“We understand that people here are not the same in their attitudes to everything as people in America.”

Honor Harrington. First two books are available FREE (!) on Kindle, and I recently got the third... though I haven’t yet dug into it. Really interesting military science fiction. I love how tropes from the Wooden Ships and Iron Men genre get adapted to space combat, and how military tactics have to be adapted to work…

Dolphins charted more Earth than Humans.

Rome WAS built in a day.

With immune systems Humans became unstoppable.

As has already been pointed out, while this might seem like a good move to reduce gender stereotypes... it’s really just going to make shopping more difficult.

Am I the only one who is seeing that red sun growing when you stare at the pic a second? Weird, I thought it was a gif for a second but maybe it’s just the proper amount of bourbon splashed on my brain.

I know everybody likes to get excited about this stuff but this is complete and utter nonsense. First, the mechanism by which this “works” has absolutely zero—to repeat, zero—peer reviewed theoretical background. The “quantum vacuum virtual plasma” is not a thing in any accepted or even debated part of the Standard…

Google Earth sure knows how to draw a pair of boobs.

Hey so Matt Murdock and Skye went to the same Orphanage at the same time.

As someone who is finally watching Avatar (with my daughter) and on the second season, I just have to say... You Browncoats are crazy.

Light screamed, as darkness cut through.

Moon eclipses sun, holds it ransom.

The black hole was finally sated.

Immortal.

It feels...different in here. Metallic.

Turns out it's not a planet; just a frictionless, light absorbing spaceship being flown into the local star at the climax of a rock concert in a nearby system.