That would be the perfect piece! It could get out of jail at will, and freely move to and from the corners of the board...

Anyone who pursues it willingly after having been presented with the risks.

Not to say that it’s impossible, but “murderous innkeeper with a lethal trapdoor bed” is a folklore trope dating back at least to 17th century England. Inasmuch as it seems to have no relationship to Peeples’ eyewitness account, I’d imagine it just got tacked onto the Fishers’ story in the course of retellings.

In addition to what fiberman noted, I don’t think the chemical reactivity of the rhodopsin would instantly cease at the moment of death. If the killer moved away, leaving the victim with their eyes open, the image of the killer would likely be “overwritten” pretty quickly before a CSI team could “fix” it.

Perhaps for some scenes, but many of the larger, more pipe-filled ones were done in the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in Van Nuys.

The movie 12 Monkeys filmed many scenes on location in Philadelphia, but Terry Gilliam apparently chose not to film at our bland, ‘70s vintage airport, creating a more cinematic, lofty-ceilinged substitute in a repurposed railway shed that is part of our downtown convention center.

I can accept something like that (perhaps Starfleet utilizes some preserved historic sites?) before I can accept a brewery as the Enterprise’s engine room.

Some LA-area locations have been overused to the point where they’re distracting even to non-residents. Sites like the 2nd Street Tunnel, the Bradbury Building, or the Los Angeles River look exotic, but that makes them even less convincing as stand-ins for anything other than what they actually are.

A fake profile doesn’t necessarily mean a scam on the site’s part, though. Many sites, including Ashley Madison and OKCupid, attract webcam operators and catfishers. The site can try to shut down such profiles when it becomes aware of them, but that’s bound to be an uphill battle.

I fully agree with the essence of what you’re saying. That the number of women on the site would be so near zero is what defies belief. 31 million men vs. 5 million women? No problem. 500,000 women? OK. 10,000? I’m not buying it.

I’m inclined to listen to these objections, just because the extremity of Ms. Newitz conclusions is so counterintuitive. I can fully accept that men vastly outnumbered women on the site, and that a huge number of women’s profiles were faked, and certainly that the owners of the site were crooks, but I find it hard to…

I guess my follow-up question, then, would be whether Nix, Hydra, et al. , are fragments from that same major collision, or are potentially debris from some lesser later collision(s) that might have erased Pluto’s surface.

Looking at Pluto, Charon, and their various little companions, my initial, casually-educated, impression is that all of them are pieces of a larger body that was shattered in a collision, rather than a cluster of gravitational “captures”. How easily could it be determined whether I’m right, and if so estimate when…

Well, Lovecraft’s sketch does seem to show him with <i>six</i> eyes. That seems pretty hon-human and difficult to relate to in my book.

The differences in the granularity of his data make for some oddities on the blue/white fringes — I think northeast Mali is probably just as empty as southern Algeria, for example. And is the Indonesian half of New Guinea really significantly more populated than the Papua half?

My suspicion is that there’s no evolutionary benefit to infanticide and cannibalism per se. Those are merely by-products of extremely aggressive feeding instincts, and unlike sharks, who swim constantly, and have less incentive to kill when they aren’t hungry, a guppy will hang around and potentially feed tomorrow on…

Has that been proven conclusively?

That’s how I always understood it. “Kryptonite” simply means “rocks from Krypton”. The various colors could have radically different chemical compositions.

Note that they distribute a free .pdf of “GURPS Lite” rules at sjgames.com to introduce new players to the game.

That “limited view” is the thing I find most annoying about most first person shooters and fighter plane simulations — I guess it’s justified in something like Halo where you’re supposed to be heavily armored, but it’s frustrating to me to be so tunnel-visioned in a combat environment.