User: socaire

Frank Herbert told us how to do this...

On: Dentist Wants To Clone John Lennon Using DNA Extracted From Lennon's Tooth

I say we make a Ghola. It's quite simple:

1. Clone John from the tooths DNA.
2. Let him grow to desired age.
3. Awake his original memories by making him endure a terrible psychological trauma. Showing him a current pic of Yoko might do the trick.

Menzoberranzan

On: Lab Rats Given "Sixth Sense"

I'd like infravision, I could go live in the underdark. All bow to Lolth!.

It's obvious that he bought the reactionless drive

On: China's Radical New Space Drive

I wonder how many stars they charged to that British engineer for it.

Nibbles and Gorilla

On: Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me?

Anyone remembers Nibbles and Gorilla in MS-DOS basic? Being a kid and seeing the code of the game was like seeing magic I just couldn't believe. I remember playing Prince of Persia on my old yellow Hecules monitor, what days.

Re:Wrong

On: Students Calculate What Hyperspace Travel Would Actually Look Like

On Larry Niven books (Ringworlds, etc) when traveling in hyperspace you literally see nothing, I don't mean nothing as in a vacuum, but nothing at all. The mind could not handle it and people went mad when looking through the windows.

Obligatory xckd

On: The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust

Fastest growing can be misleading: https://xkcd.com/1102/