Actually, it was named Beringia in the 1930s. That's not what the people who lived there called it.

Your comments are making less and less sense. You're the one who started talking about "them", everyone else seems to think that much of the problem is "us". It's actually pretty simple to ensure that none of the plastic that goes by us ends up in the ocean, but I guess that requires logical thought, and you're too…

You've got it backwards. I once happened to have dinner with a lady who said she didn't worry about destroying the environment or global warming or the increasing gap between rich and poor because pretty soon God was going to bring the apocalypse and all that would be irrelevant as the righteous are saved. That sounds…

Geez, I didn't mean to start World War Three, here. ProstituteIsObvious: I wasn't trying to "shit all over" the physicist in the room. I will concede that my post was a touch snarky. But I also figured, hey, she's writing for io9, she can handle a bit of snark.

I was 10 or so at the height of the Barry years: Herman Moore, Rodney Pete, Mike Utley, etc. So I have fond family memories of those lions even though we were mediocre. We're a much better team now and I look forward to a season without Schwartz fucking things up. But I'm jaded with the Lions. We just sucked for too…

I hate sand.

Did you know they've found creatures that survive around Chernobyl and other heavily irradiated places? LET'S NUKE THE PLANET AND MARVEL AT THE ADAPTABILITY OF LIFE.

I hate Illinois nazis.

For the record, no I don't care. ;) I turn my physics brain off for superhero movies. And I love the Avengers.

There is a difference between adapting to obstacles and creating the very obstacles that you need to adapt to.

I'm going to assume this comment will be lost in the sea of proving me wrong, but I would like to say that I wasn't trying for a serious analysis of the movie — just a quick thought-dump on some basic questions.

I was in New Orleans for WrestleMania. The crowd went apeshit when Hogan mentioned that.

Sorry, I was coming at this from general relativity — the math's a lot different when you're calculating the curvature of spacetime.

GIANT GAS BUBBLE IN SPACE. I love it.

This. Exactly. If you start down that road, you end up with lots of problems.

San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, etc. have been pretty much entirely run by Democrats for the last 50 years and they seem to be doing OK.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Wayne."

thats not detroit, its about 30 minutes north, several cities away.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Wayne Fonts wearing pajamas on the 50-yard line. Barry taking 3 steps to the left, 4 to the right, and 5 back for every step forward. I've seen Scott Mitchell throw ducks under heavy pressure. All these memories will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. And good…

Put some kids in there with bows and arrows and have them play a game of killing each other, and the last survivor gets fed or something. We can televise the child murders and we'll call it the I Could Use Some Food Games