Nope. Back in 1978, Diana Ross played Dorothy in The Wiz, and the only big-budget version of The Wizard of Oz (sequals notwithstanding) since then was The Muppets Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy was played by Ashanti. Once someone opened the door to the idea that being a poor dirt-farmer in rural Kansas draws parallels…

Never gonna happen. When's the last time you saw an ugly James Bond (Woody Allen doesn't count; he was the villain). If they won't do it for men, they won't do it for women either. Besides, being a kickass warrior when you're not in good shape is just as hard as being able to not get in shape when you're a kickass…

_Could_ HTTYD work with a female lead? Absolutely. But this isn't about what Hollywood could do, but what they would do. If it's a gender-neutral role, it's almost certainly going to be a male. If it's a female, it's because they couldn't make it work with a male character. And just as surely as you're unlikely…

Mark 2000 said it was a shame that you can't have a strong female lead without the story revolving around her overcoming gender stereotypes (paraphrasing a bit, so bear with me). Meno responded by saying that a movie with no conflict is boring, _by_implication_ stating that it's impossible to have a strong female…

And I think what Mark 2000 is getting at is the fact that movie conflicts tend to fall into one of the following categories:

Firstly, on a tall ship the wind blows stern-to-bow, so it would carry the smell away. Second, I doubt very much that they actually _kept_ the stuff in the box when there's a giant toilet all around them. Third, the water may have had algal content when they collected it (and the stuff tastes pretty nasty even in…

"The ships' logbook mentions finding two brothers, both whalers, who were set on a slip of a beach next to huge unscalable cliffs to hunt seals, and left there by a ship that didn't return for them."

It was probably supposed to be "as the continents periodically increase in elevation". The continental shelves being part of the same tectonic plates would rise along with them. And it really wouldn't take much for the entire shelf to be exposed to air, either completely or periodically due to wave action. That's…

_Gravitational_ interaction, not impact. Over the course of a few hundred years, it's almost certain that all the asteroids that don't get plowed out of the way by Planet X will exert their weak gravitational pulls on each other, and the orbital path will fill in again. Besides, the Kuiper Belt is certainly thicker…

Wait, so there's an 8-million-year-old herd of elephants out there, right now, stomping around and leaving footprints. Wow.

When the pulse happens, some mook is gonna drop his laptop and fry the hard drive. Things proceed apace from there.

There's the continent, then the continental shelf, then the drop-off into the deep ocean. As the continent heaves up, the continental shelf follows suit, and the ocean floor probably actually drops (hey, if you get a bulge in one part of the crust, some other part has to sink down to match). The deep ocean creatures…

Clearly you've never actually met a caecilian. They're cute as can be, and can be great aquarium pets, but they're dumb as lobotomized stumps. They do have sharp little teeth, as I once found out, and once they've got something they think might be food in their mouths they really don't like to let go. I had a…

Gotham Girls was released on DVD. You get Birds of Prey as a bonus feature. Dunno about the LoS DVDs, but they weren't part of the DCAU, though I always felt they were a good fit for that universe (and I sorta wanted to buy them). You know, unlike Teen Titans, The Batman, B:TBaTB... As for Static Shock, only a few…

No, it's not that. It's that I can't plug in "DC Nation" as a series to record. If each clip doesn't air at a precisely predictable time, I can't plug in a time-based recording, like I used to do with VCRs. The only way to snag these would be to record every show that they might be attached to and FF through the…

Or its orbit will continue to be filled in behind it because each orbital pass takes hundreds of years, and there's plenty of time for the asteroids to interact with each other in its absence.

I think what Spaceknight is referring to is that every method we've developed to identify exoplanets requires that you be able to observe the star as the exoplanet between the star and your point of observation. We're also probably waaaaay too close to Sol to identify any gravitational disturbences vs. natural solar…

I'm just waiting for them to find a celestial body far outside of the orbit of Pluto, which is both larger than Earth and also fails to clear its orbit of asteroids and such. Then we'll see what those idjits who demoted Pluto have to say about their behavior.

Hey. I thought you might like to know that at least one person on this site understands the fact that every subsequent TV series that features the Transformers characters is not the original Transformers cartoon. You know, because apparently we're in the minority on that one.

So...what you're saying is that it will be pretty much impossible to set my DVR to record all of this stuff, and the only ways I'll be able to keep up with it are to wait for someone to post it on the internet, and someone else to post about it [here...or] to watch stuff that I don't want to watch, like sitting…