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After entering Chilean territory illegally perhaps they should send him to killer whale Alcatraz?

Dinosaurs don’t take credit cards

Lets drop you into the mid Cretaceous period and see how far your education takes you. Without the contributions of millions of others on a daily basis you’d have nothing.

I think you understand how labor statistics work about as well as Trump.

Microsoft. Microsoft never changes.

It’s a good point: I’d assumed that the plan was to make the payload of basically the same material as the tether/structure, and have it destructively tear-off at the right moment …

Ah, but that’s the thing it’s not compression it’s tension. Try hanging the same steel cube from the ceiling with a scrap of paper and things get decidedly more difficult. And even…

You can certainly make the tethers longer, but that re-introduces other problems with the tensile strength that the current proposed shape is intended to mitigate. I’m very skeptic…

I think the idea is very interesting, but please correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t the payload experiencing a sustained acceleration of hundreds of thousands of Gs, if not millions? I…

Notice how quickly it cuts? I wonder why. But I guess you never did.

What a useful and timely reminder to delete your data from 23andmes website. Thank you.

Just assume 100% of them are unless they can prove otherwise.

You might be interested in making a donation to “The Human Fund” - their slogan is “Money for people”. Kruger Industrial Smoothing are a major donor. Ask about the Festivus special…

They found the dwarf bread! Still looks and tastes like the day it was made.

You will never sell anything to any of those people ever again.

I think you’ll find “Hurt me plenty” is sufficient for all but the toughest baked on food stains.

From memory, the primary advantage of the 386SX was the ability to use a cheaper 16-bit motherboard layout and components. The lack of a 32bit bus mattered less when most software …

So basically you are fine living in a imperialist, totalitarian dictatorship, where the slightest descent is punished by years in prison, because the boot on your neck is Russian m…

Just to clarify further, we are talking about the Katyn massacre Soviet Union?

You mean former-Nazi allies the Soviet Union?

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Why not just host it in the same place every time? Greece would be the obvious choice. Think of all the money and co2 You could save. But oh wait - that would make it much harder f…

There are several issues with remastering Babylon 5: 1) the variable frame rate: live action is 24p anything with CG is effectively 60p (both in a 60i container). This is difficult…

Gotta read that one with a copy of The Wasteland, and From Ritual To Romance handy. The command systems train as lance smashing into the inverted chalice (grail) dome of the statio…

That is literally the viewpoint of the protagonist of Consider Phlebas.