Seriously, Rick Grimes has been on-point this season. An abbreviated list of some things that Rick was right about but the rest of the group refused to listen to: 1) we need to put the Terminus crew down; leave no survivors 2) Abraham's crew shouldn't leave; the group is stronger together 3) we need to take the…

"Einstein's theories tend to rule out rewinding time, but they're still theories."

People writing on popular blogs should really start learning the difference between the word "theory" and the word "hypothesis".

Uh … how about you install like $5 worth of hardware on each of them to have them rotate to follow the sun?

B-but the Nolan movies had jokes in it. Funny jokes. The banter between Alfred and Bruce is amazing!

Exactly. They made Shae actually care about Tyrion so she could Tysha's place. Exposition about a character that's never appeared on screen placed in the middle of a tense scene simply wouldn't have worked on television.

I had one of those foolish moments where I was thinking, "Maybe they changed it, maybe he lives!" Then I remembered that some men just want to watch the world burn.

The first step to understanding QM is accepting that you don't understand QM.

Goonswarm is coming

For me, the kicker is not necessarily that citizens are being monitored, because that's gone on ever since J. Edgar slipped into his cocktail dress and went to town. The difference is that today, the scope has been broadened—the "Enemies List" has grown to encompass not just people of questionable motives, but to…

Need I point out that the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1?

"Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale. That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the…

The search would begin immediately for a quantum mechanism by which gravity is "transmitted," a graviton. Then if that is successful, they'll start working on theories for how an antigravity device would/should work. Then they'll try to build it.

Slough's Phase 1 final report is actually quite beautifully, modestly, plainly, yet optimistically written. It's really worth a read. (Link here to the PDF.)

Not to rain on anybody's parade, but this a statistical assumption based on the planet's they actually found. From a cursory glance at the figures quoted (42,000 sun-like stars examined, 600 planets found, 10 ~earth sized and within the habitable zone), they obviously don't give you a figure of 22%.

The gravity is off, but not in the way you are thinking. Stick with me, I have diagrams.

Puny Jedi

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the George Lucas Moisture Farm.

"We found a new solar system, dozens of planets and hundreds of moons. Each one terraformed, a process taking decades, to support human life, to be new Earths."