Feh. I'll take you down with tow cables fired from my Bagger 288.

SFW: Rule 34 in action.

No no no, it's a typo for "meteors," and "Phillip J" at Yahoo says the mean of meteors is about the size of a grain of sand, so grain of sand x 50. Pretty small. I think.

Maybe the submitter just displays complex/rippled grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Cobain actually varied the spelling of his name off and on to mess with people, "Curt" is found in some autographs.

"Mike Cameron, brother to James, is a super-smart aerospace engineer. He came up with a way to film at 12,600 feet underwater, and JPL wants to use the technology to explore one of the moons of Jupiter."

Oh great, haven't they read the memo about attempting no landings there? Now those aliens are going to get all monolith on our asses.

"swan-upping
The annual practice of catching the swans on the River Thames and marking them to indicate their ownership."

Thought that was perhaps akin to cow tipping at first...

Having Ted back, that would be awesome. "The Internet isn't a truck, it's a series of
BRAIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSS!"

Well, a person from Alaska controlled my mind for a while back in 2008, not that I was swayed over to her cause. But it was definitely on my mind for months at a stretch. "You've got to be kidding. From a helicopter?"

Ozzy's longevity you can chalk up to his Neanderthal lineage.

As for why the Empire subsequently declined, here's a handy list: 210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire. No concrete in there, the Republic being brought to an end by overzealous monument building would be covered by "Hubris" though, I suppose.

I've been using the same 16GB iPod Nano for 4 years now. There are aspects of the UI I'd change perhaps but it just refuses to quit.

I prefer the original Radar Ranges. Why, you could cook a whole turkey with those buggers! Sometimes inadvertently, too.

Actually it's a warts-and-all trip down memory lane: Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940. Lots of warts to put it mildly, dumping the tanker is just one that sticks out in my mind. Oil companies used to overdrill fields as a matter of course, another memorable photo is of a couple of cottages separated by only 20 feet or so, with a derrick in between them.

An incident in the book Early California Oil comes to mind here: after a sale of an oil tanker truck the two parties realized they weren't sure what to do with the contents of the truck - the buyer had no use for the oil. The seller thus simply emptied all the oil onto the street! The Wilmington oil field is also the poster child for oil extraction causing massive ground subsidence. Regulations were more than a bit lax back when. Occasionally people in SOCAL have to deal with this legacy - there was an explosion in a store in the 80s caused by a gas leak from a shoddy drilling operation, for instance. But generally things run relatively smoothly.

You have uncastrated male sheep in your computer? That must have taken some doing. Or is it a big ass computer with lots of room inside like those old Crays?