5 - I think that trying to go off Earth for a comic book movie is a bad idea. Look at how well Green Lantern did with its entirely CGI environments, were the only living, breathing thing was Ryan Reynolds' head.

Or, the people that quit smoking started feeling significantly worse, and so decided to try and improve their health by quitting. But by that point it was already too late.

While the obvious answer is that these are radar images, and thus grainy because that's just what you get, its also lot easier to take photos of things that produce their own light, like a galaxy, than something reflecting light, like an asteroid or a moon. I was surprised by how low res some of the hubble photos of…

Poor sharks, its not really their fault the primary means they have of evaluating something is by biting it.

I remember really enjoying the TNG book Vendetta, where one of Guinan's people car jacked a Planet Eater from TOS and used it to fight the Borg. But I was also 12 too, so my standards have gone up a bit since then.

We do live under the tyranny of people healthy enough vote.

Poor SyFy, it must be rough that the great old Sci-Fi shows they used to play are both every expensive to air (and Sci-fi movies are probably so popular they're even more so) and almost all of them are easily available through Netflix. So they're stuck making their own programing, and making good Sci-fi shows has to…

I guess my problem with Gattaca was that a guy that has a genetic predisposition for a heart problem would probably be exempt from being a NASA astronaut *today*.

It has its flaws, particularly in how weird its titular organism is, but I do really enjoy The Andromeda Strain for showing scientists doing a job without being insane megalomaniacs, and for trying to make a methodical science dramatic. Contagion did the same thing, though it would be more properly called…

Eureka is a feel good, Saturday afternoon show. I wouldn't watch it in a marathon, because its mostly 'monster of the week' stuff, and at times the relationship angst can get tiring, but the 4th Season was actually really compelling, and you can tell the everyone in the show really enjoys science and geek culture.

After 5 movies, you should just be happy they're not fighting a leprechaun in space. And you know that it must, eventually, by the rule of sequels, end up in space. Course, Asteroid M might not be so bad.

If New Age or Pseudoscience people actually bothered to research their subjects, there would be no New Age or Pseudoscience stuff.

I wish them good luck with all this, though I wish that the political will existed on both sides to allow the Chinese to work in conjunction with NASA, the ESA, and the Russian Space Acronym. I do kind of get the feeling that the Chinese are in it as much for the propaganda and prestige as they are for the science,…

Behe's organization made a book where, in early copies, you could easily see where someone did find "creationism" and replaced with "intelligent design".

See, I disagree. There is a place for mockery. Why should religious beliefs get a free pass from mockery? It just encourages people to fold their political and scientific views, however wrong, into their religious beliefs. Why should it be okay to make fun of someone because they think Mexico is our neighbor to…

The top claim they used to counter scientific theories is that the Bible is the literal word of God, and represents eyewitness views of these events. Everything else derives from that claim.

I actually like the tower in Seattle, it looks like a spaceship... the one in Toronto looks really pretty all lit up at night, but it suffers from the same problem of being a huge concrete block.

For me, at least, the things that really say 'Warsaw Pact" are those gigantic television towers that all the major Eastern European cities have in them. Berlin and Prague both have them, and I wonder if its some sort of combination of a love for big concrete things combined with a dash of Eiffel Tower Envy.

Well, the Minds and Drones are sort of robots. And boy howdy, are they a lot of fun.

I third the Culture novels, and I'd also suggest Embassytown by China Mievelle, its not entirely 'space opera', but its certainly lots of fun weird aliens and jargon.