I think you hit the nail. Just like Don Quixote, you have to appreciate how different this book is from other works of that time. We are talking about 1605, a few people could write, read, and most of the book were about religious stuff and natural philosophy.

I finished reading The Catcher in the Rye just yesterday. I think teenagers can appreciate that book just like I enjoyed reading The War of the Buttons by Louis Pergaud when I was twelve.

I wonder if any of the several coronal mass ejections that appear in the movie interacted with the plasma tail of the comet.

I'd play Midway's Submarine.

I played this rarity only once, when I was a kid. If I had a wish, I'd choose to have one, not only for playing, but also to take a look at the intrincate mechanical simulators of waves and clouds. HD graphics are impressive, but there's nothing compared to actually grab and look through a real periscope. But I suppose I'm just being nostalgic.

Back to my memories, the visor in the periscope could get some cleaning though, after countless greasy foreheads of nerds.

When I saw a CowboyNeal option in the poll I knew that the GCHQ set up us the spoof.

My girlfriend is a rocket scientist, you insensitive clod!

At least "News for Nerds" is back! The rest will be added soon, I guess.

Do you think a CowboyNeal option in each poll would be asking too much?

I propose "The sound of interstellar ion-acoustic waves detected by Voyager... over your head"

"TLDR" ?? :)

This recent 1-h presentation from Helen Mason at the Royal Institute is extremely informative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbI6TDHCfe4

From the article:

"Changes to the field's polarity ripple all the way out to the Voyager probes, on the doorstep of interstellar space."

Expect new announcements about Voyager 1 reaching interstellar space in the next 3 to 4 months :P

Well I think we all agree that this story was a massive dissapointment. Does anybody know about a level from any videogame reproduced in real life?

Welcome to 1983.

Ray, since humans are not perfect beings, any technology created until now have vulnerabilites introduced by human error. Do you think that, after the Singularity, a machine will be able to overcome and correct these vulnerabilites, becoming a perfect entity, or the capabilities of the superintelligence emerging by technological means will be bounded by errors inherited from their creators?

Which is your favorite dinosaur, and why?

Will programs using the CUDA libraries have increased performance as well?

In 2012, war was begginng

Anonymous Coward (AC): What happen ?

Thimoty: Somebody set up us the bomb.

AC: We get signal.

Thimoty: What !

AC: Main screen turn on.

Thimoty: It’s you !!

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I could not find any instance of the word 'flare' in the paper that I downloaded from the abstract link in the summary.