Okay, most hilariously screwed up I certainly can't begin to argue with, but worst reproductive strategy? I just need to throw this one little tidbit out there. The domesticated turkey. We have bred them to be so big for Thanksgiving dinners that the males are physically incapable of mounting the females to get it…

If you had the power to verbally bitch-slap a Klingon once a day, every day, with no fear of [reprisal...would] you ever give him his due props, or would you start up a contest to see who can deliver the best shut-down line?

At some point they realized how silly it looked, and once that shoe dropped they stopped making Superman take it on the chin all the damn time. But yeah, the Darkseid "world of paper" speech is one of the main reasons I firmly believe that there should be a law that everyone who wants to produce, direct, write, or…

Clearly Sheldon doesn't read this particular strip.

I believe the mantis shrimp can differentiate circularly polarized light, which is something that we apparently can't even experience with sunglasses.

"Why the hell did the Enterprise crew keep the son of Mogh around if they were just going to crap all over his suggestions time and time again?"

The creative team behind the Justice League series threw this out as a complaint about how hard it is to work with Superman. They didn't want him to be able to just mow through every obstacle like it was made out of wet paper, so they constantly had him taking the hard hits and not shrugging them off, so you'd know…

I hope I'm not the only one who actually shouted "Got yer nose!" at the TV screen when Hershel's target started getting munched. If I am, I am severely disappointed in all of you.

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Firstly, I have mixed feelings about this. I once worked for a guy who graduated second in his class and was turned down for a job because he wasn't black, which is every bit as unfair to him as it is for a black person to be turned down because he is. In an ideal world this question wouldn't even need to be asked,…

In the Earth/Moon system, the Moon is tidally locked and the Earth is not. This means that from the Moon, the Earth appears to just wobble a bit in the sky while from the Earth the moon appears to rise and set just like the Sun. This in turn means that there are very strong tidal forces pulling against the surface…

The only important thing to know is that they make the tiger jump faster. But only in a directly upward direction.

That's not Darth Maul. Savage Opress just forgot to put on his sunscreen.

You're all wrong! Bender has two giant gears (different sizes, but matched at a 1:1 ratio) in his torso, Tinkertoys for arms and legs, and a giant incandescent bulb in his head.

Ah, okay. That explains it quite nicely. I was under the impression that nuclear fusion reactors had not been invented at all, but it appears that the distinction is that _useful_ nuclear fusion reactors have not been invented yet.

The issue with storing spent fuel (besides having to do it because it's illegal to use breeder reactors for some moronic reason) is that the only way to sell the idea in the first place was to point out that you wouldn't have to pay the full cost up front. You could saddle your childrens' childrens' childrens'…

Well, there was one year in high school when I biked to and from school every day of the school-year except two days when it rained. And I grew up in Michigan. It was an unseasonably warm winter, mind you, and every snowfall that entire winter melted within hours. I once completed a 25-mile bike ride for a merit…

Pfft. The monarch butterfly's four-generations-per-round-trip migration each year still trumps this. For some weird reason it takes three generations to go one direction, and only one to go back. But what that means is there's an entire generation in the middle of the one leg that, once they crawl out of their…

Winter. Rain. 20-mile round trip commute five days a week. LEGO shows where I have to be able to haul about 8 suitcases (and counting) back and forth. Grocery shopping. The fact that later this year I fully expect to buy a third LEGO set that's more than half the size of my freezer's capacity.

You're absolutely right, except for where you're wrong. My dad told me about a dam that's used to power just a single city in Nevada, which he says is a "top-unloading" dam. This means it only lets the top layer of water through, which results in all the silt settling out at the base. So the Army Corps of Engineers…