Oh, great. They’re gonna make another Transformers movie.

Huzzah.

Get ready for more Transformers[*].

Paramount Pictures has made a blind script commitment to develop a new feature based on the popular Hasbro brand.

*I would prefer not to.

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Tweet of the previous day: Astronomy and cosmic horror.

Hard to find a bit of this that I can excerpt from this (“Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found“), but I’ll try:

A reporter raised his hand tentatively. Travers stabbed her cigarette in his direction. “Wouldn’t you say,” he asked, “or rather couldn’t you say the fact that the universe is so massive and so unique and we’re learning so many new things every day is as fascinating and thrilling and scientifically significant as discovering life on planets other than our own?”

“Every day, I look at graves through a telescope,” Travers said. “Every day I study the stillbirths of the universe. We are a tiny pinprick of life in a sea of death, and it will swallow us all.”

“It will swallow us all,” the team chanted together.

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