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The Bayformer thing is that its almost like they just stuck loads of puzzle pieces onto a standard endoskeleton. I much prefer it if a transformation is more integrated, so you can sort of see in robot mode what the vehicle mode was. Mind you, the ROTF Optimus Prime Leader toy is gorgeous... and I am extremely anxious to see what's gonna happen to him in the next one. I have a pic or two of the new Megatron toy. Avert thine eyes if you don't want to be spoiled.

So you are openly admitting you find the word "hardon" so funny you can laugh at it again and again and again.

Very early in the morning, a man and a woman, naked in bed together. The woman wakes up, and exclaims "Oh my God, my husband's come home!" The guy, who has the reflexes of a rattler, leaps out of bed, jumps out the window into the bushes below and shoots away like a thief in the night. The woman, meanwhile, puts on a robe, goes downstairs and makes coffee. Five minutes later, the door bell rings, and it's the guy, still naked, with some chafing and scratching from the bushes, rather cold and dirty and somewhat winded. And he says: "I am your husband!" And his wife calmly responds "So why'd you run away then?"

Wolverine is the most overrated hero in comicdom (with Batman as a close second). They're trying to fix that these days, though. Nick Fury's been busy in "Secret Warriors", mostly. Again, pretty dull, but at least it's about Nick and his commandos (the caterpillar squad) fighting HYDRA. And Leviathan. HYDRA has recently reappeared in force, and Nick discovered that HYDRA has essentially secretly been in charge of SHIELD since day 1. This is of course complete bull$#!t, but they had to do something to draw in the crowds (it didn't work). Anyway, HYDRA took a beating during the Secret Invasion when it turned out the Skrulls had infiltrated them, too, so they reorganized and regrouped, including a cabal of super-powered leaders (not unlike the Zoalords, really... Kraken, Lady Hydra, Viper, the Hive, Gorgon and Baron Strucker). It looked like they were really making a killing, especially with SHIELD disbanded and absorbed into HAMMER, but then Leviathan reappeared. Leviathan was apparently a super-secret Soviet operation from the 1940s or 50s, created in a response to HYDRA. They went underground and basically into deep-freeze for decades until recently. Leviathan and HYDRA are fighting surreptitiously, with loads of betrayal going on. Meanwhile, Nick Fury is trying to basically set up a clandestine version of SHIELD, nicking (ha ha) a bunch of heli-carriers from HAMMER and organizing a couple of hundred of former SHIELD agents who've resigned after Norman Osborn took over. It's not going so well. Anyway, it's all about as interesting as watching a caterpillar eat a leaf, and there's not much movement lately. Seriously, when Nick's not in charge of SHIELD he is not very effective. That whole 'Secret War' business from ten years ago was just a chump move.

I did not make that typo!

I'll be darned. I did not know that. But now I do! Now, Unicron crapping out the remains of a planet could actually work... I was going to start a movie featuring Unicron with a couple of minutes of seemingly unrelated science-fiction stuff on an alien planet. The aliens would be nonhuman, but not too unhuman - so you could identify with them. It would be a totally unrelated story which is cut short when their entire planet is devoured by Unicron. He lights up with the energy... and then, just excretes an enormous debris cloud. All that remains of a living world. Could work, if you do it deadpan. Of course, Unicron transforming would be kind of silly. When you think about it, Unicron has no reason to transform into humanoid mode ever. But at the same time, it's the coolest part.

I have severe doubts about a Bayformer Unicron. I liked Transformers, but Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen was just pretty bad. And what the hell kind of title is Dark of the Moon? Anyway... if they were going to have Unicron, they should have set it up sooner. Like, from the end of the first movie. Make it clear they need the Allspark. But considering Bay's record until now, he would probably have Unicron fart after eating a planet. Or worse.

Um... V, the force of gravity of a particular object - like a planet - is determined by its mass. Nobody knows what mass is, exactly, but they are hoping to discover the hypothetical mass entities, the so-called 'Higgs boson' using the Large Hadron Collider.'Gravitons' on the other hand, are the hypothetical carriers of gravitonic force between masses. The other aspect you were describing seems more like 'dark matter' and 'dark energy'. Those phenomena were 'discovered' when it came out that more than 9/10ths of the mass of the universe cannot be directly detected by any means we possess. But it does exist. "when you apply the theory of relativity to gravity the math doesn't add up" is an epic sentence. It its way.

