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LittleDragon — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:13:35 PST

I posted the same basic message yesterday morning. #observationdeck

LittleDragon

Real-life Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is so cute it hurts

nuclearbalm — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:10:06 PST

Flint, you have a call. F-F-Flint you have a call.

nuclearbalm

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

MannyBones — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:09:30 PST

Probably because it was made by the same people. Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, more popularly known for the marionette performances in Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet.

MannyBones

Watch the world go mad in the trailer for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

RandomDigression — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:09:15 PST

Image or no, I get where you're going. Last Night was a great movie, and it'll be hard to watch this movie without comparing it to that one.

RandomDigression

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

OgilvyTheAstronomer — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:07:29 PST

Shit yet fondly-remembered TV series - nostalgia = shit TV series.

Didn't they learn this already with the V remake?

OgilvyTheAstronomer

Magister — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:05:45 PST

Wikipedia traces the saying "if wishes were horses, beggars would ride" to the 16th century and if you look at the modern culture section, you'll see that it has also been used in a couple of songs including one from a 15 year-old Bryan Adams. Though a lot of people also know the "...dreamers would ride" variant, myself included, which was popularized by the embedded (1987) song from Jon Butcher and was featured on posters sold at places like Kmart and Spencer Gifts. #observationdeck

Magister

Gorgeous fan-made Incredibles 2 concept art makes us wish this was a real movie

Shadowpuppets — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:03:48 PST

It worked for Toy story! :D

Shadowpuppets

Watch the world go mad in the trailer for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Oldwookiee — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:56 PST

To be honest, I never watched Two And A Half Men. I was only vaguely aware of her until she played Matt Damon's wife in the Informant, and then had a small role in Win/Win.

Oldwookiee

Totally Badass Cyborg Costume Made of Old Apple Computers

speroscythe — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:18 PST

Oh, I'd do her -

speroscythe

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:57:40 PST

I might not like Newt so much, but a Lunar base I like. Great place to learn, great place for a telescope and so on. Not that we can afford it just now.

HalOfBorg

Behold, Wonder Woman beating the crud out of an octopus god!

CaptainFabulous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:57:03 PST

Again, I agree 100%. Definitely sounds like we share a like mind for WW and comics in general :D

CaptainFabulous

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:55:57 PST

Could a naked singularity drift through the system, close enough to accelerate the Moon into solar orbit (or send it into interstellar space) without trashing Earth and the people?

Plus we get stories of Earth screwed by the Moon being gone.

HalOfBorg

Watch the world go mad in the trailer for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

mikecoscia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:52:33 PST

Looks good!

mikecoscia

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:52:29 PST

Excellent Lunar design. Even as a kid I knew the interstellar travel was all wrong (and in one episode an entire GALAXY was moving in between them and Earth, would block communications), but the basic base design I liked and the Eagles were perfect. Love the Eagles.

HalOfBorg

New images from Game of Thrones season 2 show off a whole crop of new characters

Static Jak — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:28 PST

I always imagine him as this big, square jawed, grumpy looking middle aged man with a big, neat beard.
This screenshot is like the opposite of how I imagined him.

Static Jak

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:50:49 PST

I miss it. Want movie, wanna know what happened.

BRING THEM HOME!!!!!!!!

HalOfBorg

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:50:01 PST

Sliders. Yes, but like you said - with Eagles. I LOVED the design of the Eagles.

HalOfBorg

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

Naumadd — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:48:53 PST

Yes, yes, there are all sorts of questions that come to mind when one fails to suspend disbelief to actually enjoy the show. What part of "fiction" don't you understand?

Naumadd

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:48:51 PST

I REALLY should have read your post before I posted. :) :)

HalOfBorg

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:47:46 PST

Put the Moon in a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. Use it as an interplanetary slow shuttle/colony. All the stories you can imagine with no wormhole.

*Idea stolen from David Gerrold Star Trek book, name I can't remember. Space station instead of the Moon.

HalOfBorg

The Large Hadron Collider takes us one big step closer to finding the Higgs boson

Corporobot — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:45:17 PST

I was leaning in the direction of sarcasm, but I've definitely seen crazier comments that were 100% serious.

Corporobot

Cancer is just as deadly as it was 50 years ago. Here's why that's about to change.

HalOfBorg — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:44:12 PST

Oh I am certainly keeping appointment.

Have pain - hip, radiating down leg. Leg feels like will give out, never has. Twisting it is a VERY bad idea. :) Mobic and tylenol helps a lot.

Thanks for the hope, not selling anything yet.

HalOfBorg

Space: 1999 remake will be called Space: 2099

PistachioWildebeest — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:38:44 PST

The following, from a 1975 review of Space: 1999 by Isaac Asimov, mentions some of the things hopefully avoided by any remake.

"... do those who are producing Space: 1999 simply not know or not care what the structure of the universe is like? For instance, will they have the moon drifting through space and visiting different planets in each installment? Now that would be too ignorant a view of the universe to be tolerated even in the name of dramatic necessity."

"Suppose that the moon were to be hurled out of its orbit with such force that it ended up drifting out of the solar system and through interstellar space at 1000 miles per second. (This is flatly inconceivable, but let us suppose it.) It would then take the moon something like 800 years to reach the nearest star IF it were aimed in the right direction. To have it constantly involved with worlds and alien intelligences is too much to swallow by several thousand cubic miles."

PistachioWildebeest

Why doesn't anybody use social media on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?

Phillip Thorne — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:38:12 PST

"Earth: Final Conflict"? Personally, I'm still waiting for our handheld capabilities to catch up with the "global" -- roll-up screen so the stowed form factor isn't an awkward slab, tricorder-like sensing, seamless videoconferencing. (Of course, we don't know how much William Boone paid for his mobile data plan.) Amusingly, a few episodes showed people using Palm Pilot PDAs, which were the height of technology in 1996. Not to mention "virtual glass" windows with variable solidity.

Phillip Thorne

Common cat parasite could actually be causing schizophrenia and suicide

Luis Daniel Carbia — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:36:41 PST

Now I know why I'm special.

Luis Daniel Carbia