Virtue?

The bank is going to round that pi up.

It'll be more like a pie.

It's going to work out fine until Deep Space Industries starts forming an Alliance.

Then Mal is going to flip the fuck out.

What's the worst that could happen? Another failed startup?

What's the best that could happen? A mitigating effort towards Earth's looming resource problems?

However shitty the odds of the latter happening, consequences of both are staggeringly different.
DON'T PANIC

Use of hyperbole and sarcasm for driving a point home is what the post an example of.

And yes, I know that sounds like Yoda.

It's free. Just delete your facebook profile.

Next up: Want to say something against the current establishment in your daily status updates? Just pay $1.59* and exercise your right to free speech!

*A small fee to cover the overhead to Facebook, Inc. for licking your local congressman's ass to compensate for your brazen use of the First Amendment.

Hey, what about us drones, man?

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Or should it be Virii?

Who from?

Not like it's working anyway..

We would have achieved a global balance of economy, borders and hopefully even politics. Maybe we'd even be ready for space colonization as a result! So what you say, is actually a very good scenario for the 21st century.

This is now turning into a 3rd grade playground battle of calling each other names. The difference is that the whole world has to listen to them bicker over petty disputes.

Want them to stop with the trivialities? Stop paying attention. Ask a parent how that works...

I am not qualified to comment on the accuracy of the findings and their subsequent interpretation of the data. However, as the senior scientist Giovanni Amelino-Camelia suggested, "But the claim that their analysis is proving that space-time is 'smooth with Planck-scale accuracy' is rather naive." (He was the first one to theoretically suggest methods with which one could test for the "discreteness" of space-time)

Is it the artifact of the social media/e-news and the ever growing need for public attention to science (which translates into the elusive funding dollars), that lately a lot of discoveries are being touted as "physics defying", "life altering" etc before they are scrutinized thoroughly? We've already had a faster-than-light and a second-law-of-thermodynamics-broken debacle, and who knows how many more (scour the arXivs and you shall find!). A lot of the stories of scientific discoveries diffuse out of public interest fast, especially now that people are cynical about groundbreaking claims. I wonder if we need to make a conscious effort to not make a big deal out of every discovery, at least not before the data is converted to valuable information. Although, I see the catch-22 here, as the scientific community is trying to break the stereotype of "hard, cold truths presented in a bleak technical manner" or "how does that even remotely affect me", to appease their indirect, impatient employers: the public.

Let's make a celebrity out of this guy with hair a little out of the ordinary, while the rest of the team, who worked just as hard, goes unnoticed and under-appreciated. Also, let's praise this guy so much that the only thing he has to be thankful about is his decision to get a mohawk, and not his engineering degree.

Gert van Dijk....Yes, that could be the name of my next indie band exploring the tenets of post-modernist sexuality.