“climatologist Peter Glacier”

A long time ago, in a Sausage Fest of a galaxy far far away...

Not Captain America, but it’ll do.

No idea, I honestly can’t remember. But good news: it’s towards the top of the results list when Google image searching “Stargate gifs”, so we’ve got that going for us.

Oh, dear! Not the dirt people!

As an undergrad geology student, I had a prof who told us a story about visiting part of the Canadian Shield. They’re out looking at some rocks, and a tourist thinks out loud, “I wonder how old these rocks are!” My prof is like, “3 billion years old”. The tourist has this look of wonder on his face and says “Wow, how…

A lot of the Chinese immigrants of the early 1900’s actually came through the process illegally (see example: Paper Sons), yet they went on to enrich the communities they eventually settled in. My grandfather came that way (he’s not the example listed), but eventually went on to fight in World War I for the US and was…

“My beats so sick, my beats so dope.. Last name Francis, first name Pope!"

I’m sure this kid is extremely intelligent, and no doubt driven as heck. However, stories like this do a disservice to the kids who don’t get fame by building fusors in their sheds, but keep their heads down, go to a top tier universities, and become tenured professors who go on to do real science to help humanity.…

At fifteen I built a water bong from a bell pepper, a jalepeño pepper and a Bic pen.

True. But it’s not hard to generate a few thousand pieces of orbiting debris in KSP!

I read this to see how it would go. I thought it would be an awkward, ill-fitting metaphor, and read on for the laughs there would inevitably be with something equating relationships to food, but in the end it turned out to be quite the comparison. I’m glad I read on

Empathy from a fellow grayed poster.

Also, why are my posts STILL pending here on io9? Shouldn’t I have been declared a non-terrorist by now? Could someone help me out?

Perhaps you should research the Catholic Church’s history on science before spouting stupid shit.

Interesting. My senior year of my physics bachelor’s degree at MichiganTech had me working with aerospace engineering grad students (actually mechanical/electrical engineering students since the school didn’t officially have an aerospace program) on Hall-effect ion engines. We were using Xenon as well as Bismuth as…

Once, an 8-top of Christians left one of those “Here’s a Tip for You!” pamphlets on my table, in lieu of a cash tip. I was sort of used to this, so I didn’t remark much, just tossed it into the bus tub with the rest of the debris, and a glower.

I once had a customer who ordered a cheeseburger with Swiss but got cheddar. When the mistake was realized, I apologized and offered her a free cookie. She replied, “Honey, if this is the worse thing to happen to be today, then I’ve got a pretty good life.” After getting bitched at by stuck up college kids and…

When thinking of which crime to commit in Mexico just get sushi and not pay.

Ares Vallis is a major outflow channel. It's thought that it may have been caused by an ice dam or an aquifer bursting in the chaos regions, which then carved the channel we can see today. It would have been a massive flow. It's unclear if it was one flow or multiple outflows over a period of time.