The post-mortems may shed some light on that.

I'd still rather have a good blaster at my side

Easy enough to check. Send up a can of mixed nuts to the space station and put it in a slow centrifuge. Spin it for a few days then open it up and... shit, someone ate all the cashews and almonds, and reluctantly the peanuts, leaving only the brazil nuts. FAIL.

Do not make him angry. You wouldn't like it if he's angry.

One of the problems with banananas is that food crop bananas are clones, and so as a monoculture the crops are prone to complete loss by disease.

Unrelated, but mentioned in the article, everything that is not dark green or orange that you add vitamin A to will take on an orange hue. That is not a surprise. Also not a problem.

Just from the summary, I will infer that this entire discussion will be inferences made with sparse data.

Dude, if we're ever in Denver together I would like to smoke weed with you.

When your dog starts pooping east-west it is time to take earthquake precautions
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...

It should require explicit opt-out to turn it off each time. It would be easier for everyone that way.

mass of sail = mass of napkin on which the calculations were done

ftfy ;-)

hence the question about communicating with her

how much for a private room where you can attempt to bone your partner? (apparently there are some difficulties maintaining position in zero g)

Or is that what the "party room" is for?

For 1 dollar I will push you off a cliff. You'll have to sign a waiver first though, because the safety record is atrocious.

Great range, zero emissions, they've already been tested.

This is very doable.

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And I don't see any potential downsides