I hope the pilot got his well deserved blowjob from all the crew...

Earth is my favorite planet.

And yet still I don't have a flying car...

That's true. Though we are finding some numbers in that denominator tend to grow smaller. For instance, we have discovered that potentially suitable planets are probably quite abundant.

on second picture, when glycerol/water mix lands on water droplet @22.5ms I see a bird...

I am pretty sure that life is out there somewhere, but I find the assumption that life on other planets will evolve into an intelligent, curious, social species that has both the means and desire to seek us out and communicate with us to be, um, a bit self centered? Life survives. That's about it. Maybe, someday, we…

And the Fox News headline will read "Bin Laden builds tower for Sauron on our Earth!"

Please some "freedom lover" explain to me with actual figures and logical arguments how this is good for humanity.

Ya I'm sure NASA engineers didn't put anything thought into this..

You're in Montreal. You can still just walk in the snow to the strip clubs. No need to drive.

Everyone deserves representation. Republicans represent idiots.

Certainly some interesting points. It appears to leave the voters with very little to no control.

Apparently, it is the expectation that people will be able to control their own destinies without obvious stupidity becoming the standard that has made voting obsolete.

But does our voting and electoral system truly reflect our position on issues, anyway?

There were more selling points to the Model S and the previous model roadster than just being electric. The cars are fast. As in scorching fast. I drove a Model S at an event last year and it made any other car I've driven seriously feel obsolete. The car goes from sitting still to instant torque and that sensation is…

while our new friend HIP 116454b may not be the habitable planet so many of us hoped for

Why??? I want to hear this.

"if 1% of intelligent life survives long enough to become a potentially galaxy-colonizing Type III Civilization, our calculations above suggest that there should be at least 1,000 Type III Civilizations in our galaxy alone"