<![CDATA[io9 Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9 Comments]]> http://io9.com Fri, 09 May 2008 18:44:31 PDT Fri, 09 May 2008 18:44:31 PDT http://io9.com <![CDATA[The Years Go Really Fast, On A Doomed Planet]]> http://io9.com/389206/the-years-go-really-fast-on-a-doomed-planet CHEKOV

You lie! On TrES-3 there was life, a fair chance -

KHAN

THIS is TrES-3. TrES-4 exploded six months after
we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of
this planet and everything was laid waste. Admiral
Kirk never bothered to check on our progress.

It was only the fact of my genetically engineered
intellect that enabled us to survive!

twophrasebark

]]> 8:389206:c5629131 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:44:31 PDT <![CDATA[Will Phoenix Mars Rover Disappear Like the Last Mars Polar Lander?]]> http://io9.com/389189/will-phoenix-mars-rover-disappear-like-the-last-mars-polar-lander @Dug: Where's your science cafe?

Mathmos

]]> 8:389189:c5629107 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:51 PDT <![CDATA[Kong's Big Comeback]]> http://io9.com/389098/kongs-big-comeback @OldDog1:
Kid, there's only three real monsters. Dracula, Blackula, and Son of Kong.

B

]]> 8:389098:c5629099 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:40:22 PDT <![CDATA[Whose Crotch Weapon is the Biggest, Hardest, and Strongest?]]> http://io9.com/388311/whose-crotch-weapon-is-the-biggest-hardest-and-strongest That isn't XKCD-looking, more "Perry Bible Fellowship"-looking. XKCD is just stick figures.

Also, that clip is hilarious.

Ghede

]]> 8:388311:c5629089 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:39:11 PDT <![CDATA[The Dangers of Electricity Addiction]]> http://io9.com/389228/the-dangers-of-electricity-addiction Bender, have you been jacking on again?

B

]]> 8:389228:c5629066 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:36:00 PDT <![CDATA[Kong's Big Comeback]]> http://io9.com/389098/kongs-big-comeback @OldDog1: Disney remade Mighty Joe Young a few years ago. It was lame. But i agree, what is it with giant monkeys anyway? And how is that SF?

codydog

]]> 8:389098:c5629032 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:32:38 PDT <![CDATA[Will Phoenix Mars Rover Disappear Like the Last Mars Polar Lander?]]> http://io9.com/389189/will-phoenix-mars-rover-disappear-like-the-last-mars-polar-lander @corpore-metal:I can see the public not wanting to change, but why on earth and beyond would our scientists not be solely on metric?

RAHfanboy

]]> 8:389189:c5629011 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:30:40 PDT <![CDATA[Will Phoenix Mars Rover Disappear Like the Last Mars Polar Lander?]]> http://io9.com/389189/will-phoenix-mars-rover-disappear-like-the-last-mars-polar-lander @corpore-metal: we were on track to go metric until King Ronnie decided it was just to hard to get used to. I remember the MPH/KPH Speed limit signs, but they vanished like the solar panels on the White House roof.

codydog

]]> 8:389189:c5629008 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:30:09 PDT <![CDATA[Kong's Big Comeback]]> http://io9.com/389098/kongs-big-comeback @russdanger: Hey man, it's just reflecting a classic moral dichotomy and the traditional Northern European association of darkness with evil. Nothing racist about that!
Or wait... was that 'The Lord of the Rings'...?

taxbaby

]]> 8:389098:c5628881 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:17:40 PDT <![CDATA[Kong's Big Comeback]]> http://io9.com/389098/kongs-big-comeback I'd rather see a rehash of "Valley of the Gwanji".

Grey_Area

]]> 8:389098:c5628874 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:16:39 PDT <![CDATA[Kong's Big Comeback]]> http://io9.com/389098/kongs-big-comeback @Garrison Dean, King Awesome: There are so many movies like that, where you look at it and see one narrative but where members of a minority look at it and see another. And then some day they explain it to you and it's like the scales drop from your eyes.
But then, some movies are nice and overt about it. ('What? There was a racial narrative in Birth of a Nation?! I had no idea!')

taxbaby

]]> 8:389098:c5628866 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:15:54 PDT <![CDATA[The Years Go Really Fast, On A Doomed Planet]]> http://io9.com/389206/the-years-go-really-fast-on-a-doomed-planet Let's name this planet "Moth".

Grey_Area

]]> 8:389206:c5628831 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:11:42 PDT <![CDATA[io9 Talks To Marc Guggenheim About Life After Alien Invasions]]> http://io9.com/389180/io9-talks-to-marc-guggenheim-about-life-after-alien-invasions Geez, who edited this article??

mik3cap

]]> 8:389180:c5628818 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:10:08 PDT <![CDATA[Clone Wars Looks Great, Except For The Humans]]> http://io9.com/389012/clone-wars-looks-great-except-for-the-humans @russdanger: Unless, of course, the Star Wars galaxy is our galaxy in the far distant future, and is simply told as 'once upon a time' tale. Then they ARE humans, more or less, just future-humans.

