I haven't watched FNL yet -- after Nip/Tuck for me.

Speaking of freaky scientific speculation -- if there aren't parallel universes now, maybe we could make some:

One day (far off, no doubt), it may be possible to go into a laboratory on Earth, create a "seed" -- a device that could grow into a universe -- and then there would have to be a way to get that seed, on command, to safely expand into a separate, infinite, unexplorable but very real alternate universe.

The seed, he suggests, could be a black hole. Not the big black holes that sit near the centers of so many galaxies, but what he calls a "mini black hole." Black holes, he says, don't have to be big. They can, in theory, be very small.

Greene also describes a kind of energy, called a "repulsive force," that might be capable of turning that seed into a new universe. The problem is, no one is yet sure how this force works or why. But Eduardo Guendelman, a physicist at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel, and Nobuyuki Sakai and his team at Yamagata University in Japan are working on the problem right now.

if there aren't parallel universes now, maybe we could make some:

Thanks, but I'm already freaked out enough by CLOAKING DEVICE IN THE NEXT BUILDING OVER at work. Because everyone knows that where there are cloaking devices, there are Romulans.

Yeah, but anyone cloaked using our primitive Earth cloaking technology wouldn't be able to see out, so they'd be given away by the way they keep bumping into the furniture.

Okay, for the record, I'd be very uncomfortable with the creation of an alternate universe anywhere near this solar system.

I mean, yes it's called an alternate universe for a reason, but it's also called a BIG BANG for a reason, and I'd prefer to not be anywhere near one, even if I'm in the next universe over.

they'd be given away by the way they keep bumping into the furniture.

Rats! They're on to me!

To date, nothing science has found has talked me out of theism.

I don't see how science could ever disprove theism. If there is a creator science would just be about how the creation works.

Watching last Thursday's CSI. Did they actually think Daltrey was so well disguised you wouldn't see from the beginning it was all the same guy, or is there some other twist yet to come?

That first thing, Brenda.

Also, apropos of nothing, Nutty knocked Zapp Brannigan out of my tag, thus cruelly dashing any hopes of a permanent Futurama tag majority.