Wow, these guys are spot on. Love the GRRM cosplay. And Cersei's facial expression is perfect.

Cuteness overload...

Duct tape. It works for everything else...

Not sure if TT3D - Closer to the Edge came out in IMAX. Definitely worth a watch in any case.

As ever with these articles, I'll point people to John Ringo's Black Tide Rising series, where the protagonists actually use tactics that are both realistic and effective to counter the zombie threat. Not Ringo's best but still fun, even if it falters quite a bit by the end.

If memory serves (heh) that's mostly due to preloaded software taking up some of the storage space.

Not waves but you'd probably feel machinery. Air conditioning, generators, etc...

Don't get me started on the economic absurdities of Real SHIELD and Original Flavor Shield...

I'll add that the title of the episode is a tribute to the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The main theme is also clearly similar to that of the novel. Quoting the Wikipedia entry:

Columbia, South America

Moving to Hong Kong meant having much less storage space, but even before that I was getting rid of books. My evolution:

I think it was Ken McLeod who said, "A writer is a guy who stares at his computer screen while trying not to play solitaire."

Carefully.

You summed up the problems I had with the second book exactly.

No love for Larry Niven? He has written many stupendous short stories, my very favourite being Rammer from "A Hole in Space".

The fallacy of that argument is that it isn't all or nothing. You can give up many things, while retaining some things that are bad for you but you enjoy. For example I gave up almost all desserts but I'll still have dessert every now and then, as long as it is really really good. Or give up beer but still drink the…

Fair points.

My take was that a) he's an astronaut so he's selected and trained to be resilient and b) he does go a bit nuts if you read between the lines but he uses his work to stay sane, which if you think about it is a both a rather desirable and a rather believable attitude for an astronaut.

How can you not be finished if you started it last weekend? ;)