Most new generations of animals are born early in the spring, to take advantage of spring and summer food supplies, thus fattening up the newborns before the dearth of fall and winter. So, to my thinking, a springtime meteor strike would cull almost an entire generation, which can't be a good thing for reasonably short-lived species.

Oh, NO! Please, for the love of $DEITY, NO! A thousand times, NO! On my life, and that of my children, NO!!!
Did we learn nothing from the massive, read-only (at least when it didn't matter) single-point-of-failure that is/was Windows Registry??? Must a multi-bit (in a single byte) error cause complete and utter system degradation/destruction?
MUST those who refuse to learn the lessons of history relearn them in screaming agony???

No. That article was about the blackboard. This article is about the anti-blackboard.

Lots of people are saying, science doesn't know what it's talking about. Everybody says science is just waying what they want you to believe.

So you're saying that a company that makes stuff (well) is more valuable than a company that (to put it kindly) doesn't do anything of any positive, recognizable value? That's un-American!

And exactly how many grams of net per phone do you suppose they're going to be using?

Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow. At least that was the idea. After Walt died, they turned it into a ride.

Everything old is new again. Personally, I prefer to pay for my software based on the CPU model and clock rate ;)

In general, Democrats can't understand why, if they explain it logically, everyone will agree with them; while Republicans can't understand why everyone else doesn't think with their amygdala.

Or JWST to launch.

And here I thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist's.

It hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't. And then it didn't.

The issue really is: this lawyer thinks he smells BIG money, and is afraid HE will be dead by then, hence the ad hominem appeal to the Slashdot readership (among others).
This is nothing but ambulance-chasing on a galactic scale.

Won't someone think of the lawyers?

When I read the headline, I was reminded of the "Manna" story about how the computer runs the "restaraunt" via headsets on the employees, telling them what to do next. Certainly IBM could do a good job controlling a galley slave ship.

Heisenberg and Schrodinger get pulled over for speeding.

The cop asks Heisenberg "Do you know how fast you were going?"

Heisenberg replies, "No, but we know exactly where we are!"

The officer looks at him confused and says "you were going 108 miles per hour!"

Heisenberg throws his arms up and cries, "Great! Now we're lost!"

The officer looks over the car and asks Schrodinger if the two men have anything in the trunk.

"A cat," Schrodinger replies.

The cop opens the trunk and yells "Hey! This cat is dead."

Schrodinger angrily replies, "Well he is now."