@BioLady: See above.

@fladdermus: Well, first off Calvin is Meg's almost-a-boyfriend, not her brother. :) But here, let's look at the male characters. You've got Calvin who's completely ineffectual in the book. There's one point where he tries to use his language-mojo and it fails. His only role is to provide emotional support for Meg.…

@Xyberfaust: While I suspect that our points of view are generally in concordance, this is particularly poorly phrased...

@skywalker24: Not if you are male. These are great when you're a kid but the older you get the more glaring L'Engle's androphobia becomes.

@Platypus Man: Congratz! You successfully found the joke! If only you'd _gotten_ it...

@Kakarote26: You obviously need to try more psychedelics in you life. :)

[Automobiles | Computers | Transgenic traits] are difficult and expensive to produce and maintain, so they'll probably never be sold as luxury ‘items'.

@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Again, I think this video has a message for people to think about.

@Dirk Anger: Well, what I'm getting at is that it wasn't about making what people want — it was about making people. Making people's minds and personalities from infancy on.

Hell, I'm kinda hoping this falls apart. It's damn near impossible to think that the show will be anywhere near as good as the book. I'd hate to think that, 5 years from now, when I try to get a friend to read them, they say, "Oh, Sandman! Yeah, that was ok. Loved Christina Hendrix as Death!". Oy.

@Dirk Anger: Eh, Brave New World was about a LOT more than that... The real key to the story wasn't the drugs or the sex or the toys or even the cloning. The scary part of the book is the institutionalization of directed psychogenesis; the creation of Mind to service the desires of (parts of) society. Compare it to,…

@D Israel: Oh, and I would replace Triplanetary with Galactic Patrol, which is a much better introduction to the Lensman universe. But that's a minor nitpick.

Another suggests the dark matter partially exists in a fourth spatial dimension that we can't see, an idea that is lent some support by current theoretical physics.

@Derek Pegritz: Eh, read Charles Stross' "Accelerando" and you may change your mind. Turns out that 'Ecology is ecology', and your mind might get eaten by a rogue, self-aware financial instrument.

Ever since discovering Stephen Baxter last year,...

@bluehinter: I'm sorry, but I couldn't cope with seeing the name "Vernor Vinge" in such close proximity to "Stephen Baxter" without suffering several minutes of endorphin-and-dopamine-induced loss of consciousness.

@chimp_lord: No. It is not. That's kinda the whole point to my objection: most people _think_ it's "allright" to perform that kind of mental operation. They also think the harvest moon looks bigger when it's near the horizon. This is a known bug in your wetware and I'm trying to clue you in to it.

@RenRen: That's fanTAStic! You can help settle (or at least decisively tilt) this discussion.

@cmg: Couldn't have said it better myself. :D

@RenRen: I make no claims about the stone's provenance. I'm not an archeologist/anthropologist. I am _not qualified to hold an opinion_. Are you?