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I actually thought he had gotten himself banned, but it may have been voluntary after he was asked to quit spamming the blog with pseudoscience crackpot theories like his “magnetic forcings” spiel, or insistence that a new ice age is on the way. I can see he’s chosen to ignore that and go back to his old ways.

Owosekun was brought because she grew up in a Luddite community that would have rejected technology – so closer to the community in New Eden. Nothing to do with religious beliefs

David Wentz captured this audio of a fracking operation at a well pad on his farm in 2014. The drilling work went on for months.

That reinterpretation of Clarke’s Third Law is a real life fact. Meaning the show didn’t make that up.

Corylea — you mean like the “generic” fist fighting sequences Kirk routinely had? The reality is, there has always been pointless action sequences in Star Trek to appease a certain portion of the audience. I’d rather they do exhilarating spaceship stuff than fist fights, YMMV. From my perspective, adapting a pod designed to do something else to solve the problem of getting them where they needed to go, is very Star Trek like. The fact Trek never really had the budget to do things like that before, doesn’t mean they wouldn’t have.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” has a good time showing how Queen conceived a handful of their iconic hits, from the ominous funk of “Another One Bites the Dust” to the gladiatorial surge of “We Are the Champions.” But for most of the film, the awesome expressiveness of Freddie Mercury, the way he used his voice as an enraptured instrument of agony and ecstasy, isn’t front and center. It’s telling that Queen’s 1976 single “Somebody to Love” isn’t featured in the movie (it’s just background music), because not only is it one of their greatest songs, it’s one of Mercury’s most ardently autobiographical. It could have been an epiphany — but the film backs away from it, because it’s backing away from the emotional bravura of what Freddie Mercury was singing.

“Traverse” is a platform for spatial audio experiences. Using a mobile device and audio-driven AR technology, each “Traverse” experience takes an audio recording and makes it something you can physically move through. (World Premiere)

“Parks & Recreation” star Ben Schwartz provides the voice for Sonic and stars opposite James Marsden and Jim Carrey as the live-action humans in the film. Jeff Fowler directs the video game movie, and “Fast & Furious” producer Neal Moritz is producing along with “Deadpool’s” Tim Miller executive producing.

Some CO2 molecules are consumed by plant life, some enter the ocean, some stay in the atmosphere for days, weeks, months, years, decades and or eons.

My thought is this, when it comes to Star Trek I prefer to use my imagination rather than base everything on reality. It is a fable that shows a potential future I think.

Still, I’d be less than honest if I didn’t admit that the whole thing felt a little hollow. Harlan Ellison once famously opined that the only kind of story really worth telling was one of “the human heart in conflict with itself,” and that certainly was not something last night’s season premiere even tried to go for. In truth we only got a bare glimpse of how the emotional components of this story — Pike’s assuming command, Burnham’s and Spock’s estrangement and how it ties-in with the “red angel” signals — will play out over the course of the season. The flight through the asteroids in particular (and the offing of an obnoxious Starfleet officer) felt like a reprise of the orbital drop sequence from Trek 2009 — a big, elaborate set-piece that didn’t advance the narrative in any meaningful way or to any particular purpose. It was the quieter, more reflective moments in “Brother” that made it somewhat worthwhile, as opposed to the spectacle. So I’ll have to call the episode more of a promising beginning than a triumph on its own. Season 1 started with a lot of promise too, so we’ll just have to see.

Afterburn, Disagree. Action is an essential component of drama, and without a certain measure of well-executed action, there’s bound to be an imbalance for most — not all — stories. Decrying action as pointless is just pointing up bad writing, including action that is gratuitous. You CAN play a space battle entirely with interiors — hell, they’ve done CORBOMITE MANEUVER as a stage play! — but your drama has to be written and pitched at the right level to sustain that approach.