Capital gains taxes are capped much, much lower than income taxes.

Since we don't even know how memories are stored or consciousness works, any such estimates are pulled from the air. That is, if you intend to actually improve the human race rather than replace it with androids programmed to act like we do (or think that we do).

Alt history is the most believable if the story takes place within a couple of generations after the changed event. "What would Robert E. Lee have been doing if the South had machine guns" is a more valid topic than "What would Robert E. Lee have been doing if the the Roman Empire never split/fell and he was the…

I don't see how you can argue with the butterfly effect. Sure, some super-small things may dampen out but a ton of them will not.

Evolution will give us everything that we really should have. Anything that we don't have, mostly, would use up more resources than it is worth or cause problems that we can't deal with (like smashing our own bones with chimp-strength). Our brain, posture and manipulative dexterity take up a ton of our resources for a…

Thanks!

No Kristen Bell? Seriously? She had a huge part in a major game franchise and she isn't even on the list, but people with much smaller roles did?

Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's General Mills' Frankenberry.

I don't know who you are but if you don't let E-6 go, I will find you. I will sink you.

Ahem. Wasn't Miracleman (my favorite graphic novel) originally supposed to be Captain Marvel, and thus a remake?

I think that you just named the next Tim Burton movie.

Fringe, which I love, is seriously missing the butterfly effect. These big historical changes didn't snowball until they had a very different world by now. I tend to think that even super-small things would snowball. If even one New Yorker married differently two hundred years ago, for instance, the genetic makeup of…

Theyt didn't get there by knowing the mid-Atlantic currents though. They sort of island-hopped.

"You are just going to get married and have babies."

Population booms are just something every country is going to have to deal with. I hate this idea that population has to grow forever. What needs to happen is that you make a big effort to get past the period when your population is weighted towards the elderly. Like, for that period, taking care of that group is…

Your solution is probably part of the formula, but birthrates in westernized, industrial countries just tend to drop. People don't need to have six kids to make sure that one or two makes it. Also people plan for their own retirement (to some degree), and don't need to make sure that there is a kid with whom they can…

Bleh. you are one of those people who won't make bronze, are you?

Who would have guessed that mammoths had floppy tusks that hung down and bent slightly when they touched water?

A lot of the comments focus on rape, and there is a good chance that there is something to that. It may not be quite what most people envision, though. Throughout recorded history, and presumably in prehistory, a lot of "marriage" would be considered rape in modern times.

Toast is still okay, though, right?