Wow, I haven't seen so much romanticism about living off the land since the Bible.

@Robusto68: Top. Men.

@Dwayne Day: What sort of laws? Laws of physics?

Good lord, people are stupid.

Wow, they actually got the mai-tai recipe correct!

NASA has, arguably, one of the greatest pools of raw data of any kind, and apparently no PR people who know what to do with it. But this is a start, and kind of a nice change from the amorphous synth-wash they always play when showing space stuff.

@alcablue: I'm guessing you have never seen 2001 and don't understand the visual pun here?

@alcablue: So, you can't say what exactly *is* art, but you know what *isn't* art by its size?

Yeah, if by "suppress office fires" you mean "disperse protestors with a deadly powerful water jet".

@ZanipoloLebron: Or how about r/c airplanes designed to look just like U.S. recon drones?

@ManchuCandidate: Never thought about it, but maybe one of the reasons it's on my all-time top 5 list because it has no teenagers.

@Krakenstein MK-II: Well, they said teenagers, not 44 year olds....

I have my doubts about the overall quality of the storytelling, but those scenes alone are some of the most face-meltingly inventive I've ever seen. Makes the Ah-nold Terminator look like a Barney the Dinosaur.

@SupaChupacabra: I know that guy - I've seen him around.

@JennaW: I'm not a big fan of hers, but anyone who can pull off that ridiculous role with any kind of grace or charm deserves some credit. For being a generally middling actor, she had just the right touch of spunky, over-the-top silly-seriousness that the role required.

@Pure87: @Lite: an adventurer is me!: No, but urine will be the new beer.

@Jeramy Bailey: It would be pretty hard to come up with such a task. I thought maybe a model kit, since there is obviously a "correct" way to assemble it, but it's also open to more creative configurations based on the imagination of the modeler.

These are pretty awesome, but without some objective measure of the artist's abilities or style, they don't really say much about the drugs.

@Zarkumo: I wasn't commenting on whether it's a good idea or not, just making an observation. I agree that cities full of skyscrapers does not automatically equal better living.

The most amazing thing about this isn't how fast Shanghai grew up, but the fact that Shanghai 1990 looked even less developed than, say, Cincinnati ca. 1940.