Mind you, in "Guyver" there's lots of stuff going on that is beyond modern science, especially with the Zoalord. Their abilities seem to be more psionic than physical. Also, I overlooked the Guyver's (and presumably Guyot's and Mirabilis') gravitonic force fields. Not sure how they work. Maybe they suck the inertia out of whatever hits them, taking away its impact.

I'm pretty sure a magnetic field does not affect light. But it would be effective against a charged particle beam, like the Megasmasher. You could use an imaginary technology which sounds sort of real: a force field based on the strong nuclear force. Only without the atoms.

That wasn't even dealt with, it was barely hinted at. In the 'Illuminati' miniseries, Reed Richards was asked "I was told that the gems could not be used together anymore" and Richards answered: "And I wonder: says who?" Now, we happen to know it was the LT who said that, and what he says goes. Chaos War... brrr... I mean, at one point they had Shadowland - a battle for the heart of a part of one of New York's boroughs - run at the same time as "Chaos War" and "The Thanos Imperative" which are BOTH about the end of the universe, and yet Shadowland is by far the most interesting. And it's not even THAT interesting. Thanos Imperative is basically the end of Cosmic Marvel again, after the boost it got with Annihilation: Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova are over, too. But Chaos War takes the cake. Hercules was developed a lot over the last few years and he deserved better. The villain makes no sense at all in the context of the Marvel Universe: we already have a guy called Oblivion. And how could Chaos ever organize anything like a war? It's the Nekron Problem all over again.

Magneto is getting older and more disillusioned, too. Siege... my god, what a stinker was that. The aftermath is proving a lot more interesting. Secret Avengers is proving a major disappointment, I think I shall drop that... They're currently doing an arc on the resurrection of Fu frickin' Manchu, but they're not allowed to use his name because of copyright issues... and they're making a point of it!!! And Avengers and New Avengers aren't exactly off to shining starts, either. About New Avengers... A couple of years ago, during World War Hulk, Doctor Strange assumed the power of Zom, a particularly nasty über-demon from a couple of decades ago, to fight the Hulk. Zom-Strange actually had the Hulk on the ropes, but he wavered and got beaten. But Zom's imprint remained on Strange, until, a while later, in the pages of New Avengers, (The second annual, I believe), he found he had to leave. He had to stop being the Sorceror Supreme. So now there had to be a new SS, and the Eye of Agamotto (one of the most powerful magic items in the Marvel Universe and the official symbol of the Sorceror Supreme) sought out a new 'owner' and that turned out to be Brother Voodoo. Brother Voodoo - aka Jericho Drumm - is one of Marvel's great underused characters. Initially, his brother Daniel was the Houngan Supreme so to speak. But he died, and passed on the mantle to his brother, who was actually a doctor, not a magic user at all. So, just like dr.Strange, he went to study with an elderly mentor and soon mastered Voodoo magic. They made something of the conflict between his duties as a Houngan and as a doctor; it could have been interesting. Anyway, he now became Sorceror Supreme, taking on the enormous burden that came with the job; one of the first things he did was confronting Dormammu and locking him up, at least for a good long time, in a sub-dimension. He also confronted Dr.Doom, another traditional battle of Dr.Strange. He had his own series (cancelled after five issues) and to be honest, from the beginning it was as if I heard a ticking clock or timer. And sure enough, in the first arc of the second volume of New Avengers, Agamotto, the first Sorceror Supreme, after that a cosmic demi-god and creator of the Eye, appears and demands it back; he intends to "fold" Earth's dimension for some reason. Of course, dr.Strange and dr.Voodoo fight back... and in the end, Jericho heroically sacrifices himself. I am sorry, but I have a very hard time seeing this as anything else than "Kill the black guy first"-syndrome. It shows a lack of spine: they could have had dr.Strange do the sacrificing, passing on his powers to the new guy (just like the Ancient One did, thereby making Strange the new SS, back in the day), thereby avoiding the obvious and setting up a new status quo. But it was not to be. I am sure dr.Voodoo will be back some day... His very first appearance bore the blurb "The senses-staggering super hero who died - yet LIVES AGAIN!". Still, I doubt it will be as Sorceror Supreme. Meanwhile in Avengers: a time travel story with no repercussions whatsoever, partly based on the animated feature "Avengers next: heroes of tomorrow". It was a goofy, confused mess with little to no resolution. It also introduced a "road map" of Marvel's future timeline, but since this was established as an alternate future that did not even line up with the present of the Avengers that went to the future, it was rendered invalid immediately. It was supposed to feature an epic battle with Future Ultron, but that lasted about five panels. They should take a page from the book of mr.Takaya, who knows how you write a fight scene. The new arc has the Hood - a formerly interesting villain - becoming a cosmic-level threat in a really stupid way - Yeah, you see, there were these things called the Infinity Gems. Each of the gems controls one aspect of existence; the Time Gem allows you to control time, the Mind Gem gives you access to the minds of everybody anywhere, the Soul Gem allows you to control or take people's spiritual self, the Power Gem gives you more strength and energy than any other source in the universe, the Space Gem allows you to travel anywhere instantaneously or warp the structure of space, and the Reality Gem simply grants all your wishes as soon as you formulate them. When used together, they are basically the ultimate force in the Marvel Universe. Thanos once used them to become God. So a while ago, the Illuminati - Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Professor X, the Submariner, Black Bolt and dr.Strange - used their considerable resources to locate all six gems and put them somewhere safe. Each of them took custody of one of the gems and sealed it away where only they knew to find them. Well, the Hood - in essence, a glorified street punk who'd had a whiff of power - paid a lot of money to be taken to the former site of Attilan (the Inhuman capital), where he located Black Bolt's gem in no time at all and cracked its container in slightly less than no time at all. So now he possessed the Reality Gem... and he used it to simply wish himself to the next gem, which he then appropriated with even greater ease. Next, he found himself in the desert, fighting the Red Hulk. I could spend an entire paragraph on the Red Hulk, but suffice to say this is a classic case of jobbing to puff up the new guy. Honestly, this is not exactly one for the ages. All in all, the "Heroic age" has not turned out to be Marvel's brightest day just yet.

