salamander42 commented on Five Ways Reality Went Sci-Fi So Far This Century

"The advances in information storage and sharing seem very science fictional to me."

salamander42 commented on 10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

"Okay, I guess I should have said "I would have been alright with it," or something like that instead of "I could have lived with it"."

salamander42 commented on 10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper

"I agree that most, if not all of these were better off on paper, but I disagree with the statement that they "should never have been committed to celluloid"."

salamander42 commented on Antarctica Is Shrinking Before Your Eyes

"@codydog: I don't think you have to worry about a wave."

salamander42 commented on The Cutest Science Fiction Sidekicks, And Why They Fail

"Jar-Jar Binks is #1 on my annoying sidekick list."

salamander42 commented on A Machine That Types What Is Spoken To It, 1913

"@Garrison Dean: Maybe because the first electronic computers didn't exist 'till the 30s and the first general purpose, re-programmable computer wasn't built 'till the 40s?"

salamander42 commented on Riverside Views in a Thriving Halo World

"One thing bothers me about this picture is the curvature of the floor."

salamander42 commented on What Novels Span The Most Aeons?

"The World At The End Of time by Frederik Pohl."

salamander42 commented on Should Movies Update Classic Scifi, Or Go Retro?

"Alright, this is a bit of a deviation from the movie focus of this discussion, but I just finished reading Variable Star by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson."

salamander42 commented on Eiffel Tower's Massive New Observation Deck to be Made of Kevlar Webbing

"In that fist pic it looks like a mushroom."