Sort of. Not that flight simulators, or comics for that matter, are real science — but a team from XPlane and the XKCD guy did a series of simulations using the gravities, radii and atmospheric densities of major solar system bodies in a cessna simulator, to see what flight on each would require. Results are here : htt…

The only instruction I think they reliably follow is transmission requests. When I worked at a publication that had several reviewers, we had a couple of writers, specializing in family cars, who didn’t know stick. A manufacturer once accidentally delivered a stick, and went out of their way to fix that as soon as…

Particularly when it’s pre-production, you can just level with journalists about that as well. I remember a rep for a Japanese company that no longer sells in the states telling me “please don’t photograph the trunk liner. This is pre-production and they’ve already decided on a different material.” So we just didn’t…

I haven’t reviewed in two years, but prior to that, I reviewed for five. I’ll just add two things about the stress:

I haven’t reviewed in two years (divorce, move, job change, etc...lots of things in the way), but prior to that, I reviewed for five year. Let me tell you, autowriters *overemphasize* the significance of an intuitive interface, because it’s just such a huge relief to get one.

And they told us to hydrate because THEIR gym teachers had nearly killed them with advice from the other end of the pendulum. My old coach use to tell us how his coaches had ordered them to talk “salt pills” to make up for the salt they were sweating out, and make sure not to drink too much.

Tree Trunks sounds exactly like my mother. My daughter watches the show just to hear her grandmother’s voice again, now that she’s gone. So your argument is invalid, and Jake will have some suggestions on where you can put it.

So you’re telling me it’s not the scene from Mack and Me? Damn. I had such hopes.

Thank you. I was wondering if the article was going to point this out.

Whitbrook: “Civil War, in obvious ways, will ask questions about the harm superheroes can do when they’re given free reign”

The article later says “Easter said he didn’t disclose the incident because he doesn’t consider himself to be a rape victim.”

On Hulk, this doesn’t change anything.

You might even say he can claim no lands, hold no titles, father no children....

I...I now want Rickon Stark’s album.

Many book readers believe The Hound survived, but it’s not at all clear. It’s based on speculation and symbols. But it’s certainly possible.

Please revisit this headline.

This is fantastic.

I’m not an international law expert, or even a lawyer, so take this with a few grains of salt.

The entire United Kingdom is slightly smaller than Oregon, and has a population slightly less than 1/5 that of the U.S.

No. The books, having unlimited time, can include far more characters and complications. So they go into some detail about all the *other* northern houses, since the Boltons invited them to come for the wedding (and you don’t refuse an invitation from your liege lord).