One of the arguments against human expansion into outer space is that we will instead retreat into virtual worlds as the technology evolves. I think it’s an interesting technological race.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Obesity
Here’s an idea. Let’s stop pretending that we understand it.
Famous Movie Quotes
Graphically depicted. Funny stuff.
Sex In The Popular Culture
Why it’s becoming drenched in it.
The One Ring
Would it work for anyone other than Sauron?
Making Things On The Internet
This is pretty hilarious.
[Update a few minutes later]
Yeah, I should have put up a “slightly NSFW” warning on that.
Time Travelers
A search of the Internet for them comes up empty.
Remember, though, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: If a time traveler encountered a smart phone.
A “Zero-Gravity Space Chamber”
No, New York Post, there’s no such thing. If they shot her b00bs in weightlessness, it was probably in a parabolic aircraft.
The Military Space Program
Should it be taken over by the Navy? Space is more like the sea than like the air, and I argue in my book that a US Space Guard would be a better organization for many things currently being done (or neglected) by NASA, the Air Force and the FAA.
The Weather Channel
Is DirecTV going to drop them?
I’ve never watched it since I left Florida, when they had OK hurricane coverage (though the local channels generally did a good job when the things got near). But at least they did fire “decertifier” Heidi.