you know, you'd think that a philosopher would know when he's got a foundational issue in his argument...

The irony being that, by (a) denying an animal's prey drive, (b) giving a predator the ability to comprehend its prey's pain, (c) some mix of the above, you're paying a pretty high up-front cost in suffering to "eliminate" suffering down the road.

And that's just if you take his premise as anything but fucktarded.

"though that also might have something to do with all the LDS he took during the sixties"

LOL Leonard Nimoy was dropping Mormonism

I think you're confusing "The World's End" and "This is the End" - This is the End is the Franko movie, and "The World's End" is the name of the titular pub in the other.

...why is 12 Monkeys getting remade as a SyFy special?

So basically they built a mini naginata with a bladed flail on one end?

Very tactilol.

So basically they gave Max the same origin story as (Schwarzenegger's) Conan the Barbarian?

Hmm, what other movie embodies this well...

Pssshhh.... what's a hellhole without a giant pond of acid?

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William Wallace

Behold

Is this the part where I point out that some of these spoon-fed explanations are necessary for the purposes of extending case law to new situations and technologies?

I mean, there are obvious advantages. But there are disadvantages as well, including logistics of shipping a whole wing. And expense of having to buy whole new wings.

"One of Boeing's key innovations was going to be saving significant costs by producing the major structural component, the carbon fiber delta wing, as a single unit."

So basically, if there was wing damage, somebody would have to ship a whole new delta wing to the forward airbase?

So basically the Crow is back to fight in another dystopia

if they wake up an Elder God ima be pissed

Little girls are the worst bullies

SGU tried to make a character driven drama a la BSG, but jumped the gun and forgot that in order for us to care about things in characters' lives that don't involved explosions, we have to care about the characters to begin with. That foundation didn't get laid (just like Eli - heyo!)

I, for one, was kind of disappointed in the museum robot's oversimplified and probably inaccurate description of what happened to neanderthals

This is the correct answer, and I self confess I am one of the reformed