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Firing a big clump of waste on a well-documented 10,000 year orbit is just as good for the practical purpose of removing it as a hazard on earth.
I think it has a chance of coming back in about 1995 years, but hopefully Fry will save the world.

Were the writers of The Simpsons always consistant?

Considering that the entire town has been lifted and relocated, it could've had multiple completely different layouts at times.

And considering that even TIME isn't consistent there (Bart has been 13 for 15 straight years)... you couldn't expect geography to make sense either.

You want to attach a combustion engine to a computer?

Will the people assembling these systems be required to grunt while working?

The only thing that would save this show would be to cancel the show and have a final episode where an Ensign Daniels walked out of a holodeck on Enterprise-D, to be railed on about historical inconsistencies by Data.

"Get a life ... will ya, people? I mean, for cryin' out loud, it's just a TV show." -- William Shatner

Sure, I wouldn't mind seeing Shatner on Enterprise. If he's reprising his role as Kirk or playing Kirk's (great?) grandfather, then I'm going to be angry.

Looking at the Nielsen ratings and that Enterprise is moving to the "Friday Evening Timeslot of Certain Cancellation," I'd like the last season to be better than a retread of the Berman/Braga bag-o-tricks of propping up hack creativity with a cameo of a favorite character.

This thing is amazing: Dragon Runner today is a 9-pound electric vehicle about 15 inches long, a little less than a foot wide and just five inches in height. Moreau said Dragon Runner can operate in three modes:

Drive mode. The machine has a top speed of 20 mph and also can be operated slowly and deliberately. The video camera transmits color imagery to the operator, who controls it using a hand-held controller/view screen.

Sentry mode. It can operate as a stationary listening post, with a directional microphone and sensors that can detect motion up to 30 feet away. If it detects something, it can alert the operator by vibrating the hand control or sending a verbal "motion left" or "motion right" alert through an earphone.

Watch mode. Again, the vehicle would remain motionless, but would use its cameras to relay information.

You can also strap a bomb or weapon to it. This thing would definitely win the top spot in BattleBots.

Which makes me wonder how long until the only "combatants" that have to be sent into a war zone are the guys who throw these robots all over the place (or drop them from planes?) then hide in a secure place and view/control/eradicate problem. No casualties (on the side with the bots, that is), and no PR problems from increases in breadth and pervasiveness of combat coverage by the media.

Unless the media gets ahold of the video stream somehow. Better encrypt that well :)

Torches...Mobs...Bah! "back in the day", it was just us.

My first attempt matched me up to a very nice looking female.

This was actually covered on Futurama season 2, The Lesser of Two Evils, when Bender runs into (techincally, runs over) his twin Flexo, a twin with a goatee... shortly thereafter, a priceless tiara goes missing, and Flexo is the suspect...

In the end, it turns out that the Evil Bender robot is Bender after all...

For a slightly different take on Christianity as it collides with the concept of extra-terrestrial life, there's always Arthur C. Clarke's The Star, which became a Twilight Zone episode, from the mid-1980's revival of that series.

The basis of the story is the wavering faith of a priest who has to come to terms with God sacrificing a entire civilization with a peaceful, rich culture, so that a star would shine over Bethlehem.

Because his custom bear suit didn't work so well according to The Fat and the Furriest (#EABF19 / SI-1419) episode. ;)

Absolutely nothing compared to the butt on Mercury!

People of Earth, Prepare to taste the Mighty foot of my Planet! Ha ha ha ha ha a ha ha.

• to the Africa planes

You mean like Marklar?

Orton talks about the transformation of the company within the last three years

Wow, he's sure come a long way from being a starship hijacker on ST:TNG!!

What is up with the infatuation those southpark people have with homosexual solutions to non-sexual problems? Such as public transportation, in the form of a dildo powered bike and this latest one are the most blatent.

Maybe they just have a large latent homosexual crowd watching them, maybe it is just good marketing?

Let me guess - Back Door Sluts 9?

From episode 174. It was a pretty funny episode. :)

I even found two video clips: #1 and #2. Here are two screen captures: #1 and #2. Thanks to Google for finding these. ;)

Law & Order: RIAA

It's more like CSI: RIAA

I saw the same thing, but it was on an old Green Acres episode (#053).

I think the creators of Green Acres should sue on the basis of Prior Art.

fs

Penn and Teller had a great episode of Bullshit on Environmental Hysteria. Nothing new to anyone who's even take a SMALL amount of time to reseach such issues -- but it's nicely packaged and quite amusing.

those must be some mighty fine headlights, why not just equip the car with nightvision goggles, it would be cheaper.

Funny you should mention Jackass. I've been watching Wildboyz "From the creators of MTV's Jackass". I hated Jackass but this is pretty funny, and almost comes close to bordering on educational. It's like Jackass meets Crocodile Hunter.

