Make sure you stay in your seat when watching The Avengers not just once but twice for extra scenes. We’ve become accustomed to this Marvel universe whetting our appetite for another film and this one continues the tradition in a somewhat confusing way. It’s a bit premature to tell you exactly what was in the first bit because it’s still opening weekend. I can say that we are given a glimpse of a big bad that makes room for many levels of speculation.

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Artist's concept of an aircraft that could enter service in 2025 from the team led by The Boeing Company. Image credit: NASA/The Boeing Company

There is some disagreement between the parts of my brain that control “logical thought” and “WordPress Plugins for Facebook’s Open Graph.” The concept itself is simple enough but it’s hard for me to test without really annoying the hell out of people by sending out post after post of things that don’t matter. In that spirit, here is a picture of concept planes that appeared at http://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/flight_2025.html back in January of 2011.

It’s a pretty picture if nothing else.