But clearly these are not exciting in terms of colonization, right? 20 light years is too far away to reach during a single lifetime, which means sending out generation ships. I don't believe we'll accumulate the necessary resources or political/economic will to colonize any of them in my lifetime. Why then, exactly,…

Since when did stories become interviews with the "author"?

The game can't be a year out if the series begins airing next April and the game is slated to come out "before then".

Quite right. Two years ago I spent five hours standing in lines for things I never got into, and that was just in the first two days. Last year I focused on smaller, artist-oriented panels that the masses would never go to and I had a much easier/better time. But I still sort of resent having to fundamentally alter…

That "controversy" will continue to consume words, breath, time, and energy until we as a species cease to be so primally terrified with the existential uncertainty of it all.

Blogs don't set out to misguide, they are here to entertain.

And lastly, it's a blog. Not a news site like CNN, etc.

Look at all the qualifiers in the advice given:

I'm not convinced that anyone in Hollywood understands the book, much less knows how to make a worthy adaptation of it. Hell, most readers don't seem to really grasp what they are reading, evidenced by the number of critics (of the book) who utterly miss the point of Heinlein's little thought experiment in social…

I, for one, grew to dislike Westerns based on the kind of movies made during their heyday. The depiction of native Americans was atrocious and embarrassing. The Roosevelt/Eisenhower-era social mores were anachronistic (family "roles" were quite a bit more fluid in the era of western expansion). The contrived…

That's on my Netflix queue...despite being a Western...and only because of the great performances I've heard so much about.

I actually really enjoyed Tombstone too...which is saying a lot considering how much I generally dislike Westerns.

Agree with all the above.

There's a difference between discussing things, and crying DOOOM! over it already. Which is the tone of the article and all the nervous nellies who see nothing but ethical crises with every step forward military technology takes. 99% of the time, common sense prevails and we get a slow, gradual integration of new…

Wow, I could not have said it any better myself. You appear to be my identical twin (on this matter anyway).

Yay. More wringing of hands over technological advances in warfare. Wake me up when our robot overlords have (finally) taken over. Zzzzz...

So if this research is exposing a genuine correlation, then all it proves is that most of our species is still stuck in Kohlberg's first stage of moral development. Yay for the human race.

We all need to get used to it I'm afraid. There is no information anymore, just hype. There is no understanding, only oversimplification. Science has long since lost any ability to control its own press, which is why supreme skepticism must be applied to anything that gets reported as "news" today.

The Internet allows far more people to get in your face than in real life (thanks to the one-to-many power of forum/blog postings). Hence the biggest difference between online and meatspace social dynamics is that I am forced to use /ignore on the Internet several orders of magnitude more often than in the real world.…

You had me at Mila Kunis...