The Oviatt got bombed by Cylons in the original BSG (sci-fi) and played the exterior for the school in Sky High (comic-book heroes)

Underverse sounds pretty dystopic. And grim.

It's become part of our collective consciousness because we're trying to decide whether it's OK and necessary, which is what our political leaders are telling us, or whether it's hideous and disgusting, which is how we feel when we learn some Austrian guy raped his daughter for 24 years.

So we poke at it, prod at it, look at in every situation we can think of. Is it OK if it's for national security? What about if someone else is making you do it in order to survive? What if just evil guys doing it? How about if nuclear mutants (people not like us) are doing it?

Eventually, we'll have to decide.

Han Solo won his space ship in a card game.

Riddick killed a bunch of guys to get his.

Yep, definitely Solo, because Furyans don't play poker.

Question - if you want a plane to be stealthy and metal rivets or bolts show up on radar reflections, how do attach the radar-absorbing skin if you don't use glue?

Worf suffers from the well-known Klingon weakness for stryofoam storage modules in the cargo hold.

Um, yeah. Having people vote numerous times is much more dangerous than letting someone hack the database.

The same way that we all get way more magazine subscription notices in the mail than we get spam in our inboxes.

Time-line manipulations belong IN the story, not outside of it. I'm calling baloney.

One thing I always do is to save the commands in a batch file, and then run that file from a DOS window. Otherwise, you don't get error messages if you made a typo.

The U.S. Government already has a completely autonomous weapon system. The Patriot missile system tracks incoming ballistic missiles and intercepts them automatically.

Is it better than a human operator? Probably so, except for the times when it shoots down a friendly aircraft by mistake...

No, that really sucks if you just paid cash for a $50 gift, and now they want you to accept that you got NOTHING for your 50 bucks.

Is that their plan to get out of bankruptcy...to have everyone just send them money without getting anything in return?

Not samurai, not ronin. Looking for his master? Riiiight.

Also-

How does this work if you're in a 5-year ARM that's about to adjust upward and double your payment, when the house you bought two years ago at the peak of the market has lost 20% of it's value? (I mean, not like that could really happen, right?)

Michaelangelo
Leonardo DaVinci
Gene Roddenberry
Bruce Willis' character from 12 Monkeys

War of the Worlds was a novel in 1898.

Philip K. Dick died in 1982, which makes it safe to presume that all his works were completed before then.

And that explains how you lost me in the first two paragraphs of your expose on how 9/11 (which occurred in 2001) changed science fiction.

That said, the Dark Knight is routinely thought to keep a green kryptonite light saber in his belt, just in case it's ever necessary to take the big guy down.