like "we're going to send L-A-I-K-A into S-P-A-C-E and chart her vitals as she D-I-E-S".

good for Bolik.

I wasn't even thinking of aliens when I read the title. I was thinking more of far into the human future when we have settled other planets. Will Earth become prestigious as our place of evolution, cradle of life and all that or will it be forgotten, either in a legendary way or in a 'just forggoten' way? Possibly…

well to be fair, the other species had that same attitude too. Klingons thought kilgons were cool, vulcans liked vulcans and so on. I bet if you were on a Vulcan colony they'd be bandying about their own cultural icons. And Earth is where the federation council meets after all. It sort of does come first in that…

see, why is this comment not ranked higher than the glorb comments, or the one about how uninformed we are in the US? This comment is thoughtful and relevant to the article. It must be killed.

I am not favorably impressed. If there is one superhero that I do not want turned into an artfilm emo hero it is superman.

I thought it was some art film version of the perfect storm at first. Like a heartfelt piece about a fisherman and his family and them something awful happens to him. I could not figure out why they were playing it in front of batman.

Because ppl don't know what makes contrails. contrails = flying fast and that is all.

Whoa. WTF? Why is this industry allowed to treat MRSA so casually? Ppl even with a HISTORY of MRSA get special infection control measures in health care, and here they can keep rubbing up against each other? Doesn't the porn industry require regular HIV testing and prohibit infected ppl from "acting". MRSA is not…

Woah. There's a guy with an active MRSA infection and he is allowed to keep fighting? You realize every time he goes to the hospital for the incision and drainage he is put on contact precautions? Like ppl are wearing body gowns and gloves every time they go near him, even if it's just to take him a pitcher of…

Plus I recall my brother describing the broad spectrum antibiotics he and everyone else was prophylactically shot up with in boot camp, I'd have to think thats just a +1 for developing antibiotic resistant strains in that population.

maybe these were going for shocking and artistic, but I was hoping for something more realistic. There is way too much money in Manhattan (because these are all of Manhattan, not NYC) for this to happen to it. I like the nod to rising sea levels, but lets be real, that's going to be solved with walls much closer, if…

Or that saying you are from New York means you are from the city?

I would like to know how much science the candidates know, but not by giving them a free oral response sort of format that gives them a chance to politic bs their way out of a real answer. I would find it much more useful for them to sit down and take a pencil and paper mix of multiple choice and short response to…

Yea, I like to travel too, and in more of a bummin around seein what I want to see way more than a tour group or resort kind of way. But if I want to go to a place of questionable health or security standards, a tour group/resort helps.

I was wondering the same. Yes, bad in someways, but does the good out weigh the bad?

I think fail is the most important word in that post.

yep. I didn't even read the article(yet), just ran down here to the comments to see if anyone recognized the danger. so it will go " I'll be back you damn dirty apes!"

I really cannot tell how seriously to take your comments. And obviously Canada wants Kyoto dead. Canada is a climate change winner.

oh yea. io9 doesn't always come thru with the titles, I don't read them that close anymore. well, sorry.