I live in Chicago, and as a result, have a pretty good idea where those fireworks are coming from in relation to Wrigley Field, and I can only think, "Wow. It's November 2, and you have illegal fireworks laying around, presumably left over from the 4th of July when you got too drunk to finish setting them off."

Or there's the very real possibility that they had a strategic reserve of fireworks on the off chance that the Cubs ever won the World Series, which, if true, is more astonishing that any went off.

Did anyone else notice the taco salad at 0:53? Quite a subversive bit of filmmaking there...

I liked how they worked in elements of his original costume as components of the experiment (the gauntlets and the headband).

Power Man's Original Look

It's a little goofy, but it works.

Even if you were to extend the definition to "Eurasia", as he no doubt does, it ignores something critical. The aboriginal Americans were masters of biotechnology. We have found the antecedents of maize, tomatoes, and potatoes, and they vary from utterly inedible to kinda poisonous. Over time, they transformed these noxious weeds into the crops that today keep billions of people alive. Imagine Italian cuisine without tomatoes. I would argue that maize was the Mezoamerican cathedral, a visible sign of their supremacy over the natural world.

Indeed. The only thing notable about this video (other than the bravura performance by Lindsey Stirling) is how evident it is that Freddie Mercury by himself could out-sing three men at the top of their craft.

When Baron Von Steuben was asked about the colonial troops he'd trained during the American Revolution, he wrote, "‘The genius of this nation is not in the least to be compared with that of the Prussians, Austrians, or French. You say to your [European] soldier, “Do this,” and he doeth it, but I am obliged to say, “This is the reason why you ought to do that,” and he does it.’”

That, in a nutshell, is what it means to be an American. We'll do it, but first you have to explain yourself. Of course, that can be trained out of them, but it's a lot harder than you'd think.

The solution is simple: people in these situations are all issued head mounted GoPros. Sure, we'll get a lot of jiggly camera movement, but, once it's obvious that you've survived, you look back and see where you were, thus giving us the money shot we crave.

Neat, but are all the planets chock-a-block full of life? If so, that's using a kind of math seriously divorced from our own experience with planets. Yes, it would be insanely boring if all the planets were either barren rocky planetoids (with the occasional microbial life) or gas giants. It reminds me a bit of when I returned to Minecraft six months ago, after not playing for a year or more. The new biomes made me want to pick a direction and walk and walk and walk, but after a while, it became monotonous.

Terry Pratchett had a pretty good explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIILp0jiXGs

But Yeshua said to them, “Let the children come to me and do not forbid them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.”

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

As Bill Maher said at the time, "They're called stingrays, not hug-rays."

MIND THE GAP!

Based on the book The Rebel: The Outlaw Josie Wales, written under a pseudonym by Asa Earl Carter, a White supremacist. There was a This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/527/transcript) which goes into AEC and The Education of Little Tree. It's interesting how, based on that, AEC's pecular point of view comes across quite clearly in this clip--the distrust of Blue Coats, the disdain for government, and even viewing the Native American as a "Noble Savage".

Well, I'm not getting that out of my head any time soon...

There really ought to be an *earworm invocation.