The best time travel story concept would be a) invent time machine b) remember that space and time are the same thing and c) instead of risking causality paradoxes that might threaten reality itself, use Your machine to jump to far away places.

It seems to me that they could have taken a whole different angle to this. The premise has been that they started with amphibian/frog DNA and added the Dino gene differences. What if they admitted that Dinosaurs were not terrible lizards but terrible proto-birds and instead, started with avian DNA and subtracted the…

It's been a long time since I read Chung Kuo, but China was one of the other mega cities. I can't remember how many there were - 5 or 7 comes to mind.

I remember sitting with friends dissing the second planet of the apes remake. Firstly because the originals were better, but how plausible is a virus that kills of most of the human population but somehow makes our monkey brothers smarter? Someone quipped that Jurassic park was more plausible. We howled him down and…

You're blaming a tool rather than the society that wields it. Money doesn't control you, society's demand that you take personal responsibility for satisfying your own needs and wants does.

"making it look like one of the breathtaking elf cities in Lord of the Rings".

Holey crap! Those have to be mines all over western australia and the top end.

Pffffftt! Do you really think those jaded NSA [protectors of the people] are grossed out by anything?

I don't know whether it's lazy drafting or just more difficult than I can imagine to clearly state that the service is limited to home/personal use. It doesn't really matter.

It can't be both useless and dangerous. Would go for useless.

I'm sure there's some rule a lingist would immediatelybe able to cite but if mispronounciation bothers you why not use a less ambiguous spelling...

With you there reffu. (Assuming the new commenting system doesn't drive me away first.)

"we are in fact dying of different things and less frequently"

Maybe I'm missing something here. The city is perpetually driven by the rising sun heating the track. But I thought Mercury is tidally locked which is kind of a big flaw in the concept that there is a rising sun and that the city needs to move in the first place.

That's right, its a common form of suicide.

One of my friends had the World Book, claimed it was better than F&W but if pressed he would concede that the F&W had the better name.

Something like that. As an adult it isnt that funny, but as a kid, hilarious.

My parents bought the Funk & Wagnalls instead. I pity the kids today, saying 'I looked it up on Wikipeadia' is no where near as fun.

It ends like this: doG saw ereht ginnigeb eht nI.

Ok then, All I have to do is figure out a survivable way to diffuse the excess energy when the negative energy bubble collapses and we're off this dirt ball baby!