1) Dilophosaurus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilophosaurus Nothing is known about it being poisonous; it's practically impossible to tell from a skeleton alone. 2) There are no modern reptiles that are descended from dinosaurs. Birds are descended from them, however. 3) How would the Hippopotamus figure into this?

I think I should be very surprised if there were no dinosaur species that were poisonous. "Based on the common physiology of organism in the planet, it is mostly the pint size animals that have poisons... Dinosaurs being humongous as they are, would not need the poison in order to survive." Komodo dragons are pretty humongous. Also, many dinosaurs were 'pint sized' or at the very least no larger than a komodo dragon. Poison can be a huge return on investment: Komodos just bite their prey once, then wait him out. No frantic battles, no possibility of getting injured, but you still get to eat delicious buffalo. Michael Crichton made Compsognathus poisonous in his 'Jurassic Park' books.

Symbol, it is indeed good to have an open mind. But not so open that the wind blows out all rationality.

Currently watching Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann. I like it.

THAT is the best theory of the universe ever in MY book. Sheldon is so autistic.

Beautiful.

Well.. I think they were mainly terrified because they could not control the bio-boosted human. They knew how powerful Archanfel was. They were not afraid of him because he was totally obedient and could be directly controlled if need be. But as a Guyver, he would be free of them. Let alone what might happen if a Guyver-Zoalord went into the automated self-defense mode. But Murakami believed that a bioboosted Zoalord would be a "super-existence"... something far greater than a Zoalord. I mean, I have heard it said often that the Unit would not increase the power of a Zoalord by much because their potential is already fully realized. Suppose that's not how it works? What if it's the exact opposite? A normal Guyver is one hundred times as powerful as its human host... perhaps a bio-boosted Zoalord would have its power magnified by a hundred times one hundred times.

Guys. Come on. This hypothesis is from the eighties. The guy who came up with it has been dead for years. Guess what. Not a scientist has picked it up since. The notion that quantum entanglement - a phenomenon the greatest minds of our time have not yet understood, let alone explained - suggests the Disney notion that "we are all one" is just... not science. It is fancy wishful thinking.

This has nothing to do with science. It is fantasy. Which is fine! But please, let's not act as if it is real.

I so totally disagree with you.

Maybe the Zoa-Crystal would form a ring around the control medallion, like happens with the Gigantic. Or maybe it would take the place of the Head-Beam; we already know the crystal can act as a beam weapon, too. Or did I misremember that...? The location of the control medallion has always puzzled me. Why isn't there a nice layer of armor over it? Yes, it needs to be able to expand for interfacing with a ship, but how about a folding panel or something? Aptom has one covering his head beam weapon... Come to think of it, why aren't the wearers capable of altering their armor's layout and functions? Their brain and the medallion are connected. And I'll bet you anything Agito has TRIED...

I completely disagree with you. Terror Times Three, in my opinion, is the best Godzilla flick ever made. I mean, by your statement, Final Wars was better. And it wasn't.

That's odd. Between 75% and 85% of US citizens identifies themselves as Christian. Adversely, 0.6% is Muslim.