Another theory of my own making is that in reality, all the the aliens (and alien life-forms) are descendants of humans and other Earth-based life forms that somehow got separated from each other and thus evolved into what exists now in the Star Wars galaxy. Of course, this would make the whole story a whole lot older than originally thought...

Bob_of_Mars

]]> 8:389012:c5628794 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:08:11 PDT <![CDATA[See The Future Of Star Trek]]> http://io9.com/389172/see-the-future-of-star-trek "yeah, the monster dies after the end of the movie".
Way to ruin a nice open ended movie, ya jackass.

Plague

]]> 8:389172:c5628793 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:08:09 PDT <![CDATA[Will Phoenix Mars Rover Disappear Like the Last Mars Polar Lander?]]> http://io9.com/389189/will-phoenix-mars-rover-disappear-like-the-last-mars-polar-lander @corpore-metal: I blame public schools and their teachers more than anything. They refuse to teach metric to anyone unless they're in a science class. It puts us at a competitive disadvantage against the rest of the world for pity's sake!

mik3cap

]]> 8:389189:c5628787 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:07:00 PDT <![CDATA[See The Future Of Star Trek]]> http://io9.com/389172/see-the-future-of-star-trek sigh. Typos.

Friggin typos.

bigswingdaddy

]]> 8:389172:c5628749 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:02:05 PDT <![CDATA[See The Future Of Star Trek]]> http://io9.com/389172/see-the-future-of-star-trek @darcymcgee: Horsefeathers!

Gene was the originator for sure, but as he went on he began to take more and more creidt for other peoples work to make himself the great font. Being a naive trekkie in my early teens I was crushed when various insider books showed that The Great Bird fouled his nest as often as he took flight.

That's not to excuse the oversell and dead horse beating of the Berman era for sure. I liked the Coto-driven continuity porn in season 4 of Enterprise, but by then the corpse was showing signs of decay.

I am really looking forward to waht looks more and more to be a fond farewell to the canon we know, and then a new changed reality for the new relaunch crew to explore.

(Trek is like a virus, it stays dormant until an attack flares up and then I go all ultra-nerdy.)

bigswingdaddy

]]> 8:389172:c5628747 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:01:46 PDT <![CDATA[See The Future Of Star Trek]]> http://io9.com/389172/see-the-future-of-star-trek @lunadude: the franchise has gotten worse since Gene died for sure, but it had lost its strength long before that.

When you start to treat a unique creative process like any other mass produced product, it happens. The Trek crew was stretched too thin and made too ubiquitous...it was all about giving fan boys what they wanted, but not just some of it....all of it. All the time.

Same problem Lucas has with Star Wars.

Sometimes, less is just...more.

darcymcgee

]]> 8:389172:c5628682 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:51:47 PDT <![CDATA[Soak Your Head With The Greatest Cocktails From Science Fiction]]> http://io9.com/388323/soak-your-head-with-the-greatest-cocktails-from-science-fiction @Dunny0: Just be able to tell me what's in a Warp Core Breach and I'll be happy.

Evil Tortie's Mom

]]> 8:388323:c5628631 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:44:25 PDT <![CDATA[Lost: Move It or Lose It]]> http://io9.com/389081/lost-move-it-or-lose-it Aww Lynn...I love your retro-futurism stuff, so I know you're better than this!

How can you do a recap and leave out all the awesome Ben-Locke, Ben-Hugo, Hugo-Locke interactions? For character development (in "current island time") and for humor, those made the episode!

92BuickLeSabre

]]> 8:389081:c5628545 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:33:13 PDT <![CDATA[Preview The Future of 3 Worlds]]> http://io9.com/388329/preview-the-future-of-3-worlds Don't sweat it. Whenever I see the phrase "a gay" used on a Gawker site I assume it's meant ironically.

NotJaffo

]]> 8:388329:c5628497 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:27:35 PDT <![CDATA[See The Future Of Star Trek]]> http://io9.com/389172/see-the-future-of-star-trek I loved Star Trek years ago. Haven't really liked it since Gene passed. Since then, the franchise just got flown into the ground.

Cloverfield was ok, but so overhyped. Guess I like moves that allow me to car about the characters. Didn't really care about the humans or the monsters.

Could never get into Lost.

Tying them all together, ho hum.

lunadude

]]> 8:389172:c5628486 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:26:50 PDT <![CDATA[Clone Wars Looks Great, Except For The Humans]]> http://io9.com/389012/clone-wars-looks-great-except-for-the-humans You can watch the larger HD version of the trailer here on Starwars.com:

[www.starwars.com]

bonniegrrl

]]> 8:389012:c5628422 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:20:13 PDT <![CDATA[Soak Your Head With The Greatest Cocktails From Science Fiction]]> http://io9.com/388323/soak-your-head-with-the-greatest-cocktails-from-science-fiction @Evil Tortie's Mom: If I can get a picture that's focus, sure thing.

Dunny0

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