There's a little asterism at the Vulpecula/Sagitta border called The Coathanger that's arguably smaller than either of these. It's just barely visible with the naked eye under ideal conditions, but it's there. Pretty cool to spot, too - a real challenge.

Maybe if you were Japanese...

And who knew that history started in 1994? Back in the 70's and 80's when I was a CS major, and 90% of the students were male, I guess that wasn't a "gender gap". Huh.

Have you seen Caprica? While it's set in the Battlestar Galactica universe instead of Star Trek, it is a mostly planet-bound drama set in an age of interstellar travel, examining the implications of technology on the populace. Themes include religion, ethnic gangs, terrorism, and corporate greed. It was well reviewed but tanked in the ratings.

That ship has sailed. Note that ships almost never have sails anymore, either, so that term has been hijacked also. And don't get me started about "hijack" being applied to word meaning...

Sony is a Japanese corporation.

Dr. William Gray, noted hurricane predictor, has publicly downplayed the "warming causes more hurricanes" idea. I'm willing to trust him on this, since hurricane formation is complicated.

My Turing Machine still has only a 1D printer.

ISIS is already snatching up and executing journalists and aid workers suspected of ties to the CIA. The US populace is being manipulated to be horrified, we're already sending drones and bombers, probably will eventually send troops.

The ironic thing about Grubergate is that he's been proven right. The Republicans have used one recorded remark by a mid-level bureaucrat to override all fact-based arguments about the ACA for the past month. Yes, people really are stupid. Give them something to be angry about, and they'll vote against their own interests.

Also pointless. Unless you can personalize the printed thingy somehow, it just sounds like a more-expensive way to make cheap plastic trinkets, which are currently available by the truckload at any dollar store.

For a good example of mangling language in a tale of the future, try Riddley Walker. Tough reading, but an interesting book that won several awards. There's even a website devoted to interpreting the more confusing verbiage.

The same thing 2,500 times?

Sony has 140,000 employees; 40 gigabytes is already 280K per employee, so there's probably not much left to reveal just based on quantity alone.

We can't even estimate the error in the Drake Equation, since so much is fundamentally unknown. But at least we know more about the number of potential Earth-like planets out there, which is the real point of this article.

If you google "renewable energy can prevent climate change" without quotes, you get 70 million hits. If you google "renewable energy cannot prevent climate change", 30 million. Therefore, using the same methodology that was used to prove that Coloradans love them some frog eye salad, there's hope after all, Google!