Well, those were his contemporaries. Kind of like Newton vs. Leibniz. I was thinking more like people who came up with an important concept first, without competition during their time.

The photoelectric effect led to technologies that used it, not the other way around. The effect is completely natural and does NOT depend on any founding technology. So I don't know where you were going with that.

Give the job to an intern. Tedium is in their job description.

Yeah. Trying to be backwards-compatible with a flawed system is a terrible way to go. It's like creating Windows 9 and making it especially compatible with programs designed for MS-DOS. It just makes no sense to do so instead of upgrading the few stragglers from MS-DOS to Windows 9.

You're right. Newton came up with it first. So tell it to him XD .

Haha, yeah, I'm sure Da Vinci's Theory of Relativity and Pythagoras's theories of photoelectricity were just waiting to be written...

But the Imperial system is NOT base 12. There are 12 inches in a foot...but there are not 12 feet in a yard. There are 3. And there are not 12 yards in a mile, there are 1760 (or 5280 feet if you prefer). There's no standard factor between two units of measurement. Whereas with metric, there is always a constant…

I approve this. Although it would be something more like "A kilogram is an X% interaction with the Higgs field around Y Higgs bosons." I'm sure different particles interact with the same field differently.

Tell that to Einstein and Galileo (or was it Copernicus?).

I was about to say they should define it i terms of Avogadro's constant, and when I went to double-check the details, I found out that's one of the proposed solutions. Looks like they're way ahead of me :P .

You won't be able to get online without memorizing every site's IP address. If you're really going to nitpick that that's not technically "off", you need to relax a bit.

I haven't had a problem with it in the many years I've been using it, and on more than one occasion it's actually saved me from some issues. If it's garbage, it's the best garbage I've ever used.

Don't have it. Was pretty sure I wouldn't. Man, I love Avast! :P

Well, you get those, and possibly a Nobel prize. But it's also the best part of science!

BWAHAHAHA! I love it!

Oh, great. Out of curiosity, I looked up "cloaca". Now I know what ELSE that's used for. Ew. Blech. Puke.

I've seen Pet Man. That is NOT human-like. That thing moves its legs up and down, like it's marching, and can't balance unless it's moving. The one in this article moves its legs forwards and falls into its step, like real humans, and can balance even when stationary.

Double step? I don't see a double step. Just a small hesitation mid-step, but not a double step...what are you seeing?

Who said it did? He said they regain the ability to walk...

It's damn close. It's just a bit slower than a normal walk, but the gait itself is identical.