I hope they continue to delve into the olefactory sences as well.

ie.
10. Chump
09. Chumpette
08. Yours
07. Up
06. Pimpmobile
05. Bite
04. My
03. Shiny
02. Daffadill
01. Ass

Katie Sagal had the Futurama and 8 Simple Rules gigs going on simultaneously for a year or so.

She started Futurama in 1999, and 8SR in 2002. . I'm pretty sure she had a few months overlap be for the cancellation was announced in Feb 2003. /p?

What's the first thing do you do with a subwolfer that size? Why play the brown noise (that certain frequency that causes someone to lose bowel control and crap their pants) of course.

Moderation suggestion: -1, too geeky even for slashdot!

Episode 51. By Any Other Name

Kelinda: This business of love...you have devoted much literature to it. Why do you build such a mystique around a simple biological function?
Kirk: We enjoy it!

The Kelvans commandeer the Enterprise so they can travel back to the Andromeda galaxy and return to invade us.

Along the way, the entire crew, except Kirk, Scott, McCoy and Spock are reduced to softball-sized crystals, which, while retaining the original person's complete physiology and memory allowing eventual resoration, are extremely fragile and destroying one effectively kills the person.

Stardate 4657.5: Responding to a distress call from an Earth-like planet, a landing party from the Enterprise beams down to investigate. Soon, Kirk and the others learn that those responsible for the faked message are actually aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy sent out to scout for other galaxies to conquer. They managed to penetrate the energy barrier, but their ship was destroyed in the attempt. Now they need the Enterprise in their return trip to Andromeda, a voyage which will take 300 years and many generations of Kelvans to complete. The Kelvans are ruthless in their methods, planning to eventually return to this galaxy from Andromeda and conquer all other civilizations in their path. Kirk is unable to fight the paralysis field the Kelvans employ against them, and he seems willing to accept their fate. But once out of the galaxy, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty, the only Enterprise crewmembers not reduced to crystalline form, discover a weakness in the Kelvan's plans. Because they were forced to take human form, the Kelvan's seem to show confusion over their newly acquired human senses and emotions. In order to save the ship, Kirk and the others work on giving the Kelvan's an overload to their senses. Scotty gets one of the Kelvans drunk while Kirk makes advances towards the Kelvan female, Kelinda, which makes the Kelvan leader, Rojan, extremely jealous. McCoy injects one of the other Kelvans with an irritant, claiming it to be vitamins, which causes him to be quarrelsome. A fight breaks out between Rojan and Kirk over Kelinda, and Kirk manages to convince Rojan that because of they're exposure to humans the Kelvan descendants that finally reach Andromeda will be so alien to other Kelvans that they will be considered invaders. Rojan accepts Kirk's offer of help from the Federation, and McCoy suggests that the planet they took refuge on would make a perfect place to begin their own colony.

Reliable sources indicate it would actually cause a temporal perception shift, resulting in the ability to move at speeds much greater than normal.

Everyone knows that drinking 100 cups of coffee gives you super powers since everything seems to move in slow motion arround you. (The conclusive study will be conducted on 6/15/3003)

Episode 67 I love this episode...check out the synopsis here: weeee

No, it was 100 cups of coffee at $3 per cup. Believe me, I know.

Sincerely,
Matt Groening
Executive Producer, Futurama

5) Watch Mythbusters

(FYI: The rail test proved very negative... And their setup more closely resembled an electric fence than anything). :-)

A Big Piece of Garbage

It's like the Simpson's episode where Homer get elected to sanitation commisioner and rapidly bankrupts the department with his crazy spending. You can say anything in a campaign - remember "No new taxes" from Bush's father? Maybe we should make it against the law to lie when running for office?

Dib: You'll never... get away with this...
ZIM: You speak craziness, Earth boy. More organs means more human. It WILL work.

-- Invader ZIM, episode 7

Man, I forgot about Riptide. But better still was the Misfits of Science ... "Johnny B" the dude who could shoot bolts of lightning from his fists was soooo cool!

Epguides.com
TV Tome

and lets not forget the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen

Elaine was just so damn sexy that I had to watch the show occasionally.

Robotcop III can walk, dance, move in any direction...

It's the arrivial of real life Cop Rock!

Bigfoot (Harry) even had a sitcom comedy on TV! ;)

http://www.tvtome.com/FamilyGuy/

and this:

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13622,00.htm l?tnews

Could it be...?

Joe Friday is gonna be pissed!

WKRP on the Web

Married ... with Children - Dud Bowl II

I'd be worried if someone made a Dawsons Creek Trapper Keeper mod :-)

Here's a link for you non South Park people.

I would have to disagree with this statement. While he is known for those movies he did 30 odd years ago, for the last ten years Mark Hammil has been a professional voice actor lending his talent to a huge number of animated shows. Just from listening to his definitive Joker in Batman the Animated Series you can tell he is one of the best voice actors around.

I would like to propose Manimal.

To quote tvtome:
Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man, Manimal."
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I would like to propose Manimal.

To quote tvtome:
Jonathan Chase, master of the secrets that divide man from animal, animal from man, Manimal."
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