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It seems to me, from what I understand from coroners, that [death from murder] is really rare. If it's a legitimate murder, the human body has ways to try to start the whole thing up again.

Chattel is probably about right for a Human/Cthulhu partnership then, no point even entertaining the idea that that relationship is going to be equal.

Alien/Human partnerships could do interesting things to the language of marriage: We have terms for men and women, but what if another species has only one sex? or more than two?

Great world building (and I like the Waiting for Godot-ish loop too).

“Mr Jameson and erm…?” Asked the receptionist, peering up from his clipboard with a confused brow.

AUDITION, though it was actually one I (and possibly many others) wasn't aware of when I saw it thanks to rather spoilery box art and reputation. But years later I heard a recounting of it by critic Mark Kermode, who actually saw the film blind at a festival, knowing nothing other than it was Japanese, and I

The Savage Planet/The Fantastic Planet/Le Planète Sauvage kind of sits with the "Didn't think humans were intelligent" example. The alien race in that are so much bigger and longer lived than people that they view them basically as rats, unintelligent pests that live and breed too quickly and need to be regularly

This is new research and you won't even consider that it has any value unless someone gives you a fully detailed practical outcome right this moment? You've already been given one example of a product based on previous similar research that already exists and is purchasable, but that isn't good enough, so someone else

Considering just how un-Randian the idea of making a second movie in spite of the colossal failure of the first is, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a trilogy film project at all but the worlds biggest experiment into the effects of irony on human ideologues.

"This Czech stop-motion..." SOLD!

You sir, have made my day.

http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/blog/norwegian-student-team-designs-nature-inspired-eco-friendly-hand-dryer (Credit to onenightinparis on a different thread)

Poor Alfred

+1

Denise Lewis is excited, John Inverdale is...errm...

I'll take 52!

Another Gilliam project that never amounted to anything was his adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, though apparently some of his ideas did make it into the BBC adaptation.

Roll on affordable invisibility fabrics!

Well for one the headline here is kind of inaccurate, the task the architects set themselves was to make a house both tornado AND flood proof, which is why it isn't just in the ground.