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Comment Face it: aliens are real... (Score 1) 143

...and their spacecraft, timeships, or whatever have been visiting us for decades. However it is not what your think! My hypothesis is that the craft are crewed by the alien equivalent of high-school-aged boys and/or frat boys out for a joy ride, terrorize the neighbors and otherwise make merry. My hypothesis about the crew complement and there purposes (as such) neatly explains their predilection for anal probes and cattle mutilation.

Comment This has me chuckling (Score 1) 359

OP wrote: "I'm domestic — a handful of terabytes..." Jeez back in the day (yes, I am dating myself) I was the SysAdmin for a system that ran something like 7 business applications supporting about 1200 simultaneous users with a grand total of 512 MB of RAM and about 24GB of disk and a single core CPU running, at best, maybe 400 MHz. Now I've got a rather decent laptop with about 16GB of RAM, a 500GB disk and an 8-core CPU and if open more than about three browser windows the system runs out of CPU and memory. My how times have changed

Comment sources inform me... (Score 5, Funny) 178

...that "Ever Given" will soon be renamed to "Ever Gift". I have consulted with a medium and that person assures me that on the vessel's next trip from the orient to europe she will be laden with containers full of christmas/holiday toys and will once again become wedged in the Suez Canal. Said containers will fall off the bow and, when asked to explain how that could happen yet again, the Suez pilot will state, "well, this is the Gift that keeps on Given"

Comment Re:SpaceX Starship detonates after landing (Score 1, Offtopic) 63

Well, it seems to me that rocket launches are a bit interesting. But once the rocket clears the pad and the tower it gets, well, boring. So maybe Elon is thinking that, in order to maintain interest and have spectacular optics, there have to be some explodey things. ...just a thought.

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