From Red Dwarf "Marooned"

Hilly: Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them? . How can you manage to miss five black holes?
Hilly: It's always the way, innit? You hang around for three million years in deep space and there hasn't been one, then all of a sudden five turn up at once.

I seem to recall reading an article about this 10-15 years ago, in which they had an 8x8 array of sensors that were directly stimulating areas in the visual cortext. Fully blind patients were able to correctly identify a number of shapes.

However, if I recall correctly, the nerves' responsiveness to the unnatural direct electrical stimulation wore off quite quickly, and the assessment at the end was that the electrical/neuronal coupling was going to be the main problem to overcome.

Isn't the Montana State Slogan "At least our cows are sane" ?

I'm pretty sure the standard for exploding vehicles is the Ford Pinto.

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Pinto.htm

Spadefoot

http://www.centre.edu/web/news/2009/brian_storz.html

In Canada, we refer to them as the Bloc Quebecois.

If you no longer believe in this technology, then you obviously suck.... because you're now an ex tractor fan.

I have empirical evidence that you don't need to be famous to do this... Given a large burrito, I too can "produce complex organic compounds and eject them into space, filling the regions between stars".

And you'll sometimes find that tropical libations are served with cute little umbrellas.

I'm reminded of an old vet friend telling us about the "$4.95 budgie cure". When some tearful kid would come in holding a stone cold bird, the vet would quietly nip out the back door to the k-mart next door and buy another bargin budgie, and give it to the overjoyed child saying "Polly's cured!" and present the knowing parents with a bill for $4.95. If the child ever noticed the feather coloration or size was a bit off, then the vet would simply say "Oh, that's just a side effect of the medication".

So now you're telling me that the cloned cat CC did not really look like its genetic donor because of "protein activation times"? The cloning process that was used didn't cost $4.95, by any chance, did it?