Pop quiz for people who can't believe this story is true:

That was my reaction also. You would think that any leak at all would be catastrophic, given the pressure differential.

I have 3 kilowatt PV array on my roof that produces enough excess electricity that it would cover all my driving if I bought a Nissan Leaf. As soon as used electric cars become available I plan to ditch fossil fuels altogether.

I use a dumbphone, and a prepaid one at that, simply because for me it would be insane to pay $70 a month for cell service. I work from home and rarely run errands (thanks to Amazon Prime), so a prepaid dumbphone is more than adequate for my ordinary needs. When I travel I activate 3G on my iPad for access to email,…

Thank you for injecting some rationality into this discussion. Some people tend to make dire pronouncements about the dangers of some activity simply because it is unconventional. If they have some evidence of actual dangerous contaminants being measured in seltzer made with paintball gas, then great, post a link.…

Virgin Galactic should offer sky-diving trips where they open the hatch of SpaceShipTwo at the apogee and let you jump out with a parachute.

I come up with a phrase and then replace part of it with the first letters of the words. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow > maryhadalittlelwfwwas

I add a standard string of numbers to each of my answers so even if someone can figure out the correct answer it won't work.

Thanks! Looks like there is some disagreement among the Federal courts; maybe it will end up having to be decided by the Supremes.

I am sure the woman who was court ordered to turn over the password to her encrypted disk will be glad to hear that what happened to her is not true!

At least one U.S. Federal District Court judge disagreed with your interpretation of the Fifth Amendment.

In a world of people desperate to avoid exercising every day, and desperate to avoid eating less, a scientist can depend on getting publicity and funding if they have some theory that implies that people are helpless victims when it comes to getting fat.

I sure hope this turns out to work as described; it would change the world. However, after decades of reading about bold new technologies that in the end turned out not to work as advertised, I am not holding my breath.

Not significantly worse than a number of nights in major German cities towards the end of WW2.

Eat shit and live!

Scientists have no idea what the right mix of bacteria is for the human gut. Sure they could spend years surveying the bacteria populations of thousands of people, identify the optimum mix of dozens to hundreds of bacteria strains, grow those all in the lab and develop a process for mixing them all and then keeping…

You might not even need to kill off your existing bacteria; just introducing some new bacteria might do the trick. You can find a turkey baster at the local dollar store....

I used to have a $1/day seltzer water habit. To a tightwad like myself $1 a day is a crazily extravagant expense. However, when I looked into the SodaStream it was also too expensive for my taste. Some more digging around uncovered a kit sold by [KegConnection.com] that includes a 5lb CO2 tank, a regulator, and a…

I have no knowledge of how exactly Google stores its data, but I would imagine they store the person's data in the clear in a database and all the password does is allow access to that data through the public web interface. So even though Google doesn't know what the password is, they can still hand over all the data.

All the FBI has to do is get a court order directing Mr. Dears to hand over his Google password, and then if he doesn't they can jail him until he does turn it over. Once he is in jail for contempt of court the FBI can relax because the goal was, after all, to put him in jail.