That's so cool!

My favorite cosmic rays are the ones with the kinetic energy of a baseball travelling 100 kph.

So that you can dismiss information that is untrue and potentially harmful. Being science literate means that you can examine the evidence behind a claim like "vaccines cause autism" or "GMOs cause cancer" or "evolution is a lie from the pit of hell" and not be fooled by psuedoscience, opinions, logical fallacies,…

I thought this was how the world looked through the eyes of a Storm Trooper.

Here in Australia there are some beaches that most days look like this:

Most Japanese live-action adaptations ain't no good, so I don't know what people look forward to in case of Akira and co.

Yeah, but isn't the Major Kusanagi Japanese? Is this another example of Hollywood whitewashing?

This article isn't claiming definitively that we've gotten past the Great Filter. It's positing a plausible hypothesis: That the seemingly highly improbable transition to complex single-cell life form is actually the huge, nearly-impossible-to-overcome barrier that's preventing widespread intelligent, interstellar…

immortality is a heck of a lot better than non existence.

I assume that his funeral will spare no expense.

I live not too far away. It was fairly loud, but nothing serious. They said immediately that the test started to leave a safe area and it was blown to keep everyone safe. All over Waco people were bitching how unsafe they are, but in reality it did as it was designed to do to keep people safe.

Any Terrence Malick movie!

Gravity, hands down. 3D has often been abused in the name of boosting ticket sales, but this is one of the rare cases where it's not only worth it, but an integral part if the experience.

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As a follow up, Vincze, maybe a collection of pictures of New Guinea penis gourd sheaths would be in order.

Condoman

I was thinking about "footage" the other day.

Im honestly not sure if I've ever heard someone say Mainframe outside of a movie.

I hope this trilogy holds up so much better than her Soldier's Son trilogy, which I appreciated, but didn't like. I started to read her Dragons quartet, but had to put it down because it just wasn't good. So when the news of this new trilogy, I greeted it with disappointment, for two reasons. First, I felt she had…

i loved those 2 trilogies but i was really disappointed by some of her more recent writing. i hope this is a return to old form.