Except they can measure its mass, and it's way too massive not to be anything but a gas giant.

You can't legislate the social activities of freely consenting adults engaged in legal behavior. This Missouri *LAW* attempts to do just that, hence it's unconstitutional. If it were simply school policy, that would be something else entirely, but this is now a prosecutable offense.

This is totally the wrong way to look at it. Sure, one way to spin the results is to say that people are getting dumber because they don't memorize as much data when they know they can always just look it up. But base cognitive capacity is not being reduced here. What's really happening is that people are simply…

I was known as Disk Tyrant on the local BBS scene of the Orange County and Long Beach areas in California circa 1989-1995. I had just read Bio of a Space Tyrant by Piers Anthony and wanted to use tyrant somehow...added the disk part to tie it to computers.

Those kids in the first movie were called "potentials," not hopefuls. I took it to mean potential "redpills", not potential candidates for the One. They all knew it was Neo. The Oracle knew Neo needed to die first before he could accept it, and that it would take Trinity's love to make that happen, hence the…

I'm thinking the bonus points were meant for the Christine reference...about the killer car from the Stephen King book.

I've met Bill Nguyen before, back when he ran lala.com. He's a bundle of enthusiasm and energy, but he never sticks to anything for long. I visited lala's Palo Alto office because I was a prominent member and the staff all knew me from my prolific activity on the site. I got to sit down with Bill and listen to some…

That's not true. Maternity isn't based on which uterus in which a baby develops, but whose egg was fertilized. Otherwise, surrogates would be the technical mothers of the babies they carry, even though they didn't provide the egg.

I drink one can of soda a day, and I pick the stuff like Mexican Coke, Pepsi Throwback, etc., that use real sugar instead of HFCS. I drink the soda with my dinner, which is very high in fiber. The rest of the day I drink water. It's worked out well...I can look forward to my refreshing can of soda at the end of the…

I use Audiogalaxy with my entire collection of about 1,600 CDs, which takes up over 400 gigs...it works beautifully. Search is instantaneous with no lag time. I love having my entire collection available to me on my iPhone. Haven't had to sync any music in ages. It's also nice to have all my music on hand from my…

If you have to put it in quotes, then it doesn't count. He has never tested positive for performance enhancing drugs taken for competition. After all, he had to take substances considered banned for competition just to survive the metastatic cancer he had. Doesn't make him a cheater.

Demographic collapse. China skews old. As you go progressively younger, the population drops precipitously. Additionally, compounding matters, that small younger population skews male, the result of the one child policy causing families to prize male babies over females, which means that in coming decades, a whole…

I look at it this way...so far the only people who have come out and claimed to witness Armstrong doping are those who have failed drug tests and been disgraced, plus also happen to be coming out with a book about their sordid ways. Floyd Landis? Check. Tyler Hamilton? Check. But the guy in question has never…

Once AT&T put a stop to free MyWi tethering, I saw no more need for jailbreaking, so I stopped. And as a result, wi-fi works again. For some reason, it stopped working after jailbreaking, which was a major inconvenience being forced to use 3G all the time.

Definitely not a SAW. That thing is tripod mounted, so most likely a .50 cal. SAWs use a bipod located to the front of the rifle.

I was planning on visiting NYC soon and wondering where to stay...I just found a new resource! Awesome! And as someone who plans to eventually move there, the bonus is that I would get to experience the city more from a local perspective than a tourist perspective. I'll be making several visits before I move there,…

I add movies to my queue faster than I watch them...and there have been times in the past when discs sat around for months before I finally watched them, but I've been better about it in the past several years, and now I rarely let a week go by before I watch a movie from my disc queue, although my instant queue is…