AT&T didn't let anyone with 3GSs upgrade. You had to have been at least, what was it, either 15 or 18 months into an existing contract to qualify for an early upgrade at the iPhone 4 launch. Given that the 3GS had only been out for 12 months at the time, no dice.

Apparently, a character from The Bob Newhart Show appeared in St. Elsewhere, making Newhart a dream within a fantasy.

Shuttles can only last about two weeks in orbit before they run out of reactants for the fuel cells. They wouldn't last much longer, even if you cut power consumption, because the hydrogen in the fuel tanks would continue to boil off whether your using it or not. Soyuz can stay in orbit much longer due to the fact it gets its power from solar panels and, when docked, directly from the space station.

Well, you could just stack the shuttle on the launchpad like they were planing to do at Vandenberg, but then you have to be able to roll the assembly building away.

An Atlas V HLV can, in theory, put 29,420 kg in LEO, which puts it between the Shuttle's 24,400kg and Falcon 9 Heavy's stated 32,000kg. However, no one's needed a Atlas Heavy yet, so it has yet to be flown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_heavy_lift_launch_systems

Wow, I've never seen lobbyist spelled that way before.

My favorite writing blunder was in the back half of the last season. Most fans who watched "Someone to Watch Over Me" were convinced that the Piano Man was Starbuck's dad and Daniel, Cylon #7, which would have helped explain how Starbuck resurrected on Earth and how she started playing "All Along the Watchtower." RDM's take on it, though, was something along the lines of, "Yeah, I can totally see how you guys think that, but the thought hadn't even crossed our minds. Sorry for giving you that idea."

I still think, in this case, the writers are wrong and the fans are right.

They had a dedicated Saturn set up for Bomberman with all the multitaps at PAX East. I got a few rounds in; it was pretty epic, but alot of time was spent figuring out what controller was for which guy.

It does seem miss some instances of time travel in the middle of a story. For instance, near the end of Smith and Jones, he goes back to the beginning of the day to take his tie off at Martha, and during Vincent and the Doctor, there were two round trips from 2010 to 1890, of which only the first leg is reported here.

OK, I may be over-nerding here even on a nerd topic.

"Our Russian mission commander is Pikov Andropov."

Taking Amy to art galleries, apparently.

If you want an in-universe explanation, I suppose some hand waving could link it to how the Doctor was able to regrow his hand in The Christmas Invasion. I suppose the writers could chalk it up to her being within 48 hours of her (re)generation cycle, so it was just superhealing rather then regeneration. Better explanation, though, is it's a TV show. The writers can make whatever they want happen, and it probably wasn't worth casting an extra actress for a 30 second scene.

I suppose the announcement comes to late for hands-on at PAX East this weekend, unless Nintendo's adopted the Apple-like strategy of not announcing products until they're in stock at the stores.

Fitting, given that Vermont Yankee is just outside of the Springfield where The Simpsons Movie premiered.

Weight. If you use nuclear power source, you've got to bring your fuel with you, where as with solar, the fuel is already packed away safely in the sun; you just need to bring a collector. Mars, unlike the outer planets, is still close enough to the sun that you get a reasonable amount of power from solar cells, if you have enough square footage, so solar wins the power/weight ratio contest. Besides, these things weren't built to survive the winter at all; the design requirements only called for three months.