An hour in and that kid started looking pretty tasty.

Those people at the end of The Road were totally cannibals.

Have to throw in some Magic: the gathering action. Sword of Body and Mind is both awesome to look at and awesome to use.

I think this movie and Zardoz are two different kinds of beasts. Zardoz is more like an elephant to a man who has never seen an elephant before. This movie is more like a teenage mutant ninja turtle......

There are actually a number of projects already working at the nanometer level. They're just prohibitively expensive. Five years sounds about right :P

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.

This just shows that you should tell your family about being uploaded. Of course reactions may be similar at first, but when (and if) this technology gets popular, body will be just a physical avatar that can be changed any time.

Fire Upon the Deep

Love the robots. They have a much more authentic "manufactured" feel than most. Barely understood a word of the mumbled voiceover.

I agree Richard Dawson was pretty great, but now I have to ask: What material were his shoes made of that nobody could feel them? There's no info on Wikipedia about these shoes you speak of.

Hi Derek, Nietzsche and some of his ideas are deeply embedded in this book. I hope you'll read it and let me know what you think. Thanks, Zoltan Istvan

Dyson's original proposal was for swarms, although his choice of words made that unclear. Freeman Dyson clarified what he meant during a discussion with Poul Anderson in Science, Vol. 132, 22 July 1960:

In reply to Maddox, Anderson, and Sloane, I would like only to add the following points, which were omitted from my…

Better be prepared ;)

The Friday before a long weekend?

Genuine curiosity: But why does such a (seemingly) large segment of fandom care so much if the science in a story is "hard?" I come from a more literary/artistic background, although I do have a heavy interest in the sciences. I keep up with science news; I read scientific academic papers (for fun!). But I've never…

If you read about Vlad, you might think he was a great guy.

Signs. Definitely signs.

The ending, when we realized water was their weakness, completely short circuited my brain, I spent a while wondering if perhaps I'd accidentally changed movies in the middle.

There is nothing wrong with a non-subtle comment on religion!