<![CDATA[Comments from Jeff-Minor]]> <![CDATA[Comments from Jeff-Minor]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Hulks That Almost Were]]> @dry-roasted-peanuts: Thank you. I figured his mind was able to alter the local mass by quickly sucking it out of vacuum. Magic.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Spike Lee Will Uncover The Mysteries Of Time Travel]]> @braak: People think they can make things better. It's the kind of wish that regret gives birth to. Maybe Spike should stick to what he knows best: making movies about how bad the Man (white) is. I agree with Doug Nelson--YAWN.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Hulks That Almost Were]]> Where does the mass come from when the Hulk changes from little man to monster? Does he soak it up out of the air? Is it some kind of magic? They all look stupid and ugly, like a giant glob of animated testosterone. Pointless.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Antarctica Is Shrinking Before Your Eyes]]> @RAHfanboy: There's little reason to write in the past here, but why would making less humans be bad for the planet, when the problem is too many people? If that bad logic, I want to know why? Does it sound like a nice answer? NO. But answers don't have to be nice. Not a libertarian solution, but a solution nonetheless.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Antarctica Is Shrinking Before Your Eyes]]> @Sihanouk-s-Poodle: One child per family would be a responsible way to deal with the green house problem, which is caused by too many humans. You don't hear many people suggesting that, do you?

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Antarctica Is Shrinking Before Your Eyes]]> @FrankenPC: Your prediction (or your father's) makes me sad : ( Although, I don't think it's based on anything but ideas, and we know how wrong some ideas can be. We'll simply spray the ice with carbon dust (black) and remelt it.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Carbon Nanotubes Cook Cancer]]> There is currently a technology that uses microwaves to do the same thing...in theory. The technology was featured on 60 minutes and in Popular Science. The problem is getting nano-scale gold particles to stick to the antibodies and in large enough numbers. Once that's done there will be a cure for many kinds of cancer. And gold is at an all time high. Although I think the amount of gold required to treat one person would be affordable compared to chemo therapy.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on How Much Science Do You Need To Know To Write Science Fiction?]]> @bdavis007: I agree with with regard to research. When I think about all the research I've done for sf books I've written I realize I was using the book as an excuse to continue my education into some very odd places. That's great for almost any kind of fiction: write what you know is a pretty good rule. But you can also make shit up, and just black-box most of your science into the Star Wars zone of magic. When I see what passes for good sf on TV, I realize facts are of little importance.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Antarctica Is Shrinking Before Your Eyes]]> @ManchuCandidate: It may in fact be part of natural cycle. As for rising sea levels, we might assume that weather patters will change, cooling Europe quite a bit. If that happens, perhaps large amounts of snow will replenish the glaciers in the Alps and else where around the world. There is a lot of ice storage capacity in the mountains. The future is too crazy to predict. Shit, our best and brightest sf writers missed out on predicting the pc. How's that for reliable future forecasting for you?

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Batwoman Will Finally Come Out]]> @corpore-metal: Yeah, you're right! But I need more. I wonder why so many straight authors stay away from gay men as main characters when they seem to have no trouble writing about women? Although I guess any guy wearing tights and a mask is suspect. Let's not even mention capes and gloves.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Batwoman Will Finally Come Out]]> This just goes to show you: Lipstick lesbians are hot, and boys don't feel threatened by them, so publishers can take the risk. Now, when we see a comic with a tough gay character I'll clap. It's all about male insecurity--most guys don't want to read about a homo-super hero (with a codpiece large enough to hold 10 inches of super-cock. Very pre-dick-table.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Look Inside The High-Tech HQ Of Control In Get Smart]]> I'll give him another chance, but so far I do not like Steve Carell. Maybe he'll pull this off and be funny enough.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Most Popular Drug In The Universe]]> @russdanger: The God Emperor controls the spice! Oh wait, the Sisters control the spice...

I think Chapter House was setting us up for a Universe with millions of Dune-like worlds with their own worms and enough spice to keep trillions and trillions of humans addicted to the stuff. The spice must flow...

