butter, vegetable oil, margarine, whatever man. Fat people eat lots of it, thin people eat little. Stop trying to blame your obesity on evil corporate conspiracies and just face the fact if you stopped stuffing your piehole with food so much, you would lose weight.

what exactly does Beats have that Apple can't come up with by itself in an afternoon? Hell they could get Eminem or some other rapper to endorse it for a lot less money.

I used to be an Apple faithful but I think their days of innovation are past. Even Samsung is still trying to make its own shit like the VR goggles rather than just buy whatever seems popular.

You have an almost religious belief in sci fi and geekdom and machine intelligence. Perhaps I'm a heretic and my faith isn't as strong as yours, but just looking at the current pathetic state of AI (even after 50 years of trying) tells me that thinking machines ain't happening in my lifetime, or my children's lifetimes... and possibly never.

Even IBM's Watson, supposedly the pinnacle of AI technology, couldn't understand what Alex Trebek was saying. Yup, somebody typed in the question on a keyboard beforehand and fed it to the computer.

Call Cyborg!

He can shoot a rocket through his shoe

Go Cyborg!

Pretty, yes. Safe, no. Placing the engines at some distance from the aircraft's main structure turns out to the a great safety feature in the event of an engine fire or explosion.

I went through the slideshow but didn't see my favorite, the XF-85 Goblin parasite fighter. At the time, jet fighters had very limited range and in-flight refueling hadn't been developed yet, so there was a great concern about how to protect long-range bombers from enemy jets when your own jet fighters can't escort the bombers very far, and long-range piston engine fighters (i.e. the P-51) would be outclassed by enemy jet fighters.

So they designed this tiny jet fighter to be carried under the B-36, and if you saw enemy jets approaching, release the Goblin which would fight off the enemy and then return to the B-36 and dock with it via a trapeze. Good idea in theory, but two things killed it off: 1) You needed superhuman piloting skills to successfully land on the mothership... maybe Chuck Yeager could do it but most pilots couldn't, and 2) in-flight refueling became possible.

I always thought it was pretty cool though, like an aircraft carrier in the sky.

Watch an old nuclear weapon test footage with trees in it. First you see the flash of light, and instantaneously the trees erupt in flames due to the intense radiation. Then a few seconds later, the shockwave (basically a strong air current) arrives and it puts the fire out.

You can substitute nuclear with a fuel-air bomb, which has the added benefit of sucking away all the oxygen in the area.

Wait, I've gotten speeding tickets before and I've always had to write the check to the city/county courthouse, not the police department.

I got the disease from playing a piano, you insensitive clod!

very interesting, thanks for the link. imma go eat more beef jerky now, I love that stuff xD

Dragon is already reusable, and Falcon 9R first stage looks like it's gonna be reusable soon. (reusable 2nd stage seems more doubtful considering the enormous reentry speeds involved)

If or when they start doing regular launches with the reusable Dragon and F9R, how low do you think they can get the price per seat down to? Russians are charging $71m per seat, can SpaceX get it down to $1m per seat?

Potassium yes, nitrates no.

Most people in developed countries eat way to much nitrates via sodium nitrate which is used as a preservative in things like hot dogs, sausages, beef jerky, ground beef (pink slime).

USA is a poor example since the penalties for drugs vary widely (anywhere from probation to decades in prison) and are inconsistently enforced.

Singapore on the other hand, has a consistent and well-enforced policy: sell drugs, you get executed. Note that drug usage in SG is near zero.

yes but a whale still drinks the poop water and its skin is constantly immersed in it. That can't be good.

I don't think it's the confinement. Wolves which range hundreds of miles are kept in captivity by humans in small areas (dogs), and they live far longer with humans than in the wild.

I think it's the water quality. Dog poop and urine don't mix with the air, they don't breathe it in. Marine animals on the other hand, DO breathe their own feces. Which is why it's essential to have a large volume of water per animal, as happens in nature.

I have guppy fish in a 30 gallon tank. They almost never live past 2 years in captivity. In nature however, guppies live 5 years or more.

I've been thinking of doing an experiment for quite a while. Take two groups of guppies, one in a common aquarium environment, say 10 guppies in a 10 gallon tank (1 inch of fish per gallon). The other group would live in a far less dense tank, maybe 5 guppies in a 200 gallon tank. (5 would be the minimum number since guppies are communal fish and they don't do well mentally unless they're in a group). And compare the fish lifespan in the the 2 groups.