I don't know about that "visible from space" thing. Sure, anything is visible from space if you have a powerful enough lens, but even the Great Wall of China isn't visible from space to the naked eye, and even zooming out a little bit on the map shows how small it really is...

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Numa numa

Well, there are things that make phasers superior, such as different settings (stun, kill, vaporize) much more ammo (not sure if you'd call it limitless, but I've never seen them need to recharge one), and presumably lighter and more compact than carrying guns with real bullets around. Although I tend to agree that speed is a major component of most weapons, and they've certainly done something wrong by making them so much slower.

My physics (and Mass Effect) is a bit rusty, but I had assumed that the element zero in the weapon causes the "grain of sand" to have an increased mass, thus an increased momentum (p=mv) , thus making it harder to affect by wind and more damaging than it might otherwise be (at the normal mass of a grain of sand).

And if they decide to just go to a landfill, "catch" a bunch of plastic, then turn it in for profit?

How has nobody commented on the transparent-aluminum-like properties of this so-called "glass"?

I see a correlation between the 20% of friends and 80% success rate. So all they have to do is gather data from 0% of friends, and they're 100% likely to guess the user's info!

I'm rather fond of this bit of ignorance:

The certificate is the latest to target a weakness that causes browsers, email clients, and other SSL-enabled apps to ignore all text following the \ and 0 characters

I have to agree. I always used to apply logical operations on sematic operands (and don't tell me you've never done it: Do you want to wear pants or shorts? Yes!)

This only gets more annoying as other people listen to you over time! Natural Language Processing lets you still answer the question correctly while not pissing of your spouse.

I don't know what's going on with that website. It vaguely reminds me of Zombo.com. There's nothing there, but it's some damned fine nothing.

It's funny, cuz it really doesn't. Not in Russia anyway.

And while I'm at it, what do you need to start a bonfire? Kindling. Ii bet you can guess where that's going.

Isn't it obvious? eSilly Putty.

Which is exactly what he's saying he doesn't like.