I hope we use AI to cross that bridge. From a sci-fi fan's perspective, how cool would that be to have artificially intelligent CGI "actors"? I can just sorta envision them, standing in front of a mirror and adjusting the shaders in their hair, making sure their eyes are rigged properly.

Now I'm going to have to write a sci-fi novella in which ____ is the name of two minor characters who have a romantic subplot, and it will be steamy...

Was that a clever reference to altered history? If so, bravo...

I'll second Adama/Roslin. I don't know if it's necessarily epic, but the romance is touching, and it's in space, so I'd say it's worth, at least, an honorable mention...

"Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when, to get the Holy Grail, Indy has to step into a chasm as a leap of faith? Multiple scientists have done similar things to babies."

I was wondering if that was part of the joke, like you were actually an Aperture employee in some typical-Aperture cartoonish scheme of corporate sabotage. Also, perhaps just because there hasn't been a new Half-Life game since Aperture Science became a thing, it never seemed like Aperture was on Black Mesa's radar…

Am I the only one who's now waiting to see "the Scablands" find their way into... I don't know, some part of Essos or some other fantasy novel or someone's grotesque, makes-Bosch-look-tame reimagining of Hell?

Sure, the medieval Operation board is pretty grotesque, but I think the medieval replacement for Operation's "tweezers" is a little more grotesque...

Expensive? I guess 12 years of inflation'll do that. Back in 2000, cryogenic preservation only cost as much as a cheese pizza and a six-pack of cheap beer...

4. A robot must protect any intellectual property owned by a human, unless that protection would conflict with the first three rules.

It's not like they'll be able to convince us to go out and buy brand-name merchandise at low, low prices...

Next, Family words into corporate slogans:

Department of Immigration, you know the next step...

If they keep up this same level of quality, I think the previews for the following weeks' episodes are going to deserve some coverage in the recaps. There's something utterly delightful about Matt Smith announcing "Dinosaurs... on a spaceship" right at the end of the preview that just immediately makes you think "Man,…

Fry is very successful: "Yeah, but in the year 3000, I had it all; friends, a low-paying job, a bed in a robot's closet. I envied no man, but you wrecked everything!"

Now I can't help thinking that it would be great to see Alex and his three droogs, that is, Pete, Georgie, and Dim, spending a winter at the Overlook Hotel under the watchful instruments of the Monolith (I assume, at the center of the hedge maze...)

I think the definition is something along the lines of rocky, massive enough to hold an atmosphere, and there might (or might soon) be some requirement for being within the goldilocks zone. I imagine we're still being very general about it because we've discovered so few so far, but as we discover more planets that…

I've been very excited ever since I heard about it on one of the Extra Credits "Games You Might Not Have Tried" episodes (#4 if I'm not mistaken: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/games-you-might-not-have-tried-4 ). It's basically the awesome, logical extension of how my best friend and I played Star Trek Bridge…

What James Patrick Kelly is describing is very similar to what I've dealt with since graduating from art school. Except, for me, it wasn't so much the lack of feedback, as the lack of deadlines. I'm terrible at (scratch that, therapist/Lifehacker-y/Job Interview-y version: I'm trying to get better at) making deadlines…

"Every time you think you've seen all there is to see of Saturn and its moons"