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A candle and an acoustic guitar. The candle is optional

Meh, I think they said on Earth, but I don't care enough to watch it again

No, I meant the purpose of what you said was to undermine the USSR, and that "they got it to collapse", with emphasis on the ""

Even the guy who wrote the synopsis wasn't paying any attention to the plot. According to the first guy who speaks, the bad guys had killed 14 billions already in the first 48 hours. I refuse to discuss everything else that doesn't make sense, since it's just a fucking porn movie

I understand, I really do, because of things like this picture (those are pregnant), and if I'm going to limit myself to a couple times a week, I could afford to eat exclusively free-range meat, for example. But I'm not going to force anyone to eat anything, and if I can compromise, so can my partner. Otherwise, well,…

No idea, I swiched from Physics myself a while ago, I didn't get to particle Physics and I'm already rusting, my only takeaway from it is a heavy reliance on the scientific method and not seeing almost anything as really weird. Still, "space-time itself", whatever that means, doesn't sound like something with mass,…

You probably know already that string theory (or some flavors of it) require a lot more dimensions to work (11, I think), but the world is supposed to be very flat in those directions. Think of it as a sheet of paper. Sure, if you look close enough it's three-dimensional, but for most purposes you can just assume it's…

just how much faster is it than a regular 2,5'' SATA, 5200 rpm is it? how much of a performance hit does the "reading the system" cause in the system? Do you have a link to any benchmark?

High change speed would actually cause the infection to spread less. Compare AIDS and Ebola for example. Now, try to come up with a scenario where this sickness can spread from, say, Africa, to another continent. How fast should it spread in order to not having every fucking army in the Middle East waiting to pick the…

High change speed would actually cause the infection to spread less. Compare AIDS and Ebola for example. Now, try to come up with a scenario where this sickness can spread from, say, Africa, to another continent. How fast should it spread in order to not having every fucking army in the Middle East waiting to pick the…

fun fact: io9 stopped reviewing or recommending Haven pretty much the same week it got good (and the second season has been consistently good)

Do Americans usually have kids with their high-school partners? I know it's not very usual in Europe, at least not on purpose.

Go to a different bar every night and hit on the least attractive woman you see (poor judgement is a plus). Repeat for about ten years.

If one donor is chosen time after time again because he's really healthy, has no family history of any genetic predisposition to any illness, has a high IQ and whatever those banks select from, I don't see that getting his sperm instead of a worse one isn't the point for the recipient. If he's chosen without being so…

Don't sperm banks screen for genetic conditions?

New (realistic) energy ideas are hard to come with because Thermodynamics is a bitch, so it takes a whole lot of money to pay enough bright people to have enough good ideas that some of them pan out.

Every thing has its place. If the purpose of a project is "to develop a new method of doing X more efficiently than the ones we're using now" that's the place to invent new awesome ideas that may or may not work. If the purpose is "to put a new Y in the market", that's not.

But that's the de facto standard interpretation. They can have preference, since some states are more likely than other, but the most you can do without collapsing them is how more likely they are to be in one. Then as soon as you start talking about big and slow things, they start behaving classically, and there…

New nutrition research points to opposite direction to all we though we knew until now?