Yes because time and time again it has been proven that lampooning conspiracy theorists is the same as buying into their theories. Thank you, lieutenant obvious. Hope you get that promotion you've been working towards.

I predict this turning into a "global conspiracy to push more vaccines (hence autism) on our kids". I, for one, welcome our viral overlords.

Well, about a quarter of them did, anyway.

Yeah... about that...

The shovel is to give to Liebnitz in exchange for the shovel that he borrowed from Newton. That'd settle the grudge that culminated in the calculus debacle, and advance scientific progress to the point that we'd have a time machine in our lifetime.

Let's accept, for the moment, the claim that pigs are dependent on humanity. I think that this is an oblique nod to the intelligence of pigs, which (accoring to a friend of mine who grew up with pigs) is similar to that of cats. The claim here is that "since this life form is dependent upon us, we can eat it despite being as smart as a cat". Pretty sure that the same argument can be applied to justify eating human babies.

Or, in the case of Hawking, several "right women". 'Cause when you're a rock star and you know it, you don't just stop at one.

A healthy amount of paranoia is a must in the security industry. Every piece of security hardware or sofware demands third-party evaluation, even that made by people you trust completely. Not all flaws are deliberate. Thank you for your time, and (at last) thoughtful response.

I didn't say that DARPA was evil. I just said that this merits an independent audit. I take your flippant answer for a "no".

3d printing air into solid aluminum? I'm sold! Can you do transparent aluminum too?

When old enemies arrive at your door bearing a gift horse large enough to fit a fireteam, don't stop at it's mouth, do a full cavity search.

Are there independent third-party audits underway? If DARPA likes it, I'm suspicious.

Quantum mechanics is not strange. Humans are simply stupid.

Stop buying boutique shit, dumbass. Get it from the garden store like the rest of us. It only costs a few bucks a yard.

Real actual skeptic here (I think). Is the internet reducing religious affiliation because people are being exposed to different opinions? Or is the internet addictive, and does it subsume all of its occupants' time? Atheists are so eager to claim success that they don't even remember to check for confirmation bias and apply occam's razor.

Religious affiliation is correlated with increased mental health and a strong local community. The outspoken minority of religious fucks make the rest look bad to the undiscriminating outsider (oblig).

From where I stand, it looks like people are getting more extreme than their churches. They want to subjugate and punish and judge, and go against all the good parts of their religions. So they are leaving the churches in droves, and taking their hatred and ignorance to the internet. This may be a result of sampling bias (see oblig link above), and begs for good science to be done.

What the hell guys, if you're going to try and design something to replaced an entrenched convention, you might as well go whole hog. Oh wait, no, I know... their website isn't in Esperanto because such projects always fail.