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Crappiest Ending to Any Science Fiction Movie Ever]]> Worste ending? War of the Worlds, because it had noting to do with humans winning, but all do to with dumb luck. At least with 2010 you had aliens that were doing a job and it was explained. War of the Worlds was just to showcase effects and watch people getting killed > blood for the sake of blood with no point.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Jupiter Has Come Down With a Case of Chicken Pox]]> Lessor storms rise and fall, but only the Great Red Spot outlasts them all. The little spots are male and are courting the larger female storm.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Most Popular Drug In The Universe]]> Everyone knows the most important drug in the known universe is the spice Mélange.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Crappiest Ending to Any Science Fiction Movie Ever]]> I see Annalee is being a provocateur with her hyperbolic headers! Good job. I liked the denouement of 2010 because it not only resolved the story's conflict, but it added a level of complexity: the end of Jupiter, the beginning of a new star and the hint that Europa is special.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Stargate: Continuum Imitates Battlestar Galactica]]> Poor Daniel, you would have thought that having been Ascended that he would have brought back a few super powers, like being able to warm his body as would a Bene Geserit witch.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on George Takei Marries, Journos Spin Gay Sulu Memes]]> @Miranda Kali: "The fact is, no matter how well someone rolls with the punches, no matter how self effacing they may be...it's no excuse for ignorant, ugly, bigoted labeling."

What if the person doing the ugly talking is allowed to do so? Such as a black stand-up comic that uses "black only" lingo? Or even gays that use their own "in-group-only" talk? It's not the word, bitches, it's how it's used. For instance, I just used a term from South Park, and it wasn't meant to refer to or offend female dogs.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Space Station Film Will Actually Be Filmed In Zero G]]> Zero-G is boring unless it's with stuff like the Integral Trees. Even the 2001 space flight from Earth to Moon in 0-g was a bit long.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Rapture is Real, Angels Have Machine Guns, and Dogs Can Talk]]> @corpore-metal: I like that idea. I'm not sure everything they believed in has to be wrong, just the stuff about God and other kinds of reality. Shit, anyone that can believe in the Big Bang (or what existed before) shouldn't have any trouble thinking there may be a God or Gods. I'm quite sure Earth is just a nutty getaway for angels that are bored off their ass living as immortals.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on George Takei Marries, Journos Spin Gay Sulu Memes]]> Maybe Sulu was bi-curious. I hear that's how it happens sometimes.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The "Trust Me" Drug That Makes You Take Social Risks]]> My general impression is that there isn't a big lack of trust out there. People get lied to all the time. For instance, we continue to trust a government to do what's right, when the evidence at hand clearly shows that trust to be misplaced. We act like suckers, but talk like rebels.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on James Cameron's Avatar May Be Beautiful, But With A Boring Story]]> I guess if Cameron can't find a story to use his new effects in, then he doesn't read much sf. There are so many great stories waiting to be brought to the screen and don't require a billion effects. How about Stranger in a Strange land? I'm still looking forward to seeing it.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Mutated Centipede Baby Demands Your Mittens]]> @Smeagol92055: Sorry, it was just me. Gosh, who would have thought there were so many wonderful looking hybrids out there? Spider baby, oh spider baby, hanging from your silk, lower yourself to my mutant cow to drink your tainted milk.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Science Brings Aleister Crowley For The Ladies [NSFW Trailer]]]> @Plague: Reminds me of a funny story about a group of occultist using retrograde enchantments to tap into the Crowley current. Silly IOT party games.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Case Strengthens That Humans Actually Are from a Distant Planet]]> @Mathmos: I hear everyone clapping at your suggestion. It must be a Pan-ovation. heh-heh-heh..

