Without spoiling anything I have to say that this was absolutely my favorite film of 2016. Better than The Force Awakens, better than Zootopia, better than Civil War, better than anything I've seen this year (In my opinion, of course). The animation absolutely blew me away, I can't imagine what goes on behind the scenes to allow for water to look that realistic. The songs were great, too. Hopefully "How Far I'll Go" will replace "Let it Go" as the main song that kids won't shut up about, I'd take that over any of the songs from Frozen any day.

Ended up seeing it by myself because none of my friends wanted to see it, but I'm definitely glad I went. I can't say that it was the most innovating thing I've ever seen in terms of story or character development, but it's certainly up there with my favorite Disney films right now.

Has anybody else seen it? I'm not the biggest fan of horror movies, but this one was honestly amazing in every way. It was terrifying, but it had a good story, great characters, and I actually felt invested in what was going on. I never saw the first one, but now that I know how good this was and considering people speak even higher about the original, I definitely want to see it.

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The beginning is absolutely horrible, but holy shit, I can't believe how far he came because of treatment.

Medical science is fucking amazing.

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The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.

The claim is the strongest yet in the centuries-long search for a “Planet X” beyond Neptune. The quest has been plagued by far-fetched claims and even outright quackery. But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations. “If you say, ‘We have evidence for Planet X,’ almost any astronomer will say, ‘This again? These guys are clearly crazy.’ I would, too,” Brown says. “Why is this different? This is different because this time we’re right.”

Outside scientists say their calculations stack up and express a mixture of caution and excitement about the result. “I could not imagine a bigger deal if—and of course that’s a boldface ‘if’—if it turns out to be right,” says Gregory Laughlin, a planetary scientist at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz. “What’s thrilling about it is [the planet] is detectable.”

Batygin and Brown inferred its presence from the peculiar clustering of six previously known objects that orbit beyond Neptune. They say there’s only a 0.007% chance, or about one in 15,000, that the clustering could be a coincidence. Instead, they say, a planet with the mass of 10 Earths has shepherded the six objects into their strange elliptical orbits, tilted out of the plane of the solar system.

The orbit of the inferred planet is similarly tilted, as well as stretched to distances that will explode previous conceptions of the solar system. Its closest approach to the sun is seven times farther than Neptune, or 200 astronomical units (AUs). (An AU is the distance between Earth and the sun, about 150 million kilometers.) And Planet X could roam as far as 600 to 1200 AU, well beyond the Kuiper belt, the region of small icy worlds that begins at Neptune’s edge about 30 AU.

If Planet X is out there, Brown and Batygin say, astronomers ought to find more objects in telltale orbits, shaped by the pull of the hidden giant. But Brown knows that no one will really believe in the discovery until Planet X itself appears within a telescope viewfinder. “Until there’s a direct detection, it’s a hypothesis—even a potentially very good hypothesis,” he says. The team has time on the one large telescope in Hawaii that is suited for the search, and they hope other astronomers will join in the hunt.

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For me, I can't decide between Inside Out, The Incredibles, and Toy Story 2.

It's always something that I like to think about, because I'll admit it, I tend to laugh and make jokes about some pretty terrible things. I never actually feel like those events or tragedies are funny in nature, but the idea of actually making humor out of something so terrible is, from what I've observed, what makes those jokes funny. In other words, "Politically incorrect" jokes aren't funny because (Most) people find them to be true, they're funny because it's such a terrible thing to make humor out of, that some of us can't help but laugh at how ridiculous the context of the joke was.

Do you have a sort of mental system where you gauge if a joke is okay to make? What do you think is acceptable to make jokes about? What isn't? Is it a matter of context, who you're speaking to, or some other mix of things that makes a joke "Okay," or "Not okay?"

It's my Freshman year in college, not even two weeks in, and I've already become fascinated with energy conservation and environmental preservation because of a course I'm taking called "21st Century Living Solutions." Only a few classes down, but we've already discussed so much, and the readings/videos we've been assigned to asses are incredibly interesting; they really put into perspective the ease with which people can make lasting contributions to making life and technology more sustainable. It got me thinking about how many things I could do to start helping preserve the environment, and just live a more economically sensible, moral life.

What do you do to try to help out? What are some ways that you've tried to reduce your carbon footprint, or just to help create a better future for humanity?