According to that screenshot, the question wasn't "Who played the Doctor for the longest period?", but "Who played Dr Who for the longest period?" Since David Tennant very specifically insisted that he be credited as "The Doctor" at the end of the episodes, and not "Doctor Who," he's disqualified before you even begin…

@Daft: Ah, I figured they had the same person do both the soundtrack and trailer music. It's possible the same distinction is happening here, where Daft Punk isn't doing the music for the Tron: Legacy trailers; still, whoever is seems to have been more than a little inspired by Mind Heist.

BWONG!

@PsygnosisKY: Such as Mein Kampf? I can't seem to recall it make much mention of either atheism or communism...

Am I the only one kind of annoyed that Kuiper is pronounced to rhyme with "viper"? I know the guy it's named after was Dutch, but still, "Kuiper" rhyming with "viper"? Really?

Not made on enough drugs to be a true Zardoz homage.

I thought the "Sean searching for Laila/Laila trying and failing to escape" subplot was decent; for example, presumably they intentionally had one of their co-conspirators drive around in a cop car near where she was being held, to make sure she'd go to him for help.

@dandank: Based on her, ahem, "assets," I don't think you have to wonder too much about Spider-Woman.

I actually went to the Netherworld haunted house last weekend; what they mean by "a physical environment audience members can actually be afraid of" is that every room looks like it came out of a horror movie: a mad scientist's lair, a haunted graveyard, a vampire's mansion, even a room with spinning spiked columns.…

@Stompy1: IIRC, there are apparently very few cosmic strings left over from the Big Bang; the reason we haven't been sucked into one yet is that there isn't one near us. And yeah, I'd think it's their gravity which is said to have affected the quasars.

I'm less interested in how they're synthesizing the DNA and more interested in what they're doing to replicate the secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures found in chromosomes. For example, if the histones bind to the wrong place, it'll block access to important regions of DNA (unlike the natural chromosome,…

Do they realize that zeppelins are the key indicator of being in an alternate universe? It's pretty simple, really: if you've got zeppelins, something has gone horribly wrong with the timeline. So let's all hope that this doesn't come to pass, or we'll wake up tomorrow to find that Germany won WWII.

Wait, a report produced in 2002 referenced Avatar, a movie released in 2009? Did it discuss the ethical use of time travel as it pertains to writing reports on the ethical use of time travel?

@EdificeComplex: Whatever happened to io9's own Legion of Doom (or whatever it was called), anyway? I haven't heard anything from them in years, it feels like; should I be comforted or worried?

Instead of naming Gliese 581g, why not finally give Gliese 581 itself a decent name? It's got six planets orbiting it now, including one in the middle of the habitable zone and two others at opposite edges of the habitable zone. It deserves more than a catalog number.

Wouldn't the atmosphere freeze on the night side, meaning that there'd be nothing to breathe (and protect you from cosmic radiation)?

Transcranial magnetic stimulation: f**king with your head both figuratively and literally since 1985.

I actually was a synthetic biologist for a couple of years in the mid-2000s; aside from too much sexism and not enough pipetting, that video looks about right. Tom Knight is one of the leading names in the field, so if he's involved with this company, it must be pretty serious.

@Evdor: The phrase "British magicians" makes me think of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, actually.

You know this rumour about the army of invisible vampire ghosts that's heading this way? The one about there being millions of them? Well, it's not true. So make sure you tell people there's no truth in this rumour, will you? Set their minds at rest. And there are not 2,300,009 of them, no matter what anyone says. Nor…