As someone who works at NASA, a simple request:

There’s another issue here that was stated plainly by former national security official Richard Clarke in his NPR interview - the difference between this request and others is that the code the FBI is asking for DOES NOT EXIST YET. Meaning they’re asking for the power to compel a company to produce something new, as…

Our space program is alive and well, though.

He was an astronaut before NASA got defunded. There’s even a flashback of him test-piloting a ship. And Michael Caine saying “this is the mission you were trained for.”

I get the need for pressure equilibration, however if you really did have a catastrophic failure in the outer (primary) window, it seems a shitty design to now have your backup with an inherent slow leak through the bleed hole. A two-way valve makes way more sense.

I'd be a bit hesitant about making such a broad statement about human population curves - while you can find anecdotal environments (because when you're talking about an entire species, that's what they are) where the birth rate has slowed, the overall trend of the last 12,000 years has been increased food production…

Finally a Sunday Puzzle I can actually contribute to! The maths always leave me in the dust.

So.. The UFO hypothesis is COMPLETELY off the table then, really?

Sigh... alright, I'll be the guy.

Yeah dude, they're all good with evolution in the Catholic sphere.

As a younger, more insecure man, I would have made a self-conscious remark like "I'm not gay, but I'd totally do him."

Well, if you want to go that direction, all you have to do to kill HIV is expose it to air for a little while - its that easy to kill!

That book is my Bible.

Well, the point is it's low temperature compared to "conventional" fusion, i.e. high temperature toroidal fusion reactors and linear plasma collider reactors, AKA the only games in town as far as fusion research goes these days. By many orders of magnitude.

I hate to be a negative nancy here, but the cold fusion stuff drives me insane:

I think a post-diet Mark Hamill should be the only torch bearer bridging the series.

It's good to know I'm not the only one.

Wow, that's way better than how I was going to explain Mall Santas using the chubby Batmen from The Dark Knight!

Totally. And Netter was so good at drawing the perineum...