I just googled Puppy juice. I don't think you meant Puppy juice.

The reason that they are considered indie is because the studios have opted to only invest in the large budget films that are reliably going to pull in more than they spend. If you only make a profit of 20% above your costs and that cost is $10mil then that's still a $2mil profit.

It primarily advertising. Multiple small budget films compete with each other, and if you are only using a budget of 2-3mil it makes no sense to spend 1mil on advertising, selling it to reviewers, and seeding the internet with rumours. Even if it does well it's small potatoes. Most are only recognized as jewels after they have spent their one week in the theatre and are replaced by the next.

However, big budget films will consistently draw a large proportion of the public even if it's garbage. Despite the previews which show every exciting/funny/entertaining moment in the movie and explain the entire plot in 15 seconds, the buzz will pull the majority of movie-going people in. If it's good, then the rest will see it too. Most will make back their investment and the rare few which are half-decent will fund many years of future investment.

If we keep telling people that, I can keep my own 0.3km2!

Great, now all we have to do is see if it responds to music, spray the insides of the Statue of Liberty with it, crank up the tunes and have her walk down the streets of New York.

They could even make a movie out of it! Or a sequel!

Just announced: Corey Hart has joined on as the lead promoter of the new "computational knowledge engine." In related news they have now renamed the engine to signify the merging of their separate talents.

"I believe that Wolfram Hart has the ability to become the Alpha and the Omega of internet informatics" said Hart in a midnight press conference.

Not everyone is celebrating this new turn of events, however. A man only identifying himself as Angel has come out in opposition to a company who openly support those that wear their sunglasses only at night.

What many people seem to forget is evolution is not all about solidifying change.

Perhaps us biologists are responsible for this, we continually focus on how evolution happens as a result of natural selection weeding out the weak genes from the code in favor of those most helpful to the existence of the species in question. This is important - survival of the fittest, the ability for those most adapted to their niche to carry on. However, if a species continually has pressure on its survival, to the point that only a very small, select group of the species can continue, any further insult or stress will threaten their extinction. Take the pandas, very cute yes, highly adapted to survive eating something that no other large animal does, but by only surviving on a select food source when that source (read: habitat) is gone so will they be.

The second part to evolution is variability. Part of our design (oops, did I use a bad word there?) is a faulty copying system. Like a book that randomly changes text, removing words, changing their order, writing whole sections backwards. Now some of these are neutral, blue vs brown eyes. Many to most of these changes are probably bad, they compromise our ability to fit in our environment perfectly. They lead to challenges like Down's Syndrome, or "weird" hiccups like androgen insensitivity syndrome. Some people's knees wear out early, others have no concept of morality. Many people in this world survive only because we support them to an "unnatural" degree. However, this does not make use weaker as a species. Instead it is an indication of our health, or rather the health of our habitat and the breadth of habitat we can survive in. If a stressor hits our planet many of these mutations may become an obstruction to procreation and be removed or reduced in the gene pool. However, the greater variability gives us the chance of a random mutation or series of mutations which may grant the species survival.

We have not sidestepped evolution. Rather than being forced to change, we are gaining ever greater variability. It's still evolution, just a different stage.