Cool, now I know how to call my spaceship in the next space game I’m gonna play.

Fair enough.

I call bullshit on that one. Santa is red and white because Coca Cola drabbed him in their colors for a marketing campaign and it catched on. Before that Santa was usually portrayed in white and green.

The probably pounced on their prey though when they were sure they would catch them.

Ants “see” mostly by smells. This would probably smell like another ant and thus wouldn’t be bothered.

There it is, the long lost city of Atlanta!

CITIZEN! DO NOT BE ALARMED! YOU WILL FEEL A SMALL TICKLING SENSATION AND THEN DEATH!

Eh, it’s alright for what it is. It’s a sequel that’s mostly enjoyable and entertaining. And feels like classic Burton through and through. Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton are also obviously having a lot of fun.

The original script for the Matrix had the machines use human brains for data processing, but the Wachowskis were told by the studio to simplify it.

Oh, didn’t know the one with no color in peripheral vision, that’s fun!

I mean we hear the sound of our blood rushing through the veins of our ears at all times, but our brain filters it out. That the “sound of the ocean” you hear when listening into a conch, it just amplifies the bloodwaves. Other fun stuff our brain does: Our eyes are actually perceiving the world upside down and with a blind spot right in the middle.

And his brother opened a park for dinosaurs.

Probably a camera of some sort.

Yes, exactly. I lived in a collapsing society as a child and mostly life goes on, it just gets harder and there are less luxuries.

In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.

I really like my water pillow.

I mean, your bed is home to tens of thousands of microscopic bugs as well. I’d rather not smell them.

There was already an outbreak of thousand year old Anthrax from thawed animal corpses in Siberia several years ago.

He did a TED talk in 2010 and there are several articles about him. Not much news in recent years, I guess he wasn’t very succesful in turning his motion control concept into a viable product. I interviewed him about eight years ago.

Shout out also to John Underkoffler who was the technical advisor on Minority Report (and later Iron Man). The gesture controls in that movie heavily inspired the first smartphones.