I bet in black and white, Anderson could pull off Lucy.

Either that or they make her up to look the part. Either way I really hope they do it.

Will the I Love Lucy scene still included? I guess that would just be Anderson dubbing in dialogue for that?

Oooooh, I can totally see it.

When has acting ever been equal pay for equal work? By that logic everyone should get paid per minute of screen time. Hell, the crew should make the same as the actors! Actually more since they're on set longer! It doesn’t work that way. The bigger names get more. Spacey was bigger than Wright. There's a much better…

Rather than copy a human genome, this might more likely be about editing out disease and even unnecessary sequences that contribute little or nothing and haven’t been used since our ancestors were fish. On the other hand, lots of organs are better evolved in other creatures, eyes for example. An interesting risk of…

What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, the kid is most likely wrong (and the idea behind it is kind of... crazy in the first place, but entire civilizations can be crazy sometimes). But you can point that out while not sounding like a condescending ass.

Also, there’s limited funding and every time the press runs with something like this actual researchers have to deal with people saying “If a 15 year old could find this using google earth, why should you get $100,000 for ground penetrating radar?”

He deserves to be shut down for not verifying his results in one way or another before he started going to the press

Oh, please. No reason to not be polite. For example, that one guy calling it “junk science” is just being a total dick. It’s entirely possible to offer constructive criticism without being an asshole.

How, exactly, do you expect a fifteen year old kid to verify the existence of a lost Mayan city? His best option was to do exactly what he did, get the info out there so someone capable could verify it or show it to be wrong.

The first time I went to a peer based conference at university (helping out/watching/drinking) I was surprised by the amount of catty remarks and that most question sections broke down into “you know nothing”. I asked the lecturer about it later and he said that is how they work.

That’s actually what I was thinking, there are so many “discoveries” That were actually discovered long before and then ignored by the "experts" at large until years later. For example Subrahmanyan Chandrasekar figured out the minimum mass for black holes to be created in the 1930's and was laughed out of England for…

Sour grapes much. Hey experts, what did you do when you were 15?

Is it any wonder why we as a nation have face a rising tide of virulent anti-intellectualism when you get this kind of condescension out of academics?

Anyone who has spent any time around lifelong academics will tell you that these responses are completely par for the course. Hell, academics shit on their PEERS who are equally well trained, educated, etc., and pretty much resent ANYONE in their field who dares talk to the press or makes any kind of splashy…

Oh noes! A blender is like one of those blade grinders the coffee cognoscenti hate so much. I've heard they say God kills a kitten everytime you use a blade grinder =8-O

Depends :)

Please excuse my ignorance, but does a "proper coffee grinder" grind the beans in an appreciably better way than a blender? We've been using the blender for years after our "proper coffee grinder" bit the dust, and we've not noticed any difference in the coffee. Have we been doing it "wrong" all this time? Will we…