steam, and a long-duration firing, but unfortunately, this isn't a huge advance of the state of the art. Which is unfortunate, because we desperately need one.

Ahh yes. The RS-25. Designed to fly multiple missions with the space shuttle will now be dumped in the ocean after a single use.

Going to mars on chemical rockets is stupid. We will not go to mars with this. We might loft heavy stuff into orbit. Just like we won’t go to mares in the Orion capsule. Because a year in a…

I had a theory that Rob never actually got out of the black hole. He’s been stuck on the ship the whole time and his guilt and cabin fever are causing him to hallucinate.

Gateway is great. The first sequel is good. The rest are meh.

Honestly, this chart has either been created by a fanboy without a clue about the history of movies as well as art, or it is the product of a sales droid at Disney.

Alien was a serious remake of the Dan O’Bannon/John Carpenter comedy Dark Star which predated Star Wars by years and had the same future imperfect aesthetic ideas.

Oh, Johnathan? Yeah he’s a good kid. Long story short, he’s from Winnipeg, so it’s not really his fault, but try to be a bit more sensitive about it... It’s not by choice.

I’ll see you and raise you one hog castration ad.

I miss Jean Chretien and the days when the PM was a complete dick and owned it.

Oh good god. There are zero people who can’t afford grains in the united states because someone else is eating meat. You want to talk about the price of veggies? Okay, we can talk, but grains are dirt, dirt, dirt cheap, and we’re not seeing an inflation based on meat consumption.

And over this time period, how much did the world population increase? Something like 4.5 times (yeah, I know I’m rounding a little). If you don’t want agricultural water use to increase, you could, y’know, quit having babies or something. Also - overall daily consumption of meat has gone up and meat production…

The nice thing is that the same convexity that allows things to rebound after an upset also works to limit our impact regardless of how profitable it may seem to us. Should we find a way to turn air to shit for a dollar a pound, we’d do it; but we’d eventually stop (not before finding a more profitable way to turn 2…

Two things. First, I don’t buy that those trailers are the reason the movie bombed. They’ve got all the stuff you’d think you need - explosions, thrilling fights, good looking stars, basic exposition. No reason to think adding more Cruise-in-peril would change anything. I’m, not saying I know why it flopped, just that…

I liked the happy ending, our real world is shit enough for me.

I thought it was good up until the kiss. Everything after that went too bland and generic to take seriously.

I managed to stay away from the trailers and went into the film blind (I’d only decided to go and watch it thanks to the positive buzz) and I was pretty blown away. The most impressive thing for me (aside from Emily Blunt, the humour, the action, a very good Cruise performance and Bill goddamn Paxton) was the aliens…

I suggested wiki because it is a fairly accesible place for a layman to start learning about the different climates in the Earth’s history.