It's actually not that far off from what MIT was doing with early millimeter wave radar in WWI, in some ways.

This is also just begging to be polished up some and used for a practical effect in a sci-fi movie.

Yes. The data was showing that a traumatic emotional event for a pregnant mother was literally causing neurological effects in the developing fetus.

...and one of the other things it found was that pregnant women who found out their loved ones were killed during the Winter War and Continuation War were more likely to have children who exhibited certain psychological conditions and behavioral pathologies.

Life that has never seen the surface of the Earth.

Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee would say otherwise.

There is risk in setting foot in the unknown. Sometimes that risk is death, because the reward is so precious when we finally learn how to walk there.

You need to step out of your ivory tower of academia - or at least stop naysaying those brave enough o blaze the trail for you so you can avoid the danger.

No, it will be the soda machine.

It will always give you lemon-lime instead of orange.

BattleTech is so awesome, there's actually a core canon novel that addresses that concern about the Solaris arenas. It's called "assumption of risk".

Short version: if you know something can kill you, and you do it anyway because you want to, if you die, it's your fault.

Except humans are obligate omnivores. *Some* members can survive in a subsistence mode on vegetable matter, but others cannot and many cannot do so long term in a healthy manner.

Any zoology grad student can point at our tooth layout and explain to you exactly why animals develop that incisor / eyetooth / bicuspid / molar order, and it's not for chewing leaves. It's there because our bodies, by and large, have a dietary requirement - driven by nutritional and physiological requirements - to tear and consume animal proteins. There is simply no getting around it.

Technically, humans can be caught and farmed. You might want to refine your group parameter constraints a little.

Misunderstand. Don't eat octopus. Uses tools. Also, aquatic lineage raises risk of being distant cousin. Bad for family gatherings.

Simple rule. Never broke it.

...Would have liked to put wasabi garnish on the seashells.

It's not an arrest for enabling stalking. It's an arrest for enabling *unapproved* stalking.

Significant portions of what gets counted as "edible" in other nations as meal units would not pass food safety and public health regulations in America.

We throw away a lot of food, yes. A significant chunk of that is precautionary for sanitary and regulatory reasons, and that is not a bad thing.

...sounds like a reference to that exact accented pronunciation of Rorschach's name in Watchmen (the original graphic novel, when Veidt calls the police to tip them off).

That can't be a coincidence.

Nobody can predict when I will suddenly chase a mammoth with a fork while buck naked.

Nobody.