There are naysayers living in the woodwork? My God. Are they intelligent?

Thankyou, Anonymous Serf.

I smell a rat

If you think you've solved the halting problem, you're premature.

After peering at these pictures for a while, trying to interpret the mounds and hollows I finally realised that the surface of Ceres is made of Angel Delight. To you non-UK folk out there, Wikipedia has a nice picture of butterscotch Angel Delight that may give you a flavour of what I'm trying to convey. It even has a few of those lumps that used to surface after it had been mixed unevenly, with the slight crunch.

Your attempt at a meme is lacking a USP. Try Aardvarks next time.

Developing some embedded software we had a common issue when adding new features that the code would crash when outputting strings to the console, until we added some debug code to identify the problem, when the crash would stop happening. We were in a hurry and so the code generally got shipped with the debug code suitably disabled but still present. I had some extra time one day and decided to investigate this, but couldn't find any coding errors. I eventually got around to looking at the output of the linker/locater to discover that the problem was related to trying to print the last declared string to the console. It emerged that the build tools would fail to append the closing null to the last string stored in the initialised memory portion of the image. Stored to EPROM, some of those final strings ended up with a lot of FF characters appended.

How, in God's name, do you manage to stand?

I have written embedded Pascal. Never ask me to do it again.

"Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler"

This line is much used in a bunch of movies where it is immediately followed by a meaningless sequence of explosions that are inexplicably survived by the good guys alone. In The Fifth Element however, it is followed by 10 minutes of ballet. It is for this reason alone I offer it as an alternative phrase.

Is it the orders of magnitude that are the problem or the magnitude of order?

Tanelorn is easy. It's in Second Life.

C&S G school by any chance? I credit the man with 5 to 10% of the marks of every exam I ever took, and a great enthusiasm for math.