I'm 222 years old and as far as I'm concerned Ceres is still a planet.

I'm 4,000 years old, and as far as I'm concerned, Earth is still flat. You newfangled roundies have it all wrong. You are projecting your own image onto earth, you sedentary belly blobs.

How many library-of-congress's is two far's?

Maybe humans memorize patterns of play (responses) that win then. If the computer cannot "look" far ahead in Go, than neither can people, most likely. What exactly is "strategy" that is different from predicting ahead and/or learning successful patterns?

Go atse?

Shouldn't we wait until the probe actually arrives and gets details before speculating?

There are bright spots on Ganymede (Jupiter moon) that are probably from meteors smashing into its icy surface.

Even our moon has Tycho crater which is surrounded with bright dust due to the recency of the impact. (Radiation tends to darken soil and rocks over time.) Volcano claims are premature.

Well, I outsourced my Donkey Kong playing before bots took it over, so there!

Remember, the alternatives suck also. The recent revelations are that most if not all countries are dirty liars when it comes to spying.

The Onion is not fake, they are just ahead of reality. They predicted:

- RIAA sues radio stations for playing free music

- Gillette creates 5-blade razor

- Neil Armstrong's widow cleans out closet of "space crap" (finds museum gems)

- Joe The Plumber ("dude" pundit)

- Charlie Sheen going violent

- Newly elected Bush announcing era of peace and prosperity is over (911, Iraq, mortgage crash)

- Ann Coulter saying radiation good for you. (Oh wait, Onion missed that one.)

It's good to know that USA does not have a monopoly on anti-science whackjob politicians.

Maybe we can swap politicians to keep 'em fresh: We'll trade you 2 witches and a faith healer for 2 astrologers and a Stonehenge cultist.

You need nova insurance if your Pinto gets it in the rear.

Guys always wanted robots that can fetch a beer from the fridge. The "beer test" is more popular than the Turing Test.

Removing that feature is like removing flying from a flying car.

I have supernova insurance

Let me clarify. Usually there's a list of skills an employer wants and the chance of anybody's background matching perfectly is astronomic. There will be some from that list that require learning new tool sets.

If a citizen matches 3 of 6 and the visa candidate matches 4 or 6, is that really a "shortage of techies"? Of course we all want exactly what we want. But there are societal consequences of letting co's be prima-donna's.

Actually, that quote would probably come form the gerbil's description of Rich. Rich apparently had the opposite view.

There must be a million jokes to be made with that title.