icelight commented on The Best Collaborative Novels in Science Fiction

"I think I would have included the Motie books by Niven and Pournelle before Inferno."

icelight commented on 50 Consumer Technologies Developed by NASA in the Last 50 Years

"@vgart: Doubling NASA's budget (~12B dollars) is about 1% of the total expenditures on the financial crisis."

icelight commented on Sarah Palin = Star Wars, Hillary Clinton = Star Trek

"Does that Hillary/Janeway photoshop look almost exactly like the First Lady from the West Wing?"

icelight commented on 20-Gigabit Wireless Data Achieved By Crossing Laser Beams

"@RayCeeYa: Actually, they aren't."

icelight commented on A Conspiracy of Badness in Novel Writing

"I'd blame a recent surge I've seen in military science fiction on shelves (related to the war perhaps?) that has publishers scraping a little deeper into the barrel than they normally would."

icelight commented on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Will Hold NASA Cargo, Humans

"SpaceX, while making admirable strides, is still a very long way from launching actual people."

icelight commented on Philips 3D Autostereoscopic TV Requires No Glasses, Is Gentle On The Eyes

"@jibbly: Also, they seem to be saying that's for the 3D effect, which would be fantastic."

icelight commented on New Jumpgate: Evolution Trailer

"@darthpepito: I think that's one of the reasons I'm excited about it."

icelight commented on Glitch Drops Google Stock Price $200 in Four Minutes, Wiping Out $62 Billion

"@VakeroRokero: Did you even bother reading the article to see that those will be canceled?"

icelight commented on Earth: A Very Special Place In the Void

"It does make some sense insofar as we have yet to discover some scale on which the universe isn't at least partially granular, up to and including superclusters of thousands or millions of galaxies, and structures like the Great Wall."