CBS killed it.

Um . . . Buckaroo Banzai?

It was aliens what turned the town into an human ant farm. No government involved.

Reckon how you put a giant footnote in a TV episode.

Late in the history of the Roman Empire, Theodoric the Goth took control of Italy from Odoacer by treachery. Two fake petitioners knelt and clasped Odoacer's hands, and Theodoric struck him with a sword. It is recorded that he "clave Odoacer from the collar-bone to the loin." That involves going through several ribs…

The Galileo story involves dropping two cannonballs, one large, one small, off the Leaning Tower. It is not to difficult to show that aerodynamic drag is sufficient to make them land at noticeably different times. In fact, that calculation is a standard homework problem in junior level mechanics texts.

God DAMN them are some big feet.

The Wire. Oh god, The Wire. Best drama ever, and the first episode of the second season was the most perfectly crafted television episode ever aired. Not SF, but it counts in the list of reasons why this is better than movies.

Philip K. Dick, pretty much everything. The essence of humanness is the capacity for kindness. Some of the most human things are alien or artificial.

What? No Naked Lunch?

Not surprised.

So experiments with babies are quite illuminating on this point. Some years ago, an experiment staged a simple puppet show. Three dogs playing with a ball. One throws the ball to another. The other either throws it back or runs away to keep it for himself. Then, an experimenter comes out from behind the stage and…

How many points do I get if I already knew all of this? And I bought the blueprints when they first came out.

After The Years of Rice and Salt, it is assumed to be shit until proven otherwise.

You should try Rienzi.

Both of them are pale shadows of Harpo's overcoat.

We all have toilets. We've all heard that the toilet water circulated counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere because of the Coriolis effect. Haven't we all seen that the toilet water is injected at an angle? And the fact that it spins clockwise in half the toilets?

Wait, no, . . . Wut? That's not what Kubrick said about space stations.

So nobody wants to put a portal in a portal?

I was gonna make a calamari joke but I can't top that one.