Apparently so, since he sort of broke the meme — you're supposed to supply a quote, attribute it to someone other than the person/character who actually said it, and include a picture of a third character. Technically he followed it, since Captain Marko Ramius and Dr. Henry Jones are different characters, but it…

The porting in the bullet would only vent gases in the very brief period when the last quarter of the bullet is still in the barrel — at that point, all the gas pressure in the barrel has already acted on the action to cycle it. It's not going to reduce the velocity, because the removed material will make the bullet…

Any depiction of flying cars, because we have enough idiocy on the road when people are confined to two dimensions; giving them a third would make things at least an order of magnitude worse. It would get quite a bit better after the first flood of Darwin Award contestants, but it would still be aviation's equivalent…

And, as Stanley Weinbaum illustrated in his story "A Martian Odyssey" back in 1934, silicon-based lifeforms that metabolize oxygen have a crucial handicap that carbon-based lifeforms don't — silicon dioxide is a solid until you get to temperatures high enough to have to worry about thermal breakdown of the protein…

...or the auction listing misrepresents what you're actually getting because of the terminology used to describe items; I recall reading about someone who bought three USAF-surplus jet engine starters at auction for about $500 each, then turned around and unbolted the starters from the 3/4 ton trucks each one was…

Riding up the concrete surface topping the outside 'rail' of the stairs would have been more impressive, and given the constraints of a trials course, a nice smooth concrete surface that had to have been at least a foot wide all the way across should be a piece of cake.

...just like the plural of 'octopus' should be 'octopodes'.

Not very 'inside'; I remember reading an article in Starlog magazine many years ago where Verhoeven commented that he had always wanted to make a movie from Starship Troopers "because of the inherently fascist nature of the society". When I read that, I knew that the movie was going to be dreck. And as a movie…

Premise: 'All odd numbers are prime."

Use of loaded term, five yards. Your statement would suggest that there is a "preponderance" of evidence, which is something that many agnostics will contest.

And I believe that the line drawing is of the P.1500 Monster, which was to be armed with the same 800mm gun the Schwerer Gustav railway gun mounted; the P.1000 Ratte was to be armed with a pair of 280mm guns in a turret modified from those fitted aboard the Gneisenau-class battleships.

Nitpick: 1.8 tonnes would have been the weight of the bomb, not of the explosive charge. For a GP (General Purpose) bomb, the explosive charge would be about half the weight of the bomb. A demolition bomb would have an explosive charge between 65 and 80% of the weight of the bomb; these were particularly thin-walled…

The Curiosity landing is going to look much like the video above, except that instead of just slowing the descent, the rockets bring the lander to a hover, then the rover is lowered by cable to the ground, after which the lander boosts itself away to avoid contaminating the area. See this video for NASA's publicity…

And 'Barsoom' is the entire planet, not just a territory on Mars.

Skatole isn't the only origin-related aromatic; cadaverine and putrescine are produced by the breakdown of amino acids, most noticeably in dead tissue (although they are both produced by living tissue in much smaller quantities) and contribute to the characteristic smell of rotting flesh.

Actually, the Toba supervolcano, around 70,000 years ago, which is theorized to be the cause of the bottleneck seen in the human genomic history, would be a better candidate for this; there's nothing precluding early migrations from having failed to survive.

I'm going to have to go back and rewatch Ghostbusters; I remember that line as "If someone from another dimension asks you if you're a god, say 'yes'!".

Arthropleura was an Upper Carboniferous Period relative of the centipedes and millipedes in what is now Scotland and northeastern North America, and could grow to a size of more than two and a half meters in length (8.5 feet); it is the largest known land invertebrate ever to have lived. The higher oxygen level during…

And if they can apply the coating cheaply to a flexible substrate, then they would be able to market fingerprint-resistant screen protectors, so you'd be able to replace the cover sheet when it wore down enough to no longer repel fingerprints.

I guess "booth bunny" is totally out of date, then...