In other words:

Am I the only one who thinks that Marty is perfectly aware that Vince is The Cape? I thought when he first appeared in the back of Marty's car, Marty said "Vince! What are you doing here?" As to why Marty hasn't told Peter Fleming of The Cape's true identity, his loyalty is conflicted; he has to appear fully…

It's definitely established that Frank is an epidemiologist. Remember, he was in charge of handling the smallpox outbreak in North Texas. Now, why they kept consulting him after it became clear that the bugs weren't contagious, I don't know; I guess he just wanted the excuse to hang around Altlivia.

That "U.S. Patent No. 1" game makes a bit less sense when you remember that in the early years of the patent system, having the patent granted you a monopoly on the technology for merely 14 years. So unless you specifically plan to make a killing on time machines during the years 1790 to 1804, it's really only for…

Good call on the house/apartment thing. I kind of figured they left the debris in the alley until nightfall so they could look at it more carefully without looking suspicious...although, if a machine-gun-wielding robot bumblebee didn't seem to attract attention, I'm not sure why I think two people looking at…

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Never mind the problem that optogenetics requires getting photosensitive genes into appropriate cell lines, so you can turn them on with the aforementioned beam of light; unless you think they're going to perfect gene therapy with viruses that insert the appropriate gene in just the right places, this could only be…

I believe you are mistaken, this is what a hamster needs for true fighting abilities:

It's too bad Trinity never had training from Florance Ambrose.

Wait, Wasp is an eventual love interest of Ant-Man? Knowing some of the rumors for Ant-Man casting, there could be some interesting Whedonverse shipping if Morena Baccarin gets the part...

Am I the only one confused by Bruce Willis's attempt to hunt down and kill Gorillaz? I never really pegged him for being their arch-nemesis.

Quick, someone option the Nursery Crimes series from Jasper Fford! Though I'm not sure how you translate the truly ridiculous setting to TV...not that that's stopped some previous television adaptations.

The funny thing is, I conceived of something like this years ago, in an attempt to make up a scientifically-plausible time machine. I didn't get very far, though, since even with temporally-displaced entangled particles, I couldn't figure out a logically-consistent way to change the past by tweaking various qubits.…

What, no mention of transparent aluminum yet? For shame, io9 commenters.

@trimeta: OK, having now seen the movie, I've got to say, despite the Green Hornet being precisely as superfluous in his own movie as I thought he would be, it's still a great movie. It definitely deserves to be considered among the second-generation superhero movies which recognize the tropes of the earlier movies…

The thing is, none of this is new; astronomers have known about precession for millennia, and the whole "your astrological sign is off by one, and may actually be Ophiuchus" thing has been on the internet for years. I'm not really sure why it's suddenly become well-known.

Am I the only one who doesn't understand why this movie isn't called Kato? I mean, it's like Batman decided to take Alfred crime-fighting with him, only 1. the employer-servant relationship is inverted, and 2. Alfred would be more effective at fighting crime than the Green Hornet anyway.

After reading the explanation, I could notice some changes in the color/shade/size/shape of the objects even when staring at the center, but they appeared to change much more slowly when the ring was moving. Freaky.