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.

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." :-)

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.

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.