I'm not a scientist, but many of you with your excellent comments and back and forth have made this educational and comprehensible to me. Thanks everyone.

Take away lights and power, and we'd all be Neolithic.

would it be too much to ask to die in landscape mode?

Really? They "actually hired Stanford Engineers"? To "make the formula in the first place"? Wow. Wait, that's a formula any mathematics major could have figured out from anywhere. Fuck Stanford and fuck starfucking Stanford.

"ROAD TO PAVE? ARE YOU SAYING IM OLD OR A BLUE COLLAR WORKER BECAUSE OF MY ALL CAPS? IM NEITHER YOU SNOTTY LITTLE BLOGGER POSER FUCK. "

FUCKING PUSSIES.

LET. THEM. FUCK.

Thank you, Dale Hansen, for shattering my own stereotype of Texas. I guess they're not all backwards ass country fucks. I'm still waiting on something smart to come out of Florida.

I'm a pedantic professional and a Puritan when it comes to alcohol. All I could think of after reading this article is "Just smoke weed, dude."

A year later, still the coolest article ever.

Aw shit...I'm in.

I'm 50 years old. I'll never forget where I was shitting myself when Kennedy was shot.

i hate all humans right now. granted, its an emotional reaction. i mean, these are hobbit-folk for fucksake.

Oh hell no.

Yes, but none of the participants are Kaiser, King of the Doxies.

Um...most countries look small compared to a whole continent. I'm missing something here. Oh wait, we are supposed to say "wow, when you put them Africans all together, them should have as much value as This Many countries." Similarly, my kid, around age 3, pointed at the toilet bowl and said "look in there what I…

Is +1 billion a thing? If so, then +1 Billion.

Is +1 Billion a thing? If so, +1 Billion.

I have to say that I deliberately avoided all spoilers, and avoided all fan geekery before seeing the movie. And you know what? The Khan reveal was pretty cool. So, guys and gals and geeks, do yourself a solid and don't read TOOO much about the movie before seeing it. Is it the best movie ever? No. Most of the…