It's a ground-to-orbit launch gun.

" But I think a large part of Stannis' appeal is that unlike so many other characters in the series, he's not playing the game of thrones because he wants power, he's doing it because the system says he's in charge, and by the gods Stannis follows the rules. This moral constancy is to a degree admirable, especially…

Question: Isn't picking up Mjolnir basically grabbing hold of Thor's dick?

Ship Breaker and Drowned Cities are YA as I recall

I think I liked the Pump 6 anthology more than I liked Windup Girl, but I wish he'd go back to either/both of them.

Not since OZ

They do frequently use rocks and bones and sticks though. Gotta start somewhere

taken down... by fighters flying through them and blowing up the generators.

bear in mind, those shields are terrible, and an a-wing kamikaze took out the entire bridge of the executor, an empire super weapon...

why couldn't the enterprise just beam a bomb into the death star's reactor?

Unidentified mushrooms in the food supply, eh? That couldn't be dangerous or anything

"Why exactly would anyone ever trust Falling Skies' alien invaders?"

No, the threshold question is, why exactly is anyone still watching Falling Skies? Remember when CNN was asking if Falling Skies could save American Sci-Fi TV? Yeah...

"But why risk killing the one scientist who can apparently pull this off, or cut her off from access to all the equipment she's got on board the American ship?"

Because Michael Bay

"What most people forget is that human pandemics may not be the most awful way to go. Pandemic crop diseases can be just as virulent as animal diseases, and they can decimate an entire season's worth of staple foods."

This has already happened a couple times:

See in re Gros Michel cultivar of banana

http://www.nature.com/…

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Just sayin'

But at least there's no Shia LeBeouf

Did they ever address/fix Jessica's perpetually regenerating hymen issue?

Perhaps you're missing which direction the burden of proof goes here...

The book goes into great detail... about how hey, let's use use existing unrelated data to backfill a theory that otherwise is unsupported by evidence.

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