I don't know how they will die on Mars, but we will be watching them with a 4 to 24 minute time delay.

For some reason this makes me think of the trend in the early 90s of people creating hyperfiction, where the reader could pick the direction of the plot at certain points. That never appealed to me. Fiction should be about surprising the reader, not letting them control the narrative.

In the same way, I always like hearing a song which takes an unanticipated turn.

What happens to the Standard Model if at 13 TeV they start hearing tiny screams at each fragmentation?

I can take action to mitigate being hit by a truck by looking both ways, not texting, crossing at the green. I can minimize my chances of dying on the roads by buying a large safe car, driving defensively, wearing my seatbelt, etc. If I am in an airplane in trouble, there is nothing I can do. If an asteroid in on its way, there is nothing I can do.

He who smelled it delled it?

Hammer salesman: See that problem? That's a nail. Over there? Another nail. Got a question? Nail.

That's not a false positive. It is a positive test. It is up to the administrator of the test to decide if the result is significant to their purpose.

As the limits of detection get smaller and smaller, the chances are that I could detect one molecule of almost anything on you. So how much is legally enough to charge you?

Harvard would rather not have 1500 spots of every 1600 member freshman class be the sons and daughters of mainland Chinese billionaires, that's why.

The Big Bang Theory taught me that all smart people were pencil-necked geeks or had some obvious visual clue that they were intelligent. It is just not possible for someone to be athletic and intelligent.

finished?

"If you want the job, make yourself able to get the job"

I wanted the job so hard I tried to get my DNA to change so that I was Indian but my damn lazy American genome would not cooperate.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. -Attributed to Cardinal Richelieu

Losers cry about psi. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.

This whole problem will go away when recording devices become so small that police will not know who is filming them and who is not. Eyeglasses? Could be a camera. Contact lenses? Camera? Glass eye? Camera. Third button down on the shirt? Camera.