I wonder if people who play with these things a lot, are going to turn their head more in real life as well. If you've been forced for several hours to turn your head instead of moving your eyes, you may keep that habit when going out for a walk afterwards.

The summary just says it broke its own space endurance record.

But it gets better: tomorrow, it's going to break its own space endurance record again!

Or it shoots black holes at them.

It's probably just a publicity stunt for the 50 year anniversary of It's a Small World.

Yeah, whenever it's cloudy, it gets unbearably hot here. I can't wait for the sun to come out so things can cool down a bit.

You just get it from the Hawking radiation. There's a bit of math involved and we aren't quite capable of actually doing it yet right now, but if you just wait in the vicinity of the black hole, mankind will figure it out for you in no time at all.

And why exactly is it so impossible for matter to become an indistinguishable state? Why can't entropy go down in such extreme conditions? Sure, all our experiments in relatively low gravity seemed to conserve "information", but what gives us the right to extrapolate that to black holes?

It's not like the second law of thermodynamics is really a law anyway. It just says that normally, entropy is so unlikely to decrease spontaneously that, for all intents and purposes, we may safely assume it never does. As long as the system is big enough, because violations of this "law" are already causing trouble in nanotechnology. If only a few atoms are involved, nothing keeps the entropy of the system from decreasing every now and then. But for large enough collections of atoms, sure, they are very unlikely to suddenly organise themselves, temperature difference are very unlikely to evolve the "wrong" way, etcetera. In the kind of conditions we have been able to observe so far.

But black holes... I can readily imagine them destroying information, in fact it seems extremely likely to me that they do, from an intuitive point of view. So why are scientists having such a big problem with that? Sure, entropy always increases in sufficiently large "normal" systems but black holes are anything but normal. I really don't see any compelling reason for them to conserve entropy.

Probably a lot like a whale or a pot of petunias would in the same situation.

No, in that same video, an expert explained, "a small black hole would have swallowed up our entire universe, so we know it's not that". Thank god we have experts to clarify issues like that.

You know, I was sceptical at first, but now I can see a great future for glass. Millions of people will buy them once those apps come out!

There was a time when people using mobile phones in the street were mugged not because the thief wanted their phone, but because people using mobile phones were considered to be antisocial snobs and deserved to get beaten up. People would sometimes just take the phone and throw it onto the floor to break it. Nowadays using a cell phone is the most normal thing in the world. When you were making a call using an earpiece, people used to wonder why you were talking to yourself while nowadays, when you really are talking to yourself, people will just assume you're making a phone call. The same will happen to glass.

How do you print a fully assembled item like that without the parts sticking together? Does it use some kind of dissolvable substance between the parts that is washed away afterwards?

We might use some system that lets most of the sun's rays pass through but that blocks the infrared from getting back out. You know, like a greenhouse. Maybe we could produce some kind of gas that has these properties?

You mean Australians have terrorists as pets and in zoos?

Just have a factory stamp out your backups then.