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Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on whether or not you have to pilot a spaceship)

Doesn't the shuttle basically pilot itself at this point? Then again, I suppose you have a whole different sort of issues if your autopilot starts drinking...

I'm surprised noone has said it yet, but do they have a predefined kill limit? So, if they get out of hand we can send wave after wave of men at them?

For food testing a Geiger counter may not be any good but I recommend using a Doom meter.

Or even worse, they'll be tuning in and somebody will spill beer on the broadcasting equipment.

Boring? Baseball wasn't... hmm, so they finally jazzed it up? Multiball! http://theinfosphere.org/Blernsball

The year 2620 will be nice.

We will finally have done away with Uranus jokes, because the planet gets renamed to Urectum.

Let the buggalo roam.

Currently there are only 1730 known parallel universes.

Whoosh.

Yeah well. It's been a long day. I'll go back to my room now.

Whoosh.

what is going to be remembered about the 20th century?

Whalers on the Moon?

Glagnar's Human Rinds!

It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster on planet Earth in the next hundred years...

Certainly, there are possibilities for many types of disasters - meteor/comet impacts, tsunami, volcanic eruption, global warmi...er....climate cha...um.... whatever the eco-freakos are calling it these days.

When I read that statement, I get the impression that there is some unavoidable, impending doom that Hawking knows about. Like "The next hundred years, holy crap - good luck! If you survive that - hold onto your hats, then it gets bad." as he escapes into a Hawking Hole

I think he meant "We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. But there aint no whales so we tell tall tales and sing our whaling tune." http://theinfosphere.org/The_Series_Has_Landed

In 1974, I released The Book Which Tells The Truth, which described my contact with the Elohim, the extra-terrestrials who created us scientifically in their laboratories, and who were mistaken for 'God' or 'gods' by our primitive ancestors, who were too ignorant to understand the truth. At the time, it was the public's enthusiasm for the 'UFO phenomenon' that made my books and the conferences I held around the world a success.

Nevertheless, when I explained that we would soon be able to do the same thing ourselves and live forever, thanks to cloning, many laughed. However, their laughter was tinged with the empty sound of those who have always been too shortsighted to see beyond their noses and foresee the fall of their own paradigms.

Which website will you pick to clone you? I think I'm going for the one that gave me some propaganda on a religion surrounding the Elohim. Sounds like they know what they're up to. Or maybe you've got advanced AIDS (one of the many treatable conditions which conveniently have no other cures) How does it work? Well, they just shoot you up with a bunch of stem cells. No, I'm serious:

Stem Cell Therapy, SCT, is a treatment that provides stem cells in the appropriate location to assist the body where it needs to heal and regenerate its existing cells.
Depending on the conditions, stem cells can be delivered through the blood stream or directly to the organ to treat. It isn’t understood yet how stem cell communicates with the body to determine and travel to sites of need but results have been observed showing stem cells located near the damage area and dividing there generating new differentiated healthy cells.

It's a process which many leading scientists suspect might be a miracle! And you know, if it doesn't work, you just didn't present the stem cells the right conditions and we just need you to pay for a trip back and more saline ... er therapy injections. Maybe you have a supressive person in your life who has been telling you that we are a scam and that's why the stem cell therapy didn't work? Anyone else reminded of Professor Farnsworth's trip to GeneWorks S.K.G. from Three Hundred Big Boys?

What about the Whalers?!

Double whoosh :P
http://theinfosphere.org/The_Scary_Door#The_Last_Man_on_Earth - a parody of the aforementioned Twilight Zone episode.

Hah! I could gum through that cheap diamondillium Dyson Sphere with my dentures behind my back! What we need is my patented ultra hard Diamondium!

Sponsered by Torgos Executive Powder.

You mean "Angry Norwegian" brand anchovies.

Jumbonium?

Happened to a friend of mine with his local Big Brothers/Big Sisters chapter. They told his Little that they were going to terminate their match of 6 years because my friend hadn't turned over his ID & password for any social networking sites he has an account on. They want access to it to make sure that Bigs aren't doing "bad" things and especially not posting information about/pictures of their Littles. Here's what he quoted from his chapter's policy (which he wasn't aware of previously):

q. Internet Usage

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region requires that applicants and current Big Brothers/Sisters inform agency staff if they have an active social networking site (i.e. Facebook, Myspace...) or personal website. It is the responsibility of the volunteer to:

• Provide full access to his/her social networking site to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region; and
• Provide Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region the location of any personal websites; and
• Ensure that content on any social networking site or website is appropriate for his/her Little to be exposed to and/or not share the content of or expose the site to his/her Little; and
• Understand that Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region reserves the right to conduct random audits of social networking sites and personal websites.

Additionally, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region requires that volunteers do not post any photographs, videos, drawings, or other visual representations of his/her Little in any way on the Internet.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region reserves the right to terminate any match based on the content of a volunteer's social networking site and/or website or a volunteer's failure to abide by this policy.

