Too cute. Don't care.

So what I'm hearing is, we need to teach some cybernetic strawberry jam how to operate the controls and radio of an interstellar craft, and turn those thunderwells back on! It worked for Kal-El on General Zod, maybe TOO well.

Somebody clearly isn't familiar with the term "Thunder Well." Which is probably the coolest name in all of both nuclear physics AND aeronautics/orbital flight.

This, EXACTLY, is what is being missed by this debate. Listening for electromagnetic radiation communication could be the interstellar equivalent of holding a tin can with a string to our ear, and wondering why we aren't getting any cell phone reception. How about let's come back to the FP when we understand dark…

You could even fly over your cats in orbit, and I bet they wouldn't know you were up there. Stupid cats.

I wanna see a hot drill and submersible on Europa. I'm 35. Think I have a chance?

Paying for the offense of being taller than average was properly dealt with back when Theseus fit that bastard Procrustes to his own iron bed. Google it if you're rusty on your greek mythology, but a sufficient summary would be "don't torture giant people, or else."

Too wide for a seat? Sure, pay extra for it. Femurs within a standard deviation above average? Not my fault.

I'm 6'4, and every seat in front of me is a non-reclining seat. Mostly because I always put my hand on the headrest in front of me as soon as my neighbor in front reaches for the knee-slam switch, and I'm always bigger than they are. They usually push back 3-5 times, don't go anywhere, look around confused a bit, and…

This thread may need to be cross-linked over to the Jalopnik boys for further investigation.

"Someone in a Ferrari tried to steal a generator" is NOT an anecdote where visualization just happens. You're gonna need to hash the details of that out a bit.

Where physically were you when you came up with po-polio? Desk? Shower? Starbucks line? I need to start hanging out there. This is right in the wheelhouse of what I consider a perfect joke.

I had aspirations of being the first astronaut dentist... but of course Col. Chris Hadfield stole my thunder in orbital oral health promotion. I should have seen this coming.

Can somebody identify the dome-shaped object being towed by that flatbed on the left, and what about it was so critical to guard that the driver of the pickup never got out of his vehicle and looked like he wanted to try and drive through the wreckage (like the contractor van did)?

Peter Benchley is really sorry about the whole shark extinction level event thing. Steven Spielberg, not so much.

Bostonian here. Life long Red Sox fan. Remember the name Victoria Snelgrove? I do. She was a total stranger, and I'll carry it until I die. Boston PD fatally shot her in the brain with a pepper spray ball fired through her eye. A ball only fired because the PD had recently acquired crowd-control paintball guns,…

There are people who don't remember the 1970s even though they were THERE. Always be prepared for disappointment when asking historical awareness questions.

The fact that this is in German makes it MUCH more terrifying. Swiss aren't in the EU! Can't I just... never, ever go back?

Is this true? I vacationed there last summer and rented a BMW to drive from Geneva down to Zermatt and over to Lugano. That country has some serious downhill straightaways! Nobody warned me about anything and I never got pulled over, but I DO have a vivid memory of one highway traffic camera flash. I returned the…

28 Days Later. Ton of bricks, that movie. Ton of bricks.