That could be true as well... I think that the issue with vultures in India was more wide ranging than just the small scale use of vulture funerals, since their decline was almost total across all of India, and it was because of some cattle antibiotic that was harmless to people and cattle. Its been banned and the…

Being 'Open Minded' is not the same as being completely failing to do any research at all. This is not something that should have aired. They deserve to be mocked because they have clearly failed at basic journalism by showing footage of a fly as if it were an spaceship.

Clearly its a slow news day in Denver.

I like the idea of my body being used to feed the local environment, though I expect that given the way most of us die in old age, it would be pumped with far to many drugs to be good for the local vultures.

Yeah, I was reading about it in Scientific American, because they've had the problem that India's vulture population dropped really dramatically due to some antibiotic they were feeding cattle, and the local crow population was not really able to eat a body in the same time frame as a bunch of vultures. Thus a…

I want to introduce this woman to that retiree who was attacked by a cougar and let it maul his left arm so he could pull out his knife and cut its throat with his other hand.

BSG may just go down as being rather unique for SyFy. It had excellent writing, but also pretty great space action too, all of which comes with a distinctive money cost, and a really torturous release schedule. It took 5 or 6 years to produce 4 seasons (if not more, I only really got caught up with it at the end of…

I'm of two minds... certainly there is something to be said for creating imaginative concepts about the future of science, technology and philosophy that can serve as inspiration, and good sci-fi writers really put in a lot of work into understanding the science behind their work. So, I don't think its entirely fair…

Now, the only thing I'd have to caution about the 'dogs smelling disease' thing is that it should suffer from the same problems that drug tester dogs have. While they certainly have a better nose than humans, the dogs are also highly likely to respond to cues from their owners, so it might make using them as a…

So, the Engineers were really supposed to have made *just* humans, and not a more general start life to on Earth?

Having finally gotten around to seeing it, and recognizing before hand that it was written by the guy that made Lost, I found it to be an enjoyable movie, but it was a good bad movie. All the scientists wandering around while my girlfriend and I told them not to go in there, not to touch those things, please, tell…

And not just that, the 'archaeologists' made terrible, terrible arguments, like what you'd see out of a creationist or a UFO nut (I choose to believe!). I was at least pleased that the other scientists had the decency to boo.

House of Leaves. I think that book is actively trying to drive you insane.

Summer of Night would be my choice.... kind of a nice combo of pod people and Shai-hulud, but most of his horror books are pretty fun. I loved the Terror, but I almost found the environment to be scarier than the being I referred to as the Gigabear.

Lets see... it became a Christian church in 500s.... not quite in the time period when there were a lot of completely unconnected Christian churches, but a long time before the idea of Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodox evolved (the formal split was in the 1070s, but it wasn't necessarily viewed that way by the…

Even if it were scalable, a harpoon and a winch would probably be the safer and cheaper alternative. While not as high tech cool, it at least has a certain pirate charm.

No... this is a just a regular bad movie. SyFy movies are not bad movies... they are an utter black abyss of nothingness. UBAON!

Didn't the Justice League cartoon already do that? I seem to recall Aquaman leading an army of sea creatures against the Elder things, and Hawkwoman saying she doesn't believe in gods before killing a god. I think I may have to watch Justice League again now.

Ah exorcism... the classiest way to dress up the abuse of children, the mentally ill, and people you just don't like. If state governments can outlaw gay conversion therapy, this stuff needs to go too.

There was a time before there was really a Catholic Church and a Greek Orthodox church. There were just a lot of semi connected churches.