Not too much to complain about yet! I hold out hopes for both of these, The Expanse trailer has some good /some bad and hell, they both have a good source to work from so there is certainly a chance we start seeing Syfy start cranking out some decent work !

Given that we still have no idea what the odds of even primitive life (and when I say primitive I mean even Prokaryotic like life ) are in the galaxy/universe I think trying to contact advanced aliens and also SETI are simply wastes of time and money.

I'd also put a vote in for Use of Weapons as a good starter to the Culture series, it was my first 'M' Banks novel and I breezed through it, mostly I think because I found the 3 main characters interesting if not alltogether likeable. I hated pretty much every character in Consider Phlebus which does not help (me at…

There is a (ahem) "slight" error with the distance quoted!

Most are, the objects with diffraction spikes are stars though.

Gravity is not much weaker at LEO where the ISS is (not sure of the exact altitude), there is "zero gravity" because the station and everything in it is in freefall around the earth.

I actually(almost) faceplanted this very day, arrived at work (a Printshop) and I rushed through the factory and being a little preoccupied I didn't see a wooden pallet in my way, tripped but managed to get my arm in front of my face before I hit the concrete. Results, one lightly skinned knee and a scraped knuckle.…

I presume that is sarcasm? This...this...thing is (externally at least) one of the most hideous buildings I've ever seen. A brutalist monstrosity that looks like a 5 year olds drawing of a skyscraper.........yuck!

He probably just ate an Underwater Gender Roll

Tyrion aint no bear, surely the "The Bear and the Maiden fair" will feature Brienne in the pit fight with an actual Bear!

No, it was not dome shaped, the barrier followed the county lines (or city limits) for no reason as far as I can recall, I doubt even King himself knew why!

7 meters

The Drake equation contains about half a dozen variables of which we have no idea the value of.If you plug less optimistic values into those variables you can easily end up with only ONE planet with intelligent life in the galaxy . The Drake equation was never designed to provide an answer, just to model what the main…

Bear in mind that the moon is in the sky, which is why the sky seems a bit low contrast and why the moonbow is visible. I think this is one image, your exposure estimate is pretty good though.

2018 would be the James Webb Space Telescope

I can see some obscuring of the stars in the opening sequence , although they are very thin clouds so it's not incredibly obvious ! as for the Milky Way shots you can see that the city lights ARE overexposed , a good example is at 2.20 . When I used to do Astrophotography (a looong time ago) an SLR with a fast lens…

I'll take those points !-) "Cast a Deadly Spell " , when, oh when will this come out on DVD ?

What fake Stars ? The exposure times for each frame is long enough to actually capture the stars (until they are washed out by other light sources)

Yeah , there is a bit of selection bias at work with these results. Kepler has only been deployed for about 3 years and requires 3 transits of a planet (2 complete orbits) in order to verify it. Also the further away a planet is from its star then the less likely it is to transit the stars disc. Thus the planets…

I believe 3 transits are required in order for the Kepler data to indicate a planet exists! Therefore a minimum of twice the orbital period is required to detect a planet ! So if Kepler were observing our Solar System only Mercury, Venus and Earth would have been detected given the 3 years Kepler has been in…