My mind, by contrast, goes to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Od9CmTu0 when someone says "Big O"

You beat me to it, it's called the "Biosuit". Here are some more-recent articles, including photos of Professor Dava Newman modelling the skin-tight suit.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/dava-newmans-skintight-spacesuit-could-be-nasas-future-2013-12
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/appel/ask/issues/45/45s_building_future_spacesuit.html

That's the first comment on Slashdot that I laughed at until I cried!

One of the most famous of the late Monsignor Ronald Knox's witticisms was a verse built on the Berkleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer:

There once was a man who said: "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."

This promptly drew the anonymous reply:

"Dear Sir, Your astonishment's quite odd;
I am always about in the Quad;
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by Yours Faithfully, God."

There are a few more lines at the end of that quote...

"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents" http://www.wanttoknow.info/warisaracket

Had something similar happen to me when I replied to your first post. I clicked on "Load All Comments" and then I could see my comment.

Reminds me of an execution method that I read about many years ago. The person to be put to death would have their pulse taken by a drummer while the drummer would beat a drum in-time to the victim's heartbeat. After a while, the drummer would suddenly stop beating the drum, then the victim's heart would stop too.

I believe it's already been invented, sounds very much like teledildonics

You mean something like this? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteralGenie

Three graduate engineers were discussing who might have been responsible for the design of the human body.

The first one said "Think of all the joints etc. it must have been a mechanical engineer".

The second one said "No no, what about all the electrical impulses and nerves etc? It must have been an electrical engineer".

The third graduate was shaking his head, "You are both wrong, the human body was designed by a civil engineer - who else would run a waste pipe through a recreational area"?

We got a Cocoon "TV shield" to put over our new 32-inch Sony Bravia TV. The computer monitor I am using right now still has the protective plastic sheeting taped to it that it was packaged with. My 19-inch Sharp Aquos TV has some thick plastic sheeting taped over it until I get around to putting a proper cover on it. I don't know how come, for the sake of saving the cost of a sheet of protective plastic, the manufacturers are selling products that can be ruined by a simple accident that an old-fashioned CRT TV would have just shrugged off. The people at the shop said that a lot more people were buying the protectors after the big earthquakes in Christchurch toppled and ruined their TV screens.
  http://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/tvs-dvds/tv-dvd-accessories/television-accessories/cocoon-tv-shield-for-30-32-tv-s-tvs32/prod107013.html

... and Sherlock Holmes' arch-enemy is Moriarty - a Professor of Mathematics

AltaVista was the first web searcher that I used. When Google came out I gradually switched to it because it gave me much more relevant results. I could make much more sophisticated searches using AltaVista's Boolean grammar, and it also allowed wild-cards for the ends of words. Alas, the wild-card feature did not seem to work when I tried it out again a few years ago.

There are already guns at the International Space Station. The Soyuz spaceships have a "survival gun" stored inside. http://www.jamesoberg.com/russiangun_tec.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82

In the early 1960's, General Electric was working on an emergency "bail-out" system for astronauts in low-earth orbit. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/moose.htm
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE