@trunicated: My main issue with the scanners is that they're both potentially dangerously irradiating me, and may well not work.

@sneakypoo: Given it's an lcd screen, you're probably looking at about 8 hours. Should be enough to last a relatively long trip, as long as you're not doing anything too intensive with it.

"How did you beat me when we swam that day?"

@Shyro: Why? It's a hobby. Most people don't get awards for their hobbies.

Interesting point. With everyone commenting that they'd just walk over the barrier, maybe they would. Note at the end the sudden flow of people walking over the barrier, in my view responding to the first person to do it. Suddenly, crossing the barricade becomes the conformist act. Just shows you well built into human…

@Metalface Eagle: That's a pretty terrible one. Anyway, it's not about SEM, the fun comes in with TEM. Had a look at the images one of the TITAN system puts out. Literally atomic resolution. It is fucking awesome.

@ngiardina: Given that that's his first ever comment...

@C3PA: Think that's bad? Look at this, posted below:

@C3PA: Yeah, but those were fan breakups. You can't contain a disc breakup. If you want your plane to fly, you don't even try (at least with current technology). If a disc cracks in half (as is the case here) it's a complete crapshoot. You're right, luck was important.

@daqman: I'm wondering whether the problem is due to the fact it's on Qantas. The engines are being used hotter on these than they are usually (according to various other news sources), requiring additional controls and mechanisms. I'm curious as to whether the flaws are in that stage.

@Mike: Awesome, I've been looking for web links for them for a while. I've used the pics before. Shows how insanely powerful the momentum in the disc is.

@Alasdair Wilkins: Even if you ignore Big Finish, McCoy reprised his role in the in-TV canon film. That makes him the longest.

@secretmanofagent: Adfree android. Requires root. Is awesome.

@Sedirex: You're forgetting comics and magazines. If they made a colour e-ink reader which showed comics and magazines in proper colour (and preferably read cbr/cbz files), and had a similar battery life to the current b+w readers, I'd buy it in a second.

@littlemisslondon: Metallurgy. It's not the most socially conscious fields, because people are mainly determined by the metal they're working on. It may well be a regional thing, or perhaps I've not been in enough situations where the skin tone of people mattered sufficiently to hear it. It just felt very outdated to…

@realmotherfucker: Yeah, but I only sign in when I want to make a comment. I'd prefer it if they set show all as the default for the non logged in.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: Shops are paid in cash, and they then bank it in large amounts. Banks sort it and send in the crap ones.

@Dodge2002: Yeah, it's slightly out of date. Though that is where the phrase pound sterling (having done some more reading, maybe not) came from, and applied to the notes before the coins.

@J_Frank_Parnell: @Villenta: @Mian_Toris: Fair enough. Being a Brit, it's a rather different situation, as non-white people are usually referred to as ethnic minorities, due to the fact that Britain (excepting London) is very white. As time changes, we may require a different epithet, although I've always been…

@donrhummy: The second one has pretty much happened naughtily.