Ribbons do have some actual practical advantages over menus and toolbars. They dynamically and predictably scale to fill available screen space,

Is this scaling an advantage? How does the ribbon know how much space is available? What if the user is running other programs?

Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a spelling geek!

Couldn't you achieve the same effect by having sufficient gravity to break the electron shells?

I don't think 1960s Michelle Nichols had to travel to an alternate universe to get hit on.

no electromagnetism to promote "clumping" into atoms

The formation of nuclei with more than one proton requires the strong force.

Religion is a cheap thing.

Have you seen the Vatican? Or Joel Osteen's safe?

What if nature is simply part of the universe, rather than a simulation of it?

And are those laws written in some language?

If "nature" is really just a computer running a simulation that we live inside

Then what is it simulating?

That's a feature, not a bug.

Also, nature doesn't have to solve the Napier-Stokes equation. Unless you take the resulting arrangement of stuff as a solution.

Or P=0.

So --i still decrements i? Can I get an Amen!!

Anything below a leading "--" is a sig.

Four. There are four shades of gray!

Can Raskolnikov haz rubles?