Er, no. Magellan was killed and eaten by natives a little over half-way around.

If you guys donated your tinfoil hats to the cause, at least the effects of radiation exposure on the trip to Mars could be minimised.

As someone who has been here pretty much from day one, I can tell you that Slashdot has always been a neckbeard circlejerk. However, it does seem it has got even worse since Taco left.

There's also failure, but in this instance failure wasn't an option.

Your post can be read in two completely opposite ways, depending on whether "murdering" is seen as a verb or an adjective there. I nearly wrote a long, angry rant before I realised this.

Oh, hi, Mr. True Scotsman...

Well, the experiments in the simulated room would eventually hit the granularity of the simulation, bumping against the smallest units the simulation is set up to deal with, such as the smallest unit of length and... Oh, fuck.

Yeah, who needs mathematics and other weird and upsetting sciencey stuff when you have gut feelings and good horse-sense?

Would have been an awesome decade to be a computer scientist.

Specially for the facial hair...

Dan Lyons is a fucking cunt, and anything he says in the defense of Scott Thompson is by definition a further indictment.

What we know about the likelihood of life elsewhere in the Universe amounts to precisely fuck-all, since our current sample size is exactly one. That's not exactly rocket surgery. So, while technically correct, this "analysis" has probably more to do with riling the nerds for LOLs than any serious or enlightening purpose.

"We fucked up royally" needed further clarification or elaboration.

Finland also. Works well.

How do you know if someone has read Schopenhauer? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

Except that if you bother to watch the clip in question, the 2001 tablets show no sign of being a touchscreen device and have a clear row of keys at the bottom. That's just Samsung either clutching at straws or taking us for imbeciles.