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  1. Re:Too bad about evolution on Interviews: Forrest Mims Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Just because Issac Newton was an alchemist and a kabalist doesn't make his cookies taste any less good.

  2. hmmmm, seems familiar.... on Musk Will Open Up Tesla Supercharger Patents To Spur Development · · Score: 1

    A cynical PR ploy would be GM doing live demonstrations electrocuting stray dogs and rogue elephants to warn the public to the dangers of Tesla superchargers.

  3. Re:College on Lose Sleep, Fail To Form Memory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I always thought 36-hour shifts in medical internship was stupidly counter-productive.

  4. you wouldn't throw away a car after one use... on SpaceX Landing Video Cleanup Making Progress · · Score: 2

    Somebody needs to throw together one of those X-Files "I WANT TO BELIEVE" parody posters with a fuzzy Falcon 9 1st stage coming down for a fiery landing exactly as described by Ezekiel.

  5. I WANT TO BELIEVE on SpaceX Landing Video Cleanup Making Progress · · Score: 2

    It still looks like it was filmed with a Logitech potato.

  6. ask Bill S. Preston, Esq. about Station. on Geophysicists Discover How Rocks Produce Magnetic Pulses · · Score: 1

    Jim Berkland used to monitor the classified ads in the newspaper for trends in missing pets. Back when there were newspapers, and they had classified ads.

    And TT Brown had done some interesting research into geologic piezoelectricy, although Wikipedia only talks about his anti gravity research.

  7. they tricked me! on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alibaba lied when they sold me my ePhone!

  8. Re:Laser, Atomic Bomb, on Optical Levitation, Space Travel, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity · · Score: 1

    Bucky-ball enema moon tube escalator, Jimmy-Carter-built Baba Yaga affordable housing on chicken legs and dephlogistonated Moebius Yorkshire Pudding.

    Great, you just spoiled the whole new season of Dr. Who.
    With the exception of flailing the sonic screwdriver around like a magic wand and yelling "RUN!". But those are a given with Moffat.

  9. good grief, why not wooden pixels?! on 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 1

    50" 720p plasma tv

    Fred Flinstone, is that you? How's things down at the quarry?

  10. YOU FAIL IT on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 2

    Computer - Portman, Natalie, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits

    Just steer clear of those Sirus Cybernetics 3D printers. OMG.

  11. my clones' an asshole on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    I find that Dr. McCoy's views on the safety of transporters are reasonable and founded in reality.

  12. man the 70's had great drugs... on German Scientists Successfully Test Brain-Controlled Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    It's been a few years but I don't think Philo Beddoe used a neural interface to control Clyde the orangutan.
    Maybe you're thinking of Matthew Broderick ?

  13. mathematics hates when you abuse it on The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative · · Score: 1

    "paging Rev Malthus to the white courtesy phone...
    will Rev Robert Thomas Malthus please pick up the white courtesy phone..."

  14. 50's monster movies vindicated! on The Rule of Three Proved By Physicists · · Score: 1

    So a 200-foot praying mantis is still a possibility as long as it's scaled up some power of 22.7. Got it.

  15. Re:Good luck on that... he won't appear on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 2

    Beautiful country.
    A shame about the government.

    Wait, who were we talking about again?

  16. I don't know who to root for here... on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    erm, violating Iranians' privacy...
    That's a beheadin'

    Ayatollah Japser Beardly

  17. you have mildy inconvenienced me, prepare to die! on WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    "Microsoft Tech Support" scams

    If they could just drop a few hellfire missiles on those goddamn Pakled feebs, I'd be willing to give them a little bit more slack on the leash.

  18. maybe steer clear of Princess cruises on Swiss Space Systems Announces Plan To Offer World's Cheapest Zero-G Flights · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an ideal way to transmit norovirus. Be sure to schedule a flight before going on your holiday cruise.

  19. homophobia on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 1
    d'oh, stupid homonyms!

    do k no w evil.

  20. for all you hatin' on this press release: on World's Smallest Nanomotor Could Power Cell-Sized Nanobots For Drug Delivery · · Score: 1

    nanomotors like these can be used to drive the world's smallest hurdy gurdy.

  21. worked in the old days on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Famous?
    Where do I sign?

    Google strong-arming musicians like the worst of the music industry? I dunno, sounds pretty evil to me.

  22. Dana's not here, man! on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1
  23. Re:This was tried in San Fran in 1906 on Researchers Experiment With Explosives To Fight Wildfires · · Score: 2

    Most wildfires aren't in urban areas. Unless you just had a 500-year earthquake, incendiary bombing, or Godzilla attack.

    But, as others have pointed out, this works better for oil well fires because oil won't sit and smoulder for hours, then reignite.

  24. Red Lectroids drool! on The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC · · Score: 3, Insightful

    pish, the obvious design is to dump the energy into the oscillation overthruster. That way you don't have sudden deceleration when you collide with the mountain.

  25. my theory about brontosaurs... on Americans Hate TV and Internet Providers More Than Other Industries · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know about killing the railroads.
    Seems like "big oil" is trying to blow up the railroads lately (Lac-Megantic, Lynchburg, Lasalle CO). Which would indicate that they're sending the railroads lots of business of late, with shipping oil from the Canadian tar sands and all.