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  1. Perhaps he left to attend his brother's funeral?

  2. No More Tweets! No More Tweets!

  3. Just one question on Scientists Get Closer To Replicating Human Sperm (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Are the 'Gonadal Organoids' brass? Do they come (sorry, couldn't resist) in sizes?

  4. Look on the bright side on Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 1

    "Apple Maps, on the other hand, looks empty. Like an unfurnished house."

    But at least all the rooms are easily connected.

  5. It is getting a little old on Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips (reneweconomy.com.au) · · Score: 5, Funny

    When is Musk going to stop making big promises and then following through?

    He sure is a bad politician.

  6. In other news on Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The patent office will soon be closed due to lack of new inventions

  7. It won't really be useful on Google's AI Built an AI that Outperforms Any Made By Humans (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until it can tell me what my wife really means when she yells at me

  8. Re:Personally I don't care on EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Trailer hitch & towable generator should solve the problem

  9. This is great insider info! on Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    How can I get in before everybody hears about it?

  10. Scale on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Solid carbon block has a density of about 3500 Kg/m^3, so this 810 Billion ton(ne)s would represent 232 Billion cubic meters. A patch of land 30 km square would need to be piled 258 meters high, which will keep the top above sea level even after the ice all melts.

    Alternately, every person on earth can have a 30 m^3 carbon water filter

  11. Re:List of truths the left doesn't want you to kno on Crowdfunded 'PowerWatch' Runs on Body Heat, Never Needs Charging (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    I think you forgot the air quotes around the word "truths".

    And if more people didn't "know" these "truths", the world would be a better place.

  12. Re: Wrong on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There is also a difference between clothespins and avocado. What's your point?

  13. Re:Wrong on Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry sir, you are incorrect. A 'deduction' reduces your taxable income. A credit is a direct reduction of taxes ('get back' more on your refund).

  14. Re:Math is sometime incorrect on Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Bumblebees have canards?

  15. Re:We Already Knew That the Universe Shouldn't Exi on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the negative energy balances out the equation.

  16. My philosophy on Voice Assistants Will Be Difficult To Fire (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can't fire them

    Don't hire them

  17. How much did the FBI pay for this feature?

  18. Re: It's tough to make predictions on Does Online Crowdfunding Actually Reward Innovation? (strategy-business.com) · · Score: 1

    Self fulfilling prophecy, mostly. And so far on a vastly wrong time schedule. And where are my grav boots, force fields, and warp drive?
     

  19. Re:It is ok the way it is on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    it is six times bigger than goal

  20. Re:It is ok the way it is on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    I believe you mean 'touchdown'

  21. Re:Atoms are 3D on Laser Light Forges Graphene Into the Third Dimension (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just give it time...

  22. I don't own a Nest on Meet The Next Major Operating System: Amazon's Alexa (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And I won't buy Alexa (or similar) where everything I say or do is broadcast to the world

  23. Re:This is all very interesting on Dubai Proposes Giant Simulated Mars City In the Desert (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but it will take forever...

  24. This is all very interesting on Dubai Proposes Giant Simulated Mars City In the Desert (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    But what I really want to know is... how are they reducing the gravity to match Mars'?

  25. I guess this means on Fathers Pass On Four Times As Many New Genetic Mutations As Mothers, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fathers are the mother of evolution