If you need a fat guy with a bad back and a gimpy knee.....

You want inexplicable Morgan Freeman? Try this:

I think you are talking more about contributing factors where the article seems to be going more for a root cause. At that time (most) information came from the pulpit to the people so the church was the main body disseminating info.

I can't help but picture Adam and Jamie doing MythBusters in the 1830s...

or:

Speeds in excess of C limits. If an imaginary object is moving at 100.1% of C it is supposed to start traveling in reverse time, right?. Putting aside the energy requirements and infinities, how fast would you be traveling in reverse time? How would that scale with further speed increases if, say you increased speed…

Seems like a virtual form of DNA computing...

Now I'll never know how a clitoris works....

It still looks like shit. So, no.

This is the only Kirov ship that should be built:

The age vs new battlefield tech reasoning is absolutely the correct assessment to use if our enemies actually had said new tech. but since our current enemies seem to be, technologically speaking:

Everytime I see one of these I shake the monitors on my desk.....

Make it interesting and attach rotating knives.

Or you attach it to two hand straps and use it as a swing to relax even more on your commute....

Lol Bluetooth. It needs a full hand print scanner, retinal scanner, and DNA lock...

Does the fan come in a female version?

It's not the sliding as an adult that is the problem, it's the getting back up off the floor...

Why did the horse cross the road?

Looks like a Xenomorph/KFC DoubleDown hybrid...