The second point is not really relevant, given that the thought experiment is about our ability to detect something that was invading us. If they are invading us, then they have found us.

So you now have to explain 2 discrepancies in technology. 1) They are sufficiently advanced to have found us. 2) They are sufficiently advanced to get to us.

The more you add to the list of things they would have to have in order to invade us, the less and less likely they are missing the things required to eliminate us undetected. For example, you would have a hard time explaining how they can move their fleet across the vast void of space, but can't move a sufficient number of asteroids from an asteroid belt to populous locations on Earth's surface.

This is why I dislike most alien invasion movies.

Some more information would be useful. I'm going to guess that she spoke into the device and auto-detect picked up Swahili.

Yes, you were joking, however, it made a number of shocking omissions in the few minutes it actually did run. It was as if, realising they had nil for a SFX budget, they decided that Lews Therin did himself in with a knife instead of overdrawing on the source and creating Dragonmount. Also, there was no rippling of floors and walls in after-shock from him using the power to murder his entire family.

The other bits weren't that bad though. No, wait, they were. They got Ilyena "Sunhair"'s hair colour wrong.

I don't like to quote something possibly over-used, but "Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

To adequately prove psychopaths don't thrive in a primarily psychopathic society, we'd have to run several experiments where varying groups of people try to form a society with a range of ratios between normal and psychopathic people.

I'd hate to be the one normal guy in that group!

I could do the research, just the same as you could. I won't, though. However I will tell you, as I use the Chrome addon Hola to gain access to the US Netflix here in Ireland, that it is not available in Ireland without it.

True.

The same is said of AIDS. People don't die of AIDS, they die because their immune system is so compromised that the flu kills them or something else.

I agree that there are things that kill you easier when you are older than when younger, but there are a lot of things totally unrelated to age that are already killing us, things like an unhealthy lifestyle leading to obesity and diabetes. You'll probably agree that there are very few fat old people (like _really_ old).

While there's a lower risk of heart disease in younger people, this might likely be because they just haven't had enough time to do the full amount of damage required to finally cause it to fail.

So we should see (purely for the sake of argument) what causes of death are due to an otherwise healthy body being old, and what causes of death are due to an accumulation of time doing something that may kill you.

Sorry about the miscalculation above, I did napkin maths based on room temp in Celsius ... So yeah, sorry.

Shit, I realised I forgot to convert to Kelvin in my thought experiment.

A 2 PSI drop as noted in one of the balls, labelled as worst case, is only a difference of 3.36 degrees Celsius. This could easily happen due to the compressor heating up as it pumped multiple balls.

If they were all pumped up with the same piece of equipment then it is possible that there was a upward trend in temperature as they inflated each ball. If, as time goes by, the compressor used to pump the balls heated up, then the first balls would have been fine, while the last balls would have ended up deflated to the largest degree. All that has to happen is for the Patriots to have gotten the first 1/2 of the balls and the Colts the second half.

If the Colts balls ranged from "Fine" - "a 'tic' below 12.5 psi" - "a few 1 psi under the limit" - "one that was 2 psi under the limit" it reinforces my belief that the air could have been getting hotter as pumping progressed.

The question is, how hot would the air inside the ball have to have been for there to be a 2 psi loss. The pressure drop from 12.5 psi to 10.5 psi equates to a drop of 3.36 degrees Celsius. It is entirely possible for this to happen over the course of pumping a number of balls with a compressor that doesn't maintain constant temperature.

Have you got a citation for "number one killer of humans"?

How many people as a % actual die due to old age and not cardiac diseases, cancer and car crashes?

While I do think it would be great to have actual anti ageing, is it actually a major cause of death?

The Interview is available to stream on Netflix, yet still made the top 4.

What is the security risk posed by small drones?
In your explanation please include "Drones are better than mortars at delivering explosives because..." and "Drones are better than high power telescopes because..."

I asked a friend who works in Google when Dublin would get Google Fiber (given that they have headquarters there). He said since there were already at least 3 companies providing it (Eircom, Vodafone and UPC) among the many wireless 4G options, there's no need for Google to do the same.

Much of the US has either nobody, or a monopoly providing Fiber, so they are picking the areas where they will have the greatest impact.

Half-Life 300 confirmed.