Sounds more like it was the lapsed optimists. What is Stockdale's first quote, if not optimistic?

How do you "confuse" those two things?

Not really sure what life lesson I'm supposed to take away from this - stay optimistic, just don't set a deadline for it so you're never actually disappointed? If you get sent to a POW camp, don't think "I'll be out by next week," think "I'll be out before I die," because then if you are, great, and if you aren't, you won't know about it?

Firefly first, Serenity later.

No, I cry - well, no, just say, really - "why?"

That's okay, plenty more on eBay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/48K-...

I'm lactose intolerant, you insensitive clod!

No it hasn't.

(this comment for readers who can't identify hyperbole)

How long would it take you to drive 135,908 feet?

How long would it take you to drive 25 miles?

I'd say the latter is easier to guess at than the former.

toxic
adjective
1.
of, pertaining to, affected with, or caused by a toxin or poison:
a toxic condition.
2.
acting as or having the effect of a poison; poisonous:
a toxic drug.

poison
noun
1.
a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.

At least his shtick is on a different topic each time.

Dude, spoiler alert. Not cool!

Now that's a way to get more Slashdot readers reading your posts.

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Well they can't have my smart tank. They can build their own!

Now that's a headline.

My hunch is that opposing gravitational forces don't add up in that way when you're talking about forces so strong that light is too slow to escape them, or that for another object to influence the gravity of the black hole that much, it would itself have to be either so close as to be within the event horizon, or so dense as to have an event horizon of its own which overlaps the first.

If you wanted to people to know you were kidding, you'd have to make it at least 300% more dumberer than that!