Uhm...the Montgolfier brothers, perchance?

That's good, because most people fail horribly at throwing themselves at the ground and missing. Not even high bridges seem to help.

Wow, I didn't even know that they had gone through a MIPS phase. I thought that after their Amiga period, they switched to PCs (I vaguely recalled Video Toaster NT). Fascinating...

Well, I think that merely flying the Lockheed F-104 is hazardous enough; anyone willing to try editing movies while flying it should probably seek out a mental health specialist.

Ethernet is the hardware equivalent of Fortran in the old prediction: "I don't know what the program^H^H^H^H^H^Hnetworking standard of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN^H^H^H^H^H^H^HEthernet." :-)

What, they're still making that stuff? It was awesome for the time...

Yes, fake movies are best produced with a fake movie editor.

If they want to know if the E-Cat works, why don't they just measure it with an E-meter?

No, you've got it all wrong. You see, the Sunnis will be quite happy if you cheerfully massacre a few Shi'ites for them, and the Shi'ites won't consider it a big deal if you blow up a few Sunnis into the afterlife every now and then. You just have to be clever and concentrate on killing Muslims of only one of those two kinds, and then live in barracks close to the housings of the other kind, or otherwise you'll be meeting angry Muslims on the streets instead of the jubilating ones.

Alternatively, both Sunnis and Shi'ites will pat you on the back and buy you a beer if you bring them a scalp of an Ahmadi. That's one of the few things they can agree upon.

What about a MITM attack? Doesn't need Bob verify that the plates are actually the ones that Alice manufactured? You don't need to copy the plates to barge into the channel.

Sure, if your 9 year old daughter is a missing adult, they won't be looking for her any time soon. What a snag!

Wow, that means that the Prenda and MAFIAA guys are actually good guys!

Are you sure about that? Unless we're talking about GTO launches, an equatorial orbit is dfficult to reach from Cape Canaveral since you're actually not on the equator.

You know, had you actually watched Star Trek VI and the new episodes of Star Wars by the time you saw that, you would have known that an alien explosion would have made a 2D shockwave and not a spherical one. If nothing else, we can at least thank Lucas for fixing this bit of general education.

But they're not actually "dumping the fuel". What they're doing is stopping the combustion process by means of an explosive decompression. It's more like stopping a campfire by opening doors into space, rather than venting a tank. The wood pile stays inside, it just stops burning. (And if the solid fuel only continues burning at a reduced rate, it can't generate any thrust anyway because there's little pressure in the chamber, and no de Laval nozzle attached to it anymore to turn it into a supersonic stream.)