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This sounds similar to the solution in Futurama episode #57, "Crimes of the Hot" where they used to drop a gigantic ice cube in the ocean. First Episode of Season 5

What's so hard to understand about it? It's the heaviest, densest matter available and it powers spaceships duh. Oh yeah, and Nibbler craps it.

I prefer graviolis to go with the gravitons! Just don't put metal in the microwave at the same time.

If you do not understand this post, read #8 here.

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/FrameGrabs/2 ACV18/Grabs/pic00045.jpg

In futurama they cooled the earth with giant ice cubes mined from Halley's comet and dropped into the worlds oceans. So maybe cooling the oceans is a good thing.

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSound s/1ACV08/11.mp3

Personal favorite:
Speaker: "And the winner is ... Number 3, in a quantum finish."
Farnsworth: "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"

"Hey! Do the Bender! This move is called the Bender!"[1]

This is a forum for freedom of expression, not fascist moves.

Nope, it was dark matter:

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Encyc-13-Ni bblonians/

Futurama would of been higher up if they hadn't cancelled it. I mean with community sites like "Can't Get Enough Futurama" organizing signature drives in the 10k's and sales of the DVD compilations setting records for sales it would be madness not to do something more with the franchise than comic books. The rumored direct to DVD movie coming out in 2007 will hopefully see a return of the series if it sells well enough.

When I saw this article in The Onion, it reminded me a lot of these episodes of Futurama.

A choice quote:

Giant brain: Pathetic human race. Arranging their knowledge by category just made it easier to absorb. Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands.

This isn't supposed to happen until 2208

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/ListsRefere nces/timeline2.dhtml

Joey Mousepad might come after you for stealing his style, though.

http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/EpisodeSound s/4ACV11/

...However, he has already had his name besmirched by Welshy.

One of the researchers involved thinks the dwellers of this artificial world may even develop ritualistic practices.

Sounds like this experiment may have been inspired by a Futurama episode.

Bender: "Listen here, Malachi. Time for a religious donation. Hand over your wallet!"
Malachi: "But Lord, we are a poor and simple folk."
Bender: "Poor? Aw, crap."

I forgot the link.

The 'water planet' named 'Trisol' on Futurama has three suns.

Episode: 1ACV07 - My Three Suns

The Problem with Popplers

Bender: "That's no flying saucer! That's my ass!" [mp3 here]

What does this mean for Fry and his past-nastification?

What does this mean for Fry and his past-nastification?

The original short article from which this was taken (well, the title is exactly the same) is online here, at gotfutrama.com - (shameless plug here) the best (and possibly only?) Futurama news site.

Idiot, "kill-bot" is from Futurama, not the Simpsons. :)

I see someone else recognized Calculon's cameo appearance.

Calculon

Bender: "Hey. Yeah! I could write a song. With real words, not phony ones like 'odeley'.
Beck: "'Odeley' is a real word. Just look it up in the becktionary."
Bender: "Ooo."

something about fry's lower horn being jerked

(The `woooo!' joke gets very old by the end of the show, I might add.)

Apparantly Cartoon Network has been known to censor other parts of the show as well, so maybe I'm just thinking of something else.

Sleep, little dumpling. I have replaced your mother.

demolition man
referenced in an episode of futurama
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Capsules/3A CV09/

wonder if benders antenna is for city wide wifi...
it looks about the right sort of size

just as long as breakfast isn't a poppler and neither are you...

Reference for you.

Contrast this with George Takei, Deforest Kelly, or Jimmy Doohan who have always been big supporters of Trek fandom.

Doohan refused to appear on Futurama reprising his role as Scotty, which is why he got replaced by the fake character Welshie.*

On the other hand, Shatner was willing to poke fun at his own hubris:

Nimoy: Melllvar, you have to respect your actors. When I was directing Star Trek IV, I got a magnificent performance out of Bill because I respected him so much.
Shatner: And when I directed Star Trek V, I got a magnificent performance out of me, because I respected me so much!

(* Site has anti-deep-linking measures in place - copy and paste link)

Discuss amongst yourselves:
The SF show, Star Trek, a show that tries to make its techno-babble sound serious, comes off as imminently mockable because of a lack of scientific grounding among its writers and producers. On the other hand, Futurama, a SF cartoon whose science is meant to sound funny, actually has some serious math and science due to the backgrounds of the executive producer and some of the writers.

SharkJumper

He reminds me of someone, but I'm not sure I can put my finger on exactly who...

Somehow, when Nixon died, he was "remembered" as a great American.

