MetaFilter posts tagged with nemesis

Second Suns and Planets X

grabbingsand — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:37:17 -0800

Second Sun? Not in my solar backyard! The so far successful Cassini-Huygens Mission has been extended by two years, but we can rest easy knowing that if NASA ever scraps the probe by sending it into Saturn's heart, the end result will not be a redundant Sun. After all, Galileo took a programmed header into Jupiter back in September 2003 and we're all still alive, right? But for some, that's not enough to disprove the biggest conspiracy of all time: Project Lucifer STARCHILD !!! [Cue Soundtrack Music] And if a human-engineered Second Sun is just too ludicrous, don't worry. The Internet has several Heavenly Bodies of Doom, each one ready and waiting to destroy Earth. There's Nemesis, The 12th Planet, The Red Persona, Nibiru (and the Anunnaki), and my favorite of them all, Planet X. (Previously: Cassini, Project Lucifer)

A Turkey of a Different Sort

TheWhiteSkull — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:31:53 -0800

Hopeless, hapless, helpless. England will not be competing in Euro 2008. Not surprisingly, the FA's response is swift. Now not even big Sam wants the job. For some reason Roy Keane weighs in. Others are probably having a quiet little chuckle. But should he ? It's probably time for the footballing equivalent of a unicorn chaser.

Data's mad at you, and he's still carrying a grudge.

WCityMike — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:09:30 -0800

Data's mad at you, and he's still carrying a grudge. Four years after the movie tanked, Brent Spiner, who portrayed the character of Data, still thinks it's your fault that Star Trek: Nemesis performed poorly compared to its predecessor. "'Let's make a movie for the fans, because that's the people who actually go to see the films.' And what happened?," Spiner rhetorically asks. "They didn't go!" (Other films that opened around the same time included a small arthouse production from An Nua-Shealainn.) It might have instead been that the movie resembled "a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up — and there's nothing to drink." Of course, one can take pity on Spiner; one look at his filmography and realize he's only a few cancellations away from having to sing for his supper. But at least he didn't end up (unjustly) on the cutting room floor (In the meantime, Shatner has his own problems.)