Very carefully.

What's more, there are some apparently void elements in the circuit, but still the circuit stops working when these elements are removed.

Sounds like the textbook definition of the GP's, "[...] this bio-inspired stuff cannot easily be improved incrementally from seeing how it performs in practice.". I think that being able to improve things in that way is important, too, since these kinds of evolutionary processes are like rolling a ball down a hill to find the lowest point; it's good at finding the local minimum, but you don't know if you've found the best solution globally.

Perhaps the parent is referring to the information disclosed in this article: 9/11 Was 'Zero Day' in Intercepted Warning

It sucks enough hearing your doctor say you're going to die, but to hear it on the worldwide news? Damn.

I'll also bet that all the truck thieves in Mexico is getting a call from their mothers today, worried sick, wanting to know if they're OK.

The Moon is rather big, and therefore would take an enormous amount of energy to de-orbit or destroy it. If we ever get to the point, technologically, where we could do something like that then you'd have to be equally worried about that same catastrophe happening on Earth and ruining everything down here.

Well, you could always blink, or just close your eyes.

What's the point of not being killed by hunger, when you get killed by an asteroid?

Obligatory Kurt Vonnegut story: Harrison Bergeron

So are you saying you don't understand that drugs cost huge amounts of money to research, develop, test, and approve?

You should go to Wiki and look up the Fallacy of Sunk Costs.

You should go to the Wiki and look up "Why the fuck would they bother investing money in all that to begin with if they plan to exsanguinate themselves by operating at a loss from the start". The sunk cost fallacy means "Don't throw good money after bad", not "Throw your money in the garbage plan because you'll never make anything out of it anyway".

Yeah, but Pioneer 11 doesn't really count towards the whole "this is how the universe will remember us" thing, since the Klingons are going to use it for target practice at the beginning of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

Do we really have to get an exact 50/50 gender split in every discipline before people will stop banging on about it?

No, only the ones where men outnumber women. Nobody seems to be interested in getting boys into nursing, for example.

First they clone Lennon. Then they clone Stallon.

Clone Sylvester Stallone? We can keep making new Rocky and Rambo movies forever!

I think it's an apt comparison. They were both jerks, they both got more credit than they deserved for things they didn't actually create, and they were both obsessed with destroying a competing product in a far-too-personal manner.

From what I understand methane is a more efficient greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so if one believes that the methane is going to enter the atmosphere anyway then it would make sense to convert as much of it it to carbon dioxide first, with the obvious benefit of energy extraction.

I'm here to build nuclear power plants and chew bubblegum... and I'm all out of patience for the plant construction licensing process.