Old Man

Theath.

You have to ask? Like you don't have any pet peeves?

Et tu, El Marcus?

Remember back when 300ppm was a big deal?

Aylwin is trying to piss me off with the apostrophes, isn't he?

With water as the medium, sure.

Well, half that list of villains is still alive. (Not that a 50% fatality rate is exactly consistent with superhero tropes, but OTOH I find that villains actually "die" pretty often in the comics, only to return later as the result of a rad accident or extremely improbable deus ex machina.)

Apparently this f--kf--e is going to lose $41M... 1/3 of the stock options he's earned during his tenure. So, hooray?

Agree to it? Wasn't it your idea?

It's not a flotation device, it's a hydroplane.

Most women don't know their own bra size, so, yeah?

Once upon a time there was a Jack In The Box in Waikiki across from the zoo and the beach. They had a real problem with kids stealing the plastic trays to surf with. Never stole one myself but I understand they made incredibly good bodyboards.

Yes, but many of these voters think Clinton is dishonest enough that they'd rather protest by staying home in their basement on Election Day. Even though the vast majority of Clinton's "lies" are pretty minor even if they are lies.

Canaveral will be underwater in ten years anyway. Initial reaction by government officials seems to be a bit frosty. The head of NASA said something to the effect of manned interplanetary spaceflight being the government's domain, not private enterprise. It's also being noted that the $10Bn price tag for the first BFR is more than Musk can afford, but within the reach of a Sergey Brin or an Apple. Still, we're talking about a project that would take at least ten years, if they started today.

As long as the spiders are dead.

That's when they release the lions into the arena.

"Okay guys, turn off the TV. Time for bed." "Awwww!" "Come on guys. School tomorrow." "But we want to watch the girl get munched!" "Fine. We can watch until the girl gets munched, then bed." (Jurassic World, btw.)

But only the middle 7 are gimbaled!

Dude, that one sounds ominously like Bridge to Terabithia.

Well... the man can think pretty big. I'm definitely not writing this guy off. In 14 years SpaceX has gone from a garage startup to reusable orbital launch vehicles. He and Bezos have thoroughly disrupted a stale aerospace field that was perfectly happy using Atlases forever. For that alone he has to be given a lot of credit. Funding this particular project is going to take one hell of a sales pitch, and indeed, I'm already seeing this described as just the beginning of a fundraising effort that will last for decades. Getting to Mars is going to take a repeating cycle of sales pitching, fundraising, technological success, and perceptions. It's certainly helpful that Musk is already putting 5% of SpaceX income towards the Mars vehicle and has already built a carbon fiber fuel tank, one of the key components. In fact, a lot of what he showed is already existing tech, especially the Raptor engines and booster return. That takes a lot of the uncertainty out of the equation--it's just a question of scaling up. On the other hand, SpaceX has been pretty aggressive in the past with launch schedules. For all the success that they've had, IIRC they're at least a few years behind schedule. Liveblogs were noticing that the timeline Musk put up today was already impossible given the recent Falcon 9 failure on the pad. Will the Mars vehicle still be viable if you push all the dates out 5 years? Maybe, maybe not. Lastly, I hear they're naming the first Mars vehicle the "Heart of Gold". Improbable indeed! (At least it wasn't the "Kobayashi Maru".)

One that will end in ice, not fire. Better bring a sweater.

The boys checked this out from the library. It's actually a pretty good kid's story, and it deals with the subject of death in a gentle and sweet way that kids can understand. But when I read it to them I emphasize the word DEAD every time it comes up in the text, and it's frickin' hilarious. It defeats the purpose of a bedtime story to have the boys cracking up like that, but hey. Little DEAD bird.

My thinking is that this would win less on facts and more on the kind of "gotcha!" that would actually enable Hillary to win the soundbite battle. Because that's what it would take.

You guys are not making me feel any better.

I'm actually glad there weren't any supervillains in Civil War as it would have greatly distracted from the point of the film. Otherwise, though, I agree that the MCU could use a bit more villainy. Up until now the story has been about the Avengers forcing themselves to get along while they unite against a single Big Bad. It might be nice to see a number of Big Bads team up in response to the "threat" posed by the Avengers. As a practical matter they'd have to cast a bunch of nobodies for that supervillain team, though. The other thing is that Marvel as a whole is a bit short on really memorable villains. You have Magneto, Thanos, and Spidey's gallery, but otherwise they're just not in the public consciousness the way DC villains are. (Oh, and Doom, who has been thoroughly fumbled on more occasions than I care to count.)