In the fourteenth century, the rats were considerably cleaner than the humans.

While the comet mission is certainly worthy, Titan is is the most Earth-like body in the solar system, except for temperature. It has a thick atmosphere of mostly nitrogen. It has a complex "hydrological" cycle with methane as the analog to water. There are surface lakes, rivers, and seas of liquid methane and ethane. The Cassini-Huygens mission detected extremely complex hydrocarbons in the atmosphere. All of this makes Titan a really interesting place to look for life. If it's there, it will likely be Very Different from life as we know it.

My experience with Comcast included the following:

• They delivered slower service thanI paid for unless I repeatedly called to complain
• Their service model appeared to be based on hatred of their customers.
• Connectivity was unreliable.

So yes, they are lying. What did you expect?

Agreed. He was very well known back when he was writing. I devoured his stuff back in the early sixties when I was in junior high. The list of his works in Wikipedia is by no means complete.

These guys were a lock for the prize as soon as their paper was published. The only question was in which year would it be awarded. Awesome work.

I have no explanation, but I've noticed that this happens every year.

Back in the early 70s when I was a grad student in biology, there was a lot of LSD around; also psilocybin, mescaline, and of course pot. Many of us used them as recreational drugs. It was fun, but it sure as hell didn't get your thesis written or your research done, even. For that you needed coffee. The few who took the "insights" of those trips seriously wound up going down the rabbit hole of "deep ecology" or some other bullshit.

It's worth noting that except for the title two words, "Danke Schön", Newton sang the song in English. I too hope that was tongue in cheek.

The wave front of the first broadcast of Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen" is now 54 light years from Earth. The alien extermination fleet is probably already on its way.

Knowledge of the Hayes command set was fundamental to geek cred.

Right you are, Joe. It changed me too. Having access to one of those things and learning BASIC programming made me "the guy who knows about computers" before they were common in a business environment. It gave a huge leg up over the next few decades.

Nah! It was Rock N Roll in the fifties. It's been all downhill since then.

Nice try Anonymous Coward. I still see more posts from you.

>Who uses WhatsApp because it is end-to-end encrypted, rather than because it is an incredibly user-friendly and cheap way of staying in touch with friends and family?

I do! Some of my friends and family are in countries without the freedom of speech protections of the United States and the United Kingdom. ThoughtCrime can get you in a lot of trouble in large parts of the world.

Kill it with fire and pour acid on the ashes. It's only use in history is as a horrible cautionary tale.