I told him that his response should be along the lines of "the terms of usage for those sites prohibits me from sharing my credentials. If I did so, I wouldn't be setting a very good example, would I?

In addition to the usual social networking sites, my friend has a few websites he runs on the side (as a business), might have a personal one as well, where do you draw the line?

Perhaps we'll all have to fall back to Ipgee's position.

Ipgee: So I said, "Your request for a date is most flattering Leela, but I'm afraid I must decline. These office romances never work out. After all, that is how I met my horrible wife."
Leela: But you never wore a ring, I didn't know you had a wife.
Ipgee: And my wife doesn't know I have a job, I keep my personal and professional life separate.

Exactly. The person and his claims should be evaluated independently. You shouldn't disbelieve everything an astrologer says just because he's an astrologer, nor should you believe everything that a whale biologist says just because he's a whale biologist.

And anchovies. Don't forget anchovies are the secret behind Mom's Old-Fashion Robot Oil, and they willon goion extinct around 2200.

http://theinfosphere.org/A_Fishful_of_Dollars

The Wong Library, it houses the largest collection of literature in the universe.
http://theinfosphere.org/File:MarsUniversityWongLibraryLitCollection.png

Project Satan to be exact.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Yes.

Ken Keeler, Eric Kaplan, David X. Cohen (obviously), Patric M. Verrone, among others are confirmed back. I probably forgot some.

Just to give you an idea on what these writers did, I am going to highlight one episode for each, respectively; "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", "Jurassic Bark", "The Why of Fry" and "The Sting".

They already did reveal some of the content for the coming production season at the Comic-Con panel. In case you want to see if they are still on the edge.

Sounds unlikely they are going to change actors though.

All of the actors are still very much alive, and not to mention are still very interested in Futurama, so doubting the return of the actors is not very justified.

But even if they can't get an actor back, remember what the writers of The Simpsons did when Phil Hartman died? Yeah, they retired his characters, in his honour.

Billy West, for instance, who voices Fry, Farnsworth, among others, have since the release of Into the Wild Green Yonder (well, and before) spoken out about the possibility of a return of the show. And have mention on occasion that Futurama was the best gig he ever had.

I recommend reading this article, for a timeline of what happened since Bender's Game with the possibility of a return.

It's about tourists in a future a thousand years from now.

Tourists, and restoration sticklers...

It is not a search engine but rather a factual answer database.

Feh. Who needs a factual answer database when all you need is the giant Infosphere. You can even learn that yes, postage-stamp glue is made from toad mucus!

Here: http://theinfosphere.org/Mom's_Old-Fashioned_Robot_Oil

According to Mom, anything that moves with a load for any time should be lubricated to improve efficiency and wear.

Is Mutant Atomic Supermen, so I'm okay with the rest.

What they need is the Infosphere!

Why stop at the sad face? What you need is an unlucky orphan robot with a crutch.

When was the last time you saw slug wear a jacket?

Could have sworn Slurms wore a leather jacket, but Glurmo's suit jacket counts:
http://theinfosphere.org/images/e/ee/Glurmo.jpg

It depends on who you ask. Old episode lists follow the Fox order of the original four seasons spread out over five. Newer lists show episodes in the original order with the DVDs episodes as season five.

http://theinfosphere.org/Episode_Listing#Season_5

The site's running MediaWiki, so the image description page, by necessity, is at http://theinfosphere.org/Image:Molten_Boron.jpg (also, a full size version of the image is at http://theinfosphere.org/images/7/78/Molten_Boron.jpg, but you will get another 403 if you just try clicking that link)

The site's running MediaWiki, so the image description page, by necessity, is at http://theinfosphere.org/Image:Molten_Boron.jpg (also, a full size version of the image is at http://theinfosphere.org/images/7/78/Molten_Boron.jpg, but you will get another 403 if you just try clicking that link)

Probably deeplink prevention. Go here instead and follow the appropriate link.

"Nobody does it like molten boron"

http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/7/78/Molten_Boron.jpg/200px-Molten_Boron.jpg

I'm just a country lawyer, but as far as I know: (a) it's not possible to appeal the order, (b) it was procedurally improper and ineffective to file a notice of appeal, and (c) it was improper to direct their motion for a stay to the District Court Judge.

Well, I'm not a lawyer but isn't it pretty much the modus operandi of lawyers who are paid insane amounts of money to toe the line in the interest of their clients?

I am by no means defending this action, but ... come on, you wouldn't do the same thing? They've been getting away with everything in private for so long, why ruin a good thing? If this becomes popular, the bawling college student they win a $500,000 suit against isn't going to help their image as heartless vampires.

Great. First we had to worry about sharks with lasers attached to their heads. Now we need to worry about sharks with lasers spitting out antimatter beams. Add a Reverse Scuba Suit into the mix and mass panic will ensue!