It's an incredibly slow plane (on purpose, it's an ultralight with a very low stall speed) and the waterskier was fine. The pilot also did a fine job of controlling the aircraft despite the drag of the skier, and pilot and plane were also fine. They made a video that I found an entertaining couple of minutes, and it…

We were using understatement, and describing such people as "a bit of a character", that's what.

ALL THE STARS. Have all of them. Terriers was the best show.

Forget it, Jake. It's Madagascartown.

Curse your sudden yet inevitable posting of this before I could.

Don't forget that throwing all that bread to ducks (and pigeons, why for the love of all that's holy are you people feeding pigeons?) encourages rats. Don't encourage rats.

Don't you dare eat the sun, I'm using it.

Upstage lads, this is my ONLY number:

Not so much: the Bismarck engaged the Hood and the Prince of Wales in the kind of surface action she was designed for, destroyed the Hood and forced the Prince of Wales to withdraw, and was later crippled by aircraft and destroyed by a combination of surface ships and aircraft (actually scuttled, but the battle damage…

While I realise intellectually that in many areas of the world people live near active volcanoes, it's phrases like "schools near the volcano suspended classes" that make me grok it. There are schools near the volcano (not only one school near a volcano, which already sounds crazy dangerous to me, but multiple…

Such a tall building. Such a ridiculously, pointlessly, awesomely, tall building. I love how the eagle can see and respond to what the trainer is doing, from all the way up there.

Shh, if you tell the robot-masters we found this one, they'll program the next one to find 80s buddy movies as awesome as they clearly are, and we'll have to find a whole new test.

also: pseudopenises

I saw a chatshow appearance a long time ago where he said that while he was playing Voltan in Flash Gordon they had to tell him to stop making the "PEW PEW PEW" noises for his laser pistol. "They dub those in, Brian".

It simultaneously looks somehow higher-def than real life, and also as though it was filmed on a model track with hot wheels cars.

I love big boosters and I cannot lie. The Shuttle was a bit of a pork-barrelly, politicised boondoggle. Far less reusable than it should have been, not capable of getting big enough stuff far enough into space, and sucking money away from making great big rockets. (But that's just my opinion and I'm not a space…

So it's not because I turned 18 in the 90's, and had an equally disreputable flatmate to watch Hong Kong movies with? It genuinely was a golden age of Hong Kong movies and it's not rosy tinted hindsight?

saving the human race through the medium of SPACE ADVENTURES, yes.

I am pretty sure from my reading of io9 today that the obvious next step is for NASA to do some space exploration and build a chain of water cannons from Ganymede to California. This ought to make Ted Cruz very happy. Space Battleship Yamoto may also be involved somehow.

But but but it was so important to add an annoying robot with a weekly moral lesson, which as well all know makes anything better.