"But the hard, glassy shell of lunar dust—a result of rock vaporization by meteorite impacts—makes it psychically damaging, too." — Will it steal my memories or control my mind?

It's the New 52. Minus 50.

Old Spock giving the crew obvious advice about anything at this point in their lives would defy logic. Redshirts aside, the core crew survived through all those "mistakes". Avoiding events they are known to be capable of surviving puts them at risk of facing other dangers they may not survive. Even avoiding Khan,…

Seems like a flawed interpretation of the study. One, the study only compared different levels of fat consumption. It did not test the effects of zero fat consumption. Second, the researchers only tested the level of nutrients in the blood. It is assumed that means the extra fat aided in digestion, but it could also…

Iconic Metal Men story: Don't know the name of it, but Doc Magnus, tired of the Metal Men getting their shiny metal asses handed to them all the time, builds a new team of Metal Men based on similar metals. The new team is Silver, Cobalt, Osmium, Gallium, Zinc and Iridium.

How do we know anyone used in the study was smart?

It's not necessarily the same goo. @dogmaticequation has a nice breakdown of the different types of goo shown, which I follow by pointing out how the goo on the ship is not necessarily the same as the goo found by the Prometheus crew. The fact they didn't leak when the ship doors were opened implies they weren't the…

What I'd like to believe is that Ridley Scott did not rewrite the entire premise of the Alien franchise, but that's not the case.

Agreed on everything, and you lead us to a critical point: we don't know which goo was on board the ship. The goo the Prometheus crew found was not in a ship and it leaked when its climate-controlled chamber was opened. The containers on the ship didn't leak. So what were they bringing to us? The black goo (which…

Except they came to Earth with goo at least one time and did the opposite, and the goo encountered by the Prometheus crew never kills anyone or anything. Not only did no one die from exposure to the goo, but it actually brings Fifield back from the dead. Granted, the effects of the goo are terribly unpleasant, but no…

Surprise: the Xenomorph "aliens" aren't really aliens. They're built from our DNA, which is the same as that of our mutual creators, which means none of the creatures shown in Prometheus (except the snake) are not technically aliens.

I find it ridiculous that people are nitpicking over little plot holes when the entire plot rewrites our previous understanding of the Alien ("Xenomorph") species. Spoiler in reply:

Only been a day but it's been incredibly useful so far, especially coupled with my down gesture to close tabs (via FireGestures). Here are the links.

At first glance, I thought this option was pretty useless. But then I flipped everything around and set bookmarks and search results to open in new tabs by default. This means I never have to open an "empty" new tab for anything, so I set it to open my home page. Should cut down on my clicks tremendously.

Why wouldn't you want to sound like a jerk? Steve Jobs, Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsey, the list goes on and on of wealthy successful people who sound like raging assholes when they dish out criticism. Where's the article on how to sound like them?

Is the outcome not what you expected?

Irony means having the opposite effect of what was intended, not simply a different one.

So you voted for him and I didn't? Okay.

Except I never said it wasn't a mistake. In fact, I specifically called it an error. It simply wasn't the error most people believe it is.

Wait, let me go back and apologize from the beginning. From a cursory check, I see that most debunking sources also fail to identify the real problem with the "57 states" comment, so most of the Internet, even those intending to correct the misinformation, has this one wrong.