Ah, I see. I can definitely sympathize, as it sounds like what would have happened to me had I even pursued it. Kudos to you for getting that far! Nice to get a glimpse of the road not traveled. And I think enlightening our next generation of the best and brightest is better than competing in the pointless rat races…

Rectum? I barely knew 'em! :P

Out of curiousity, what stopped you from becoming an astrophysicist? It is a field I very much fancy, but feel too old to indulge in. I would need more schooling than I have time I suspect. Unless we cure aging.

That'd be the Z-rays permeating your grey matter, programming you to serve the biodreads! :P

Laser Tag had a pretty kick ass cartoon series too! Something about an laser arena champion sent back in time.

right ... "asked by the church to keep regular contact" ... dude, c'mon ... you're SO totally in a cult ... sigh

..... changes to comment system .... siiiiiiiiiigh .... >.>

... wait ... Kolob ... Kobol ... Bolok ... hmmmm....

Say, think the Mormons and the Scientologists will merge or duke it out for top space cult when the time comes? They both have obscene amounts of money after all. Not really sure who would win. Anyone?

Oh good! I was worried the lack of pictures would befuddle you.

Dude! Get one of them cyber hearts! By the time you need one, they will have them. You'll beat the family history, and possibly save a family by lifting a bus off their car!

Nuh uh!!!! YOU'RE a stupid!!! (sniffle)

No way bro! I can hold my breath for an hour! Watch me, here i go ...... (thump)

It also ruins the flow of the discussion! You see the posts all at once with no chronological relation to each other, then when you click on one, it will display the entire thread between those folks in the proper order. But then you have to click the arrow to the left to back up out of that if you want to scroll…

Because their marketing shills have to justify their paychecks.

I agree, but didn't they get hit hard past few months by FBI raids? I know there's new blood joining the ranks all the time, but by now they gotta have serious attrition in the hierarchy, no? I hope they can do something about EA though.

Aw now, chin up there friend! For AI look no further than SiRi. As to turning 150, could still happen! Medicine and diet studies are having breakthroughs every day! You might just be hitting the sweet spot where medicine begins extending our lives a little every year to the point where you might never actually die!…

"If we judge the size of them right ... " I can just see it now ... a disaster to rival any of Big Petrolium's blunders ... lol

Hear hear! We shall stand on our ringed terra firma and decry your bold claims!

Oh my god ... just when i thought you people couldnt fuck up any worse than before ... you really must hate commenters, right? I mean, you just want us to shut up, and read your articles, because you sure as hell don't make it anywhere approaching the sentiment of 'welcome, leave your thoughts here to engage in a…