There are definitely confirmed cases of half-identical twins, where the egg splits before fertilization and each half is fertilized. this can lead to male/female twin sets who share half their DNA.

I remember scientists were still searching for Vulcanoids, asteroids that got caught in Mercury’s Lagrange points. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has turned up.

I saw the film when came out, and I was a kid. It freaked the hell out of me. I still can't listen to that song without getting the creeps.

Only Yesterday is one of my favorite Ghibli films. Some of the rain scenes are magical to me. I have two wishes with its release: I wish Isao Takahata becomes as much of a household name as Miyazaki, and that it gets a nice wide release. It’s a crime that the latest Ghibli films have been so poorly released.

Lotsa gravity. And I mean A LOT.

I love the story about how hundreds of archaeologists were inspired by Carl Barks and his Scrooge McDuck stories. Scrooge and his nephews would travel the world, finding lost civilizations and treasures. More often than not he would keep lost treasures for himself, but if there were people living there, he would do…

You’ve discovered the secret of galactic technology. All items, before they can be produced, must be passed through the imperial propaganda team. There a crack crew of visual designers takes the blueprints, shreds them, and draws up what they think would look best in Imperial propos. (Our equivalent of movies.) Then…

Good God, was that actual footage from the movie? I only saw it once when it came out, and about the only thing I remember, besides my eyeballs bleeding, was the horror of the cgi Gungan vs Droid war, and that they stole from Dinotopia when making Naboo. When I first started watching the clip, all I could think of was…

Yeah, I remember when the iPad came out. God that things was a mess. I’m glad Apple learned their lesson no never made an experimental product ever again.

Video is gone... 😞

As SanFranSam54 points out, Cicely is a joke on Cicely Alaska from Northern Exposure, a tiny town with somehow thousands of people living there, including an ex-astronaut (like Cassandra). (I thought it might also tie in with Sicily, Italy, but Prospero is Duke of Milan.) Baird is a nod to Eureka, where the hero just…

The card is so poorly designed, they thought they were voting for Al Gore.

The card is poorly designed. They thought they were voting for Al Gore.

I love the idea of having a planet with zero possibility of life on it. I mean we could fuck with it all day long, dump radioactive waste, and all sorts of garbage, nuke the heck out of it—couldn't make it any worse!

“Wait, I didn’t eat the salmon...”

Bah, Death is no match for Flaming Carrot!

Borges, too.

The Baroque cycle by Neal Stepehenson is an excellent case of writing history as if it’s cutting edge science fiction.

Warp speed limits. Urgh.

The first round contained some weird suggestions, kids astronomy clubs naming planets after high-schools & such. Glad to see the process went well. There are a few I voted for in there.