To hell with the damn shuttle. I've been here, burning vacation days, since Sunday waiting for that space truck to lift off. I'm beginning to it doesn't really exist.
@natanku: That truly is damning with faint praise.
@Charlie Jane Anders: I know, I know. I just couldn't resist a bad joke. (And I'll never forgive him for wasting all those good vfx in T:S)
@The HZA.: Terminator: Salvation. Case: Closed.
@charbullins: Because those were all the good bits. The other 4 hours of the movie are Colonel Sanders and three-bong-hit philosophy.
@DeSota: "Money" is just another word for "resources." Every intelligent species has finite resources at its disposal, so even if in the unlikely event they don't use fungible representations of work (i.e. money) they would still have to budget and plan for such resource-intensive projects like traveling to Neptune.
@bonniegrrl: I learned that if you shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs.
@MargaretMoony: Don't forget the adult werewolf who falls madly in love with the baby! I can't wait to see how they handle that bundle of psychosexual horror.
I thought Bell's theorem pretty much discredited the idea of hidden variable interpretations of quantum mechanics? How does Bohm's interpretation avoid this?
@gloeden3: Well, no it didn't. It was briefly discussed during the election, but pretty much ignored by the media. Amusingly, it IS true that McCain is not eligible to be President! He was born in the Panama Canal Zone, before people born there were legally considered 'natural born citizens.' He (and anyone else born there before 1937) were never grandfathered in. But he's white, so it's okay!
I see London, I see France, I see ILM's IMocap registration bands on that costume.
"Son of the Mask" is the first movie credit of one of my friends (Hi, Jason!). He is so proud.
I first heard about this (hot water freezes faster) years and years ago and did an experiment. I found that the ice I made from boiling water weighed significantly less than the ice I'd made from cool tap-water. I just assumed that the boiling water had frozen "faster" because a significant portion evaporated as the temperature was dropping; maybe it's more complex than that.
Ha! Great to see Red Whittaker up there; he is a serious robotics researcher and the best kind of lunatic. He has a farm and (used to, at least) names his calves after his graduate students. At a lab meeting, I once heard him say "I had to have Rohit put down last night." without any humor, and for a moment I wasn't sure if he was talking about his struggling PhD student, or a sickly animal.
@bonniegrrl: I felt the same way about "Stunt Rock" and I was wrong. So very very wrong.
@Perhaps Not: No, he's just a puppet of the true source of evil: Scrappy Doo.
My favorite cosmic ray event (don't we all have one?) is the "Oh my God" particle:
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A cosmic ray with the energy of a baseball going 55 mph! And nobody knows what could have created a particle with such an enromous energy, and nothing interesting is observed in the direction it came from.
Let me be he first to mention the truly wonderful sci-fi movie "Trog", starring Joan Crawford in her last film role. In in sexy scientist Joan Crawford discovers an unconvincing Neanderthal living in a cave in England. She attempts to teach him to play with creepy dolls, but an evil real estate developer wants him dead. Dead I tell you! Badly scripted drama ensues. This message was brought to you by Pepsi.
Alma was lovely; such great secondary animation on the hat, and some really good facial animation. An that trailer for "2084" may be the least informative trailer I've ever seen. Scared people! Underwear! Gas meters!
