If that’s so, and I certainly don’t doubt it, still the event was awful selective. The crocodilians, lizards, turtles and snakes have a lot of diversity for only 65 million years, as do the birds. For the event to have killed every single reptilian saurid while leaving so much diversity in mammals, plants, birds, and…

I want you to contemplate, just for a second, the possibility that while distinguishing between members of different communities could be easy for ants, because each deliberately uses unique perfumes, that it would still be possible to create a GENERIC perfume by using only the pheromone that triggers egg-guarding…

With insects, the general rule is that if you don’t understand why a bug does a particular thing, check the chemistry. Insects have very basic brains, and respond in a very reliable fashion to pheromones and other scents. All the butterfly would have to do is to make these eggs smell like that species of ant’s eggs,…

Someone should tell the director of X-men : Apocalypse, then, because he very clearly bisects and lights a tree on fire with a careless swipe of his eyeball rays.

You can never forget that Jaime Lannister is the sort of man who would murder a child if he sees the child as a threat. He never intended for Bran to live. He isn’t a nice guy, he is a villain with a predictable set of behaviors which include expediency and loyalty to those who continue to serve his purposes.

Easy. Cyclops. Why? Because he has a ranged weapon that’s extremely powerful. Superman’s heat vision takes about 5 seconds to heat a piece of steel sheet metal to red hot. Cyclops could do that in milliseconds.

It’s not the majority of Clinton supporters who call names, it’s the uncreative dimwits (every candidate has some followers who are clearly stupid, it’s a statistical impossibility to run a campaign and attract absolutely zero stupid people) who have no real or compelling reason to support their candidate’s policies…

Refusal to vote for a particular candidate is so much easier to deal with when one can simply accuse them of misogyny instead of listening to the things they’re saying. If you like dynastic returns to already known and failed policies, and are willing to put up with a conservative, reactionary hawk just to have a…

I guess you have to decide whether feminism includes female autonomy or doesn’t. Some people, because of their attractiveness, can get money from others just for jiggling. It doesn’t last forever, but can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Feminism must now figure out whether they agree with a woman…

It isn’t exactly an appropriate topic for business meetings that aren’t about the administration of strip clubs.

I think the social component of VR isn’t going to really take off until Rift and Vive version 2 which had better have eye tracking. You’d be surprised how much of our emotional communications require eyeball and eyelid tracking. And it just makes sense for foveated rendering to keep our graphics processors from being…

it requires either a substance with negative mass, or an electrical way to deform spacetime. I don’t know that it’s impossible to deform spacetime electromagnetically. I don’t know that it’s possible. I am merely saying that IF we find a way to do it, then a form of warp engine is possible.

What? Douchebros at the UFC? Say it ain’t so!

Monetary success in the short term does not extrapolate to future successes if those short term gains come at the expense of brand loyalty.

How hard is it to build an ARM supervisor that can recognize commands and kill the power to an AI supercomputer, and cannot be reprogrammed except by use of an asymmetrically encrypted update file that has to be delivered via JTAG or something?

It makes you think that some people have very similar faces, and that there’s relatively little variety possible within the range of reasonable faces- that is, those that aren’t motivated by their face to live in a clocktower.

Considering the executive decisions Zuckerberg has made recently, I’d say the board is being very intelligent about this. Sometimes, the guy with the idea to build a ship is the wrong man to steer it once you’re out at sea.

I’ve seen similar things from both Facebook and Google regarding microphone use.

Also, they’ve never learned to use relays, and run all of the power for the engines and phasers right through the console, instead of just low-energy control signals.

Holodeck porn would deny the entire society access to quite a lot of people’s ambitions and contributions, I would think, just as gambling, drug addiction, and lack of access to education denies us a dozen Einsteins a century.