I assumed "anytime soon" would mean a lot less than a few billion years, and since the original poster said "Sadly, the 21st century will be looked by historians as the century EVERYTHING changed" I think it's safe to say that he wasn't talking about such long timescales either (and of course the article isn't either).

It assumes we'll ALWAYS HAVE UNLIMITED energy resources with with to run those servers.

I don't think this is really a mistake. I mean, there are a near-infinite number of possible futures from any divergence point, and any specific individuals the author describes in their story are only going to occur in an astronomically small fraction of the futures of that point in history. A character who also…

Disturbing but probably more ethical than the current system...although I don't think I could support it unless the part of the brain above the brainstem was actually removed (as with the original proposal of cutting off the heads entirely) rather than just "separated" from the brain stem, because in the second case…

But see my earlier comment about the fact that the previous Newtonian theory still is a correct limit of the new relativistic theory. No physicists are claiming that the Standard Model of particle physics (which predicts Higgs) is supposed to be the final "truth with a capital T" either, but most likely any deeper…

Faux Rich was presumably talking about Eddington's experimental confirmation of Einstein's prediction about the bending of starlight by the son's gravity, where Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts twice the deflection angle that would be predicted by Newtonian gravity.

"Newton's theory of gravitation was held as truth for centuries until Albert E came along."

The name "God particle" was invented by the physicists Leon Lederman for basically humorous reasons involving an extended riff on the "tower of Babel" story in the Bible. It obviously plays an important role in the Standard Model of particle physics, but I don't see why the search for this particle is any more of a…

100 feet? According to this page (in the paragraph that starts "By the way"), "As for stalactites, the Bulletin of the National Speleological Society (37: p.21, 1975) gave their observed growth rates as ranging from 0.1 to 10 centimeters per thousand years." It also mentions that tropical areas with warmer…

Hmm, I love things like Videodrome and David Lynch movies, but even if their "story" is hard to make rational sense of, those movies aren't repetitive—a lot of different weird things happen over the course of the movie, giving a sense that you're seeing an unfolding story even if it's more like a dream-story than a…

And since that site just gives you a weird popup thing when you try to look at a page, here are the individual pages: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4.

Looking forward to this, seems weird and trippy and Dharma-Initiative-esque. Also, the psychologist looks like an evil Carl Sagan.

Peter Bagge did an awesome comic about Jar Jar as "just another politician", see here for all 4 pages.

The administration of kykeon, a peasant drink consisting of barley and the common cooking herb pennyroyal, is a subject of controversy for modern historians, as the kykeon served near the end of the journey likely contained a psychoactive ingredient. Ergot, a parasite that grows on barley, emits ergometrine and…

Was she a "terrorist" in the sense of attacking civilians? I thought she was more of a guerilla fighter against the Cardassians, like Red Dawn on Bajor.

hahaha good job sir or madam

Because Danny DeVito is known for his fanatic commitment to artistic integrity?

"Other than the fact that they disappeared, there is no evidence that Neanderthals were any less fit as hunter-gatherers of the late Pleistocene than any other human ancestor living at that time"

speaking of which, it's kind of sad that DeVito agreed to do this, but I guess it must be a good paycheck...

The estimate is that Europeans and Asians tend to have 1-4% Neanderthal ancestry thanks to interbreeding (and you can now get tested to find out your own percentage, see here)...though I imagine it's not too likely anyone today has DNA inherited from the particular Neanderthals who did these paintings (no idea how the…