Monopoly sucks for the reason most older American board games suck: when you are out of the game, you have to sit around twiddling your thumbs while everyone else is having fun, and this can go on a long time.

We should forego exploring space in favor of exploring physics. Or we should re-prioritize exploration of space with full-scale ground-based research into FTL.

No. In my honest opinion, at this point, the vast majority of money invested in exploring space should go towards research on FTL travel. Because any attempt to terraform or colonize any planet or body in our solar system is a fruitless waste of time.

Yes, I think you may be over-thinking this a wee bit.

Too much like Thor's hammer. Needs to be a distinct weapon.

That's neither a mace nor a morning-star but a flail. :-)

You know what I'd like to see...a Sith with a weapon other than a lightsaber. Imagine for a moment...a "lightmace" or even better, a "light-morning-star" which really just smashes giant holes in things when it hits. Id love to see a battle of someone with a lightsaber up against one of those.

what is this i don't even

OK, I get you folks didn't like it...I enjoyed it, but I didn't think it was all that and a bag of chips. The most interesting idea of the book is not the use of "she" all the time, but the description of a "person" who is actually a ship and multiple individuals at the same time. This is what makes sci-fi so…

OK, so this is pretty fucking cool.

I know people in planetary sciences as well, and they think it should be classified as a planet.

I think you should probably just correct them in a reply. We'd love to see what the errors are.

I believe one of the Scottish council areas had a second vote available for people that, in the event Scotland seceded from GB, they would secede from Scotland and join GB.

I did not know the Danish were capable of such humor.

It's not so much baby poop sausage...it's lactic acid extracted from baby crap to start the fermentation process for fermented sausages. Who the hell eats fermented sausage? That's spoiled sausage, something you probably shouldn't be eating to begin with, especially if the "starter" for the spoilage is baby crap…

One thing I never understood about Neutron Bombs is exactly how you would die. Even this article doesn't really explain it, it just says you'd die gruesomely. Ok. Would you melt? Explode? Implode? Die from shock? Blood loss? What exactly would happen to a killed by one of these things?

Let's be honest. Rhinos are just fat unicorns anyway.

Now all they need to do is built a life-size Star Destroyer set and we will truly be able to see some amazing things.

You folks should note that in the initial raising of the camera at the beginning, you will see green grass, or a field, at the lower left.

Not only is this real, but you can see actual green grass at the lower left of the screen at the very first movement of the camera...thats' green grass...just like the grass in the drone flyby's over a studio location in England. It's unlikely that is cgi, and I hereby predict this is the same falcon that has been…