Open data can create a new kind of digital divide, between those who have the ability and skill to use such data and those who don’t, putting the latter at a disadvantage.

It has come to our attention some people out there have taken to learning things, which puts the stupid and the lazy at a severe disadvantage. We need to regulate this now, to make sure that everyone in this country is equally misinformed and ignorant!

...a non-portable SSD?

Actually typical graphene is already a hexagonal lattice...

Wow, the joke train just blew through slew Station without even slowing down.

They need a warrant to search your phone WITHOUT CONSENT. When you unlocked it and handed it to the cop specifically to look at, you just consented.

Last time I got pulled over, the cop came up and said "Sorry, I misread your license plate, you can go" and then went back to his car. While I was glad it ended quickly, I'm left to wonder why he was running the plates of cars that weren't violating traffic laws and supect that the cruiser has some sort of camera system that's reading the plate of every single car that passes him and recording it in a database.

Comets Form Like Deep Fried Ice Cream Scoops

They're rolled in cinamon and sugar and deep fried?

Time itself is part of the universe, so asking what was "before" the creation of spacetime is a meaningless question.

I theenk ee as seen through the charade!

Yeah, but each of those 6 books was the length of half a dozen Pratchett novels, so it's not exactly an apples to apples comparison, is it?

I think some forget, or never knew, that his first book was published 1996. This guy is not a fast writer.

If you look at pages of output per year, he's actually one of the fastest writers ever. It's just the book are so big that it's still a long wait from one ot the next.

Even if they want resources, there's plenty of unihabited planets to exploit; it makes no sense to waste resources fighting humans for control of earth when you can strip mine mars uncontested.

Alien bacteria would most likely be completely harmless as Earth organisms as they would be evolved to exploit weaknesses in a completely different eco system. It would be like sticking x86 Windows Malware on a Sparc Solaris computer. It wouldn't be able to run.

Best part of the Novikov self-consitency princple is that if it's true, it means that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the most scientifically accurate time travel movie ever.

The largest virutal psychology lab. The scientists have just been conditioned to think it is.

Don't forget January 2014 when Atlanta's mayor took a wait and see approach to a storm and when it turned out worse than expected, he was excoriated for not taking it seriously enough.