This episode is wonderful — to the very last line.

the topmost gif animation is a little too fast for me to read (about 1 a second, or faster)

I once read somewhere that around 1900, the SF Bay Area was considered "the Switzerland of America" because the air was so clear. plus ça change ...

thanks ...

... maybe the guy on the right?

#corrections

Given how new our search is (in geologic terms), and given how little we know about anything much (we're at the very beginning of our scientific learning curve) ... of course we shouldn't give up on learning anything.

io9ium is a deterrent to all material attacks.

There was lots of coverage of this several years ago. Here's a link to an article in Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/afghan….

they should bury it Under the Dome

According to pretty much everyone, Afghanistan holds trillions worth of REE. The trick is having a stable (mostly not corrupt) government, roads, electricity and so on to extract that wealth. If the war in Iraq was not fought for oil, another, future, war in Afghanistan night well be over REE.

Science Magazine (today): The seven creepiest science experiments

To all the Children (the human race): Clean your room.

They will say we fiddled while our future burned.

I'll be excited when they get to Femtosecond. Be sure to wake me ...

Although I love John Noble, I'm bored to death with Henry. Needs some interesting character development. Now!

When I was born in 1946, Germany and Japan were the enemies of the US and the Soviet Union was our ally. No-one knew that the world's continents, looking like puzzle pieces that could fit together, were in fact puzzles pieces that fit together due to plate tectonics. No-one knew there was a chemical, DNA, common to…

I expect Vogons to demolish our planet in order to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

There are a few things I'm wondering about.

This Air New Zealand flight safety video is amazing beyond amazing. Awesome.