It’s way more than 10 times if you use the Bluray figure. But then Bluray isn’t magnetic storage, soooooooooooooooooo.

Big League Chew was explicitly created as an alternative to chewing tobacco.

What is this beard-fu? No one grows beard so fast— clearly you’ve tapped a dark source of beard-chii, spilled blood from innocent chins, made hairy deals at a dim crossroads.

I’m so glad you’re not dead. I hope you’re still doing some of your own stuff somewhere on the interwebs, or at least recovering well from what you were going through a couple years back!

Have you lost weight or something? Dyed your hair or something? Can’t quite put my finger on it...

So much for the vaunted 10 year life-cycle of consoles...

Maple goddamn syrup.

If someone put a giant, floating eyeball over my house, I’m pretty sure I’d go buy a gun.

Which in turn means that it’s extremely difficult if not impossible to come up with an empirical test to verify the existence of consciousness.

That’s why evolutionary multiverse theories are so attractive: they allow for the possibility that there are an infinite number of universes in existence, but not all of them are hospitable to life because universes are born with different rules re.: physics.

I weren’t never talking about physical death, Johnny. Interruption between one consciousness state and another might well be viewed as a death of the self rather than death of the body. There’s no reason to think those two are the same thing. And no call to conflate philosophy and medicine.

Exactly, though with the concept of teleporters the question is perhaps a bit more literal and somewhat more testable (though not entirely unless we can pin down a mechanical basis for consciousness), less philosophical. Obviously you don’t die when you go to sleep, but do “you” stop when your consciousness stops?

Your first theory would be more likely to result in a universe that would be inhospitable to life.

Sperm cells are also haploid. Likely the benefit of using egg cells for research is that egg cells have better longevity than sperm cells.

Transporter copies shouldn’t be possible if you’re literally using the same reconstituted matter, though.

The answer is, in terms of matter over a long enough timeframe, no, you are not the same person you were at the beginning of the interval.

After the last time you get teleported in your entire life, you can look back through your life and think about all the versions of you that there have been and rest assured that you have experienced them all.

Her face is just a little bit longer than Lightning’s, but they’ve done a great job enhancing the resemblance!

I believe it’s called the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. Of course, there are plenty of other vowel shifts going on— the diphthongization of vowels in Southern English being another example of a vowel shift.

I’m surprised they haven’t done more destructive experiments with these spent capsules. Seems like you might as well run an experiment while burning up the trash! Also a great way to test safety systems in the most realistic environment possible without having to risk crew.