Yeah, all mentions of evolution and genetics in that movie were painfully and unforgivably stupid.

I can only assume that the prototype hypersleep tanks malfunctioned, ice crystals formed in the crew’s tissues, and they all woke up seriously brain damaged.

Alien: Engineers by Jon Spaihts. It’s here as a pdf.

I read the script for Passengers a few years ago and really enjoyed it, so I’m looking forward to seeing the film.

The apparent “gridwork” is due to individual images from the orbiter being stitched together.

The first time we see him, he comments on Jyn’s kyber crystal pendant while she’s across the street. 

A World Out of Time was ‘76. I’d say the last decent one was The Smoke Ring in ‘87, and I enjoyed a few collaborations in between like Lucifer’s Hammer. I think I gave up at the Mote sequel.

A World Out of Time, Niven.

I couldn’t bear another one. Glad to hear it gets better though. Might give it another go.

Even with low expectations, that was unexpectedly terrible.

There’s a narrative flowchart for Dolores on the Delos website. Once a guest picks up her narrative, other guests don’t get involved. So if you pick up the can, you replace Teddy in her narrative, and fight the bandits. If there’s no guest with Dolores, then you can show up with some bandits at the Abernathy Ranch and…

That’s correct. The hosts are just advanced animatronics with a good chatbot program. You can’t rape and murder them any more than you can rape and murder an NPC in Skyrim or Red Dead Redemption.

There’s a fantastic free astronomy app called SkyView available for iOS and Android.

There’s really no excuse for how bad Shield is. It’s not the TV budget (you write for that), or the actors (a couple are great, the rest have got better). It’s the terrible writing. Even after three seasons, the show has no idea what it’s actually about. There’s no plot, just a series of things that happen.

I enjoyed Avatar. It will never come near those mental lists of favourite films we sometimes make, but everyone I know who ever watches big-screen SF had fun in the cinema. Obviously it was visually stunning, and the 3D was very well done - which was rarely repeated, and 3D is something I’ve usually avoided since. I…

I read the Passengers script years ago and really enjoyed it.

The only way that sentence is comprehensible without repeated attempts is if one already knows how it ends before one starts reading it.

I agree.

THIS IS CETI ALPHA 5!

That’s still the plan, I believe.