Came here to say this. Sort of. Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which the article quotes. A meme is basically an idea, or concept, that replicates from host to host. An internet meme is just one kind of meme, but in common parlance has become just meme. But yeah, the word was created to show how ideas mutate and evolve like genes, so it shouldn't surprise us that they actually do. It's nice to see confirming evidence though, I guess.

That doesn't make any sense, since it would have to have taken in place in some sort of prequel, which was never made.

The Millennium Falcon crashed. The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid belt are...well, they're not good, let's just leave it at that.

I thought you were going to make some pithy remark that the U.S. dollar is little different from Bitcoin in that regard, but perhaps you haven't realizede that yet.

This is exactly what they say about liberals/Democrats. Both sides think the other side is stupid, ignorant, and/or crazy.

I think it might still grade spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc so you're still out of "luch".

Forgive my stupidity, but why did you link to the very article to which you responded? Was it to get me to click endlessly in a loop, never to actually post? Because it almost worked.

I read it a few years ago. Surveillance was used successfully several times. For instance, there was a camera behind the mirror in the apt they were staying in, watching them the whole time.

Yeah, I think it's supposed to say something like, "This isn't from the satirical newspaper The Onion:". I thought it might be a reference to Tor at first. I'm not sure which reference is nerdier.

That had occurred to me. Perhaps we can at least agree that 1 is the loneliest number.

Does posting AC undo bad mods?

If I had to guess the most used number in the history of man, I would think 1 and 0 would be close to tied for first.

So they should start selling Apple products then.

42. Easy one.

Well, that pretty much covers it I guess. I was surprised the kingdom animalia didn't make it on the list, but then hey, I'm no biologist.

In all seriousness, this is a very interesting discovery and I hope it leads to cheap and widely accessible drinking water.