He was?

Does it have to be?
Does it have to be just a television program? Can't it grow into something more? Can't it be a movement? Can't it be a means to spreading a message of hope and logic and tolerance?

Thus begins the first steps toward the Church of Trek.

Single female lawyer!

A real example
This is flexo and even though he did not steal the dimestore tiara, and bender did, he is still considered more evil.

Can it be defeated by a 10th level vice president?

The maximum detection range appeared to be roughly 40 feet (line of sight), which is not exactly great, but this can likely be blamed on the antenna...

He doesn't mind

However, who would want to detect a Wi-Fi if he's not going to use it? If you're already a mobile user, it might be easier to just use your device's auto-detection software.

I agree that there are times when I wish I could have detected the signal before I take out my laptop, but I usually solve that problem by starting up my PDA first.

I don't believe there is any merit to this simplistic view of economics, which seems so prevalent on Slashdot. For example: "Digital music files can be reproduced ad infinitum, are, therefore, without value, and thus can be traded freely with no impact to the recording industry."

None of the ingredients in a basic cake are particularly scarce. So, once the baker has sold his first 1000 cakes, he can bake more. This, and the fact that just about anyone can bake a cake, is why a basic cake costs so little. If there were only those 1000 cakes in the world, they would cost much more. This is the application of scarcity.

A better analogy would be to compare a (good) programmer and his source code with an experienced cake decorator. You can buy a sheet cake for $50, but a fancy wedding cake could cost you hundreds, I suppose. You're paying for the decorator's service, his skills. Similarly, source code, as little more than a text file, is in some sense worthless. However, not just anyone could have written the code to do what that code does, in just the way it does it. When you pay the programmer to write it, you're paying for his knowledge and experience.

whats funnier is that you believed a movie. There is nothing sadder than people who get their knowledge form a 2hr movie. Other people involved with the Carlyle Group are Jimmy Carter and many members of the Clintion admin,

First of all: Getting truthfull info from a documentary doesn't diminish the validity of the information. He obviously would not have gotten that knowledge by means other than a widely distributed and very popular movie.
(don't give me any of that "it's not a documentary if he only documents what he's trying to tell us" crap, I take that as proof of mental retardation)

Secondly: So the military supplies manufacturer isn't dumb enough to only make friends with one of the two alternating parties in power? Who'd have thunk? Since this seems to surprise you, tell me, in the future, will you vote for Jack Johnson or John Jackson?

whats funnier is that you believed a movie. There is nothing sadder than people who get their knowledge form a 2hr movie. Other people involved with the Carlyle Group are Jimmy Carter and many members of the Clintion admin,

First of all: Getting truthfull info from a documentary doesn't diminish the validity of the information. He obviously would not have gotten that knowledge by means other than a widely distributed and very popular movie.
(don't give me any of that "it's not a documentary if he only documents what he's trying to tell us" crap, I take that as proof of mental retardation)

Secondly: So the military supplies manufacturer isn't dumb enough to only make friends with one of the two alternating parties in power? Who'd have thunk? Since this seems to surprise you, tell me, in the future, will you vote for Jack Johnson or John Jackson?

Gender-Bending Lobster

Right, for that, you'll want to try Bender's Dating Service - Discreet and Discrete. Now with more discretion!

I for one wouldn't want some foul mouthed robot like http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Encyc-8-Ben der/ Bender preparing my botox injections.

> What is the mighty moon worm?

Al Gore did a guest spot in an episode of Futurama called "Crimes of the Hot". In the episode, when Al Gore (as a head a the jar) is introduced to speak about Global Warming, he announces himself by saying, "I have ridden the mighty moon worm!"

Al Gore's daughter Kristin Gore was a writer for Futurama, so he was on the show a couple of times.

Obligatory Futurama reference:

If you've seen Futurama, then you should've heard of
the wily "Gravity", who will foil all your plans to build an atmosphere on Mars.

You can't hold air without Gravity on your side. So start saving to build a diamond shell around the planet, or simply accumulate enough asteroids to bulk up the mass to the point of restraining an atmosphere... either way, LUDICROUSLY EXPENSIVE.

live in an actual biodome

You're the one who brought up "biodomes". I had only said "enclosed habitats", which are a much broader category, and include not only non-dome shapes, but totally different approaches to life.

Vote for Richard Nixon's Head in 2004!

Who knows, but 100 cups of coffee causes you to become transcendental as time slows down around you, allowing you to save all your friends from a gigantic spider silk tapestry fire.