Ed Grabianowski's discussions

Classic Who DVDs? Like "Live at Leeds"? Read more

What, you're not satisfied by the enormous number of marijuana/9-11 conspiracy theory documentaries on Netflix streaming? Read more

The Ultimate Nullifier is pretty, um...ultimate. Read more

I have to mention Dr. Giles Brindley, who demonstrated his new erection inducing drug in 1983 at a science conference by dropping his pants, injecting phenoxybenzamine directly into his penis and showing off the result. Read more

Haha, awesome. Zombie fighting plants is the next phase of the research! Read more

Lana Clarkson as you have frequently seen her before! Read more

That wasn't Whitesnake, man. That was Great White. Subtle difference, I know, but I don't think David Coverdale ever ended up doing the dive bar circuit. Read more

Hate me if you must, but I thought this looked kind of awesome. Read more

It was in the original set of images I wanted to include, but I had trouble with the new gallery layout, so some stuff got left out. Read more

@tomqvaxy: Wasn't that the name of a Danzig album? Read more

"played creepily by Rutger Hauer." Read more

@icelight: You're right, it's totally arbitrary. And there's this weird consensus in SETI (for the most part), for 30 years everyone's been really sure of themselves that that's where we should look. Read more

@commentotron: Some astronomers think we should be looking elsewhere in the spectrum. There are a couple of different methodologies smart aliens might use. One of the WoW! theories was that it was a strong pulse signal meant to clue us in on where to look for a weaker, continuous signal, but even using very sensitive… Read more

@icelight: Also related is astronomers assuming aliens would send out a signal with some kind of inherent mathematical constant. The resonant freq. of the most common element seems like something any technological civilization would know. I guess it's as good a place to start as any. Read more

Just to elaborate on the Cromwell quote, here is undoubtedly the best use of it, from Bronowski's Ascent of Man, as he holds the ashes of his murdered ancestors in his hand.

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." Read more

When I lived in Kansas, I learned that the state had a great library system (much better than New York's). I could order a book on interlibrary loan from any library in the state, including university and prison libraries. If I ordered a Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms novel, it invariably came from Leavenworth. Read more

I think she might be a worse dancer than me. Read more

Whenever I hear that one Foo Fighters' song, I think of aeolipiles. Read more