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Mutated Centipede Baby Demands Your Mittens]]> @Tim Faulkner: Yes, I'm sure. But be ready to pay for her therapy down the road. I was going to say these baby dolls were the ones I always longed for as a child, poor mutant children that I could love and nurture and then bury. What can I say, I have a girlish side.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Selectively De-Activate Parts of Your Brain with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation]]> If I want to turn off parts of my brain I'll just watch TV. It really seems to work.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Artificial Virus with Nanotech Tentacles]]> Were all doomed! Or, we're all saved! It's a coin flip on nanotech today. We need to have nano that can fight nano before we start using it. Greg Bear's Blood Music comes to mind.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Flash Gets Another 24 Hours To Save The Earth]]> Maybe they'll use a good actor and have good writing and do it well. Unlike the scifi series. Zzzzzzz....

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on The Case Strengthens That Humans Actually Are from a Distant Planet]]> I tend to think the best science explains something with as few extraneous details as possible. We can explain life on Earth without using extra-terrestrial sources. Besides, there is no way to ever prove this theory. It also begs the question of where life -- did-- originate, and at that point you might as well say The Planet Eden, where God lives

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on It's Already Too Late To Brace Yourself For Dr. Horrible]]> @brentbent:

I agree. I'm discouraged when I'm in a live audience, and something happens on stage, like two men kissing. And the guys in the audience cringe and moan. This happened not too long ago when I was attending SNL in New York. And this was a pretty young audience. And everyone is so liberal in NYC, so I think it was a fair gage of the sophisticated, culturally elite mindset. The yuck factor makes advertisers less likely to jump on board.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on Cyber-Aliens Are The Last True Go-Gos Fans]]> Her solo career didn't do much, although I bought her stuff. It was never as fun as the Go-Gos. I can say the same of Belinda Carlyle. But such is the drug of Celebrity...more please. How old is she now? I kind of like the idea of a middle-aged super hero. This miracle of technology keeps her looking a perpetual, perky 20 something, I would hope. Narcissistic wish fulfillment is particularly appealing to me.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on It's Already Too Late To Brace Yourself For Dr. Horrible]]> @brentbent: But if his love interest was a man it would kill off that straight male audience. What if they wanted to show them kissing or humping like jack rabbits? Most straight guys wouldn't dig that. Or would they? A few straight guys might want to chime in. I've been wrong so many times today in my blind assumptions, one more time should earn bonus points.

And I'm cool with him being gay. More gay is great. I love the gays.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction]]> @bjarmson: Thanks. I'm sure you know what you're talking about. You sound so smart.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction]]> @donkeyjote: Conditioning is part of it. But lots of studies show that little girls like dolls, as do some boys. Gender affects behavior just as much as social conditioning does. More so. Just ask any transgender person if you don't beleive me.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction]]> @Jess A.: Do you have any idea how many facts I could use to support my argument? If I wanted to make my point, I could, but then what would you do, dispute my figures? And as much as I'd love to have a talk about gender roles in modern society, I can't do it here. Not with these short pages. It's too hard to follow the thread. Despite what you might think, I'm only straight thinking about 25 percent of the time. Once again, I'm glad women and girls are into sf.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction]]> @zslane: You know, I was trying to say that, but you did it much better. I was trying to explain why guys have the impression that most (not all) women don't get into sf. And I think only a minority of men really get into it also.

]]> <![CDATA[Jeff-Minor commented on What Chicks Don't Like About Science Fiction]]> @Jess A.: Said, Furthermore, "You sound like you're pissed" is just another way of saying "Oh, honey, don't get so emotional!"

No, it was a way of saying "you sound like you're pissed."

You, of course, are just a straight-thinking individual who is presenting us with "facts", right?

What do you mean by "straight-thinking?" And yes, my facts are correct. I'll bet on it.

I mean, the "fact" is that you are pretty sure that "most little girls wanted baby dolls".

Yes, just like that one. Just look at self-report numbers in journals dealing with developmental psychology. Most girls and boys gravitate towards gender specific toys by age five (or before.) And it's not because they've been taught to do so. Any more than boys who like to play with dolls were taught to do so. I'm all for more women enjoying sf, even the ones that are straight-thinking. It's all good.

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