Any conversion into a data stream leads to the ability for multiple receive locations creating duplicates. Since each of these duplicates is produced in an absolutely identical fashion, the odds that “you”, the complete experience of yourself, being transported into any one of the host bodies must be equal, and…

The cool thing about this is that even if the explosives totally ruin your MegaBlocks, they’re only MegaBlocks. It’s not like you’re destroying something priceless, like Lego.

Doesn’t have Xur from The Last Starfighter, and I can think of him.

Does gawker cover bullshit, or is gawker covered in bullshit? These things are questions that we as consumers must ask.

Without the sun, the cacao tree could not possibly have created the cacao pod. The cacao pod is the product of the plant, and an investment into the future of the cacao tree’s species. It is trying to take over the planet. Do your duty. Eat its offspring, if only to prevent it from taking over the world.

The heart wants what the heart wants.

Your fascination with the argument from authority is troubling. At no point has he ever claimed to even BE an authority.

He has never claimed to be an expert. Ever. If I’m wrong, please show me where he has done so and I will retract.

He is a thinking person, who has sufficient interest in the sciences to have an understanding of many disciplines. And anyone can publish a book. If you like, you can do the same. And if it’s totally wrong, people will assassinate you in papers and online. If you find Nye’s books or debates to be done incompetently,…

The problem with the new Star Trek movies is that all pretense at examining the effect of technology on society is gone. It isn’t sci-fi. It’s an adventure movie in space.

Yep, they do. Because it is.

Something tells me that you have done zero science in your life, because that is NOT what a scientist is. A scientist is one who adheres to the scientific method and submits his results to the body of knowledge. That’s all. You don’t need a Master’s or a PhD to do science. Those degrees are a very effective way of…

Being an ignorant moron has never in human history prevented a person from holding strong opinions.

Or, you can have a drive by wire system where the car evaluates input and decides whether the course of action requested by the user is reasonable or not.

Where do you get the 99 percent figure from the framework provided by the movie’s first two minutes?

There is ample evidence that intelligent people have intelligent children. Whether it is genetic or epigenetic, we have no idea. It could be cultural, genetic, or both. There is a curiosity, a desire for information, in the intelligent that the unintelligent lack. We don’t know whether the desire for information makes…

You are making the unfortunate extension that the movie endorses some kind of solution to the problem. It never does. It never hints at one. All it states is the fact that intelligent people have ambitions which take them away from fuckin’, and that they tend to have the presence of mind to control their breeding even…

What you have just done does not really cast my assumption that you’re beleaguered with The White Man’s Burden under much criticism. You might want to work on your argument skills, ConLawHero.

I am both a sarcastic fucknozzle AND a fun guy to be around.

Well, the passcode AND a 256 bit salt provided by the encryption chip on the board, which won’t tell anyone the salt, but will happily decrypt so long as you feed it the right passcode.