I have heard a suggestion that they had some sort of poison that reacts differently when someone is anxious vs calm. Think of it like a polygraph test with potential physical consequences. It could well have had better than chance odds of affecting the guilty (anxious) more than the innocent (calm). And no doubt the priests could have helped with that, by telling them "don't worry, God knows" and all the ceremony. Of course, this is all speculation as no one knows exactly what the stuff was. And being "better than chance" isn't even saying much.

Most Christians recognize that Christ fulfilled the part of the Mosaic Law that they don't like and it no longer applies to them. The parts they do like still apply to everyone.

Odds are, because the Muslims would be upset if a bunch of Jews went and replaced one of their favorite mosques with a Jewish temple, so that they could make sacrifices. And then they still need to get a consecrated priest, which is much harder to do if you can't find another consecrated priest to consecrate them, and don't remember who Aaron's sons are. So of course ultra-strict Jews aren't making sacrifices. If they were making imperfect sacrifices, they would not be ultra-strict (and would probably be heretics).

On the other hand, if this reactor works well it would be an even better rocket engine than a nuclear engine (at least once you get it into space). Hard to beat the exhaust velocity of fusion plasma.

Call me a luddite, but I still use the traditional method. I can't see why any self-respecting Christian would turn to this technology when the answer is right there in the Bible!

Of course not. When someone is bragging/hyping, when they miss an obvious opportunity it suggests said opportunity doesn't exist. It'll be some "who knows" company, not a famous one like Tesla.

It probably doesn't help that most programmers are male. And so when making a game (of their own initiative) would make a game that appeals to them. Of course this is changing now, but it is not surprise that it started skewed and it will be no surprise when it remains skewed for quite a while.

There's no datacenters powered by fusion reactors. And the fission reactors split apart heavy elements, not primordial elements. Though I imagine there are plenty of datacenters in France, powered by long-gone supernovas rather than the Sun. Everything else is just indirectly solar-powered, like you said.

I think you misunderstood. People were telling you that you are a big dick, not that you have a big dick. Same thing when they called you a massive tool. You'd probably have understood the metaphorical meanings if you weren't so dense.

What, do you think that in case of a failure the captain nosedives the plane straight for the ground at Mach 3? No, they try to land as gently as possible. According to the allmighty google, 95.7% of people involved in an airplane crash survive (down to 76% for the more serious accidents).

I bet if one of these bite you, you'll end up with the fussy diet of a goat, and the brains of a spider.

Basically, indistinguishable from your average American.

We get buzzed by a giant meteor. The meteor passes close enough to do some damage, or a fragment of it hits us. Calculations show it will be back in a decade, at which point we go visit the dinosaurs. OK, so that might be a very specific catastrophe, but I bet it would get us into space like nothing else.

The weak link in Tor security has always been its users.

A little while after we get off our lazy asses and get going into space. Consider how quickly we'd get to space if there was a sufficiently large global catastrophe, even though such catastrophe would destroy many of our resources. As it is, the primary limitation of going to space is that people don't sufficiently want it to happen.

Except that is only true for private spam filters. In the case of public email accounts, the spammer can just sign up for the account and send himself test emails. Sure it takes a bit of extra work for them, but I think the big thing is that Gmail is missing out on the possibility of improving their email service by ensuring senders of the occasional spammy looking but important email, know it hasn't been delivered and can try alternate means of contacting you. I don't think it would significantly increase the amount of spam that gets through, but it would definitely lower the rate of false positives. After all, if you have to check your spam folder on occasion, what did you really gain by having one?

If you did this to me, I would make a script to subscribe your email address to every mailing list ever. Not that I'm in the habit of putting other people's email address as my own, but if you aren't a decent person keep in mind that others can be mean SOBs as well.

I also occasionally receive someone else's mail, but it is mostly his friends who forget to put the extra number at the end (yay early adapter!).