Tadpoles are far better.

You know, the Arrow would probably have been a decent plane.

The Avrocar was one of the most amazing examples in history of engineers apparently being unable to do math. What a disastrous project - just goes to show that DoD has a long history of being suckers for snake oil.

Wow, nice redundancy!

This makes even less sense than usual.

Well, yeah, probably.

He's a crazy person, who is not particularly clever.

No, we shouldn't.

Siri is just a phenomenally primitive software agent. It's sort of interesting in a "pioneer" sort of way, but it isn't really especially useful. I don't understand why anyone cares.

Um, well, a decent chunk of human knowledge mixed well with utter BS, and probably less than half of the people on the planet, anyway. Not bad though.

Perhaps he just saw it as a way to make some easy money while hanging around with some entertaining kooks.

Reminds me of those things girls (and only girls when I was a kid) knew how to fold up that you stick your fingers in the bottom of and use for some weird fortune-telling thing.

Well, I'm a Weirdo, and I don't particularly like beer, so that fits.

Sure, he doesn't do those things, he just tries to scare stupid people for money, in the guise of "science writing".

That looks insanely warm.

Well, yeah... but all the things I think seem sensible to me. It's only after years of trial and error that I have determined that much of the world thinks I'm a crazy person.

"Time to panic?"

I don't mind the genre, and my wife loves them. I don't want to make it harder for other people to find the stuff they like.

I just wish the vampire romance novels hadn't crowded all the SF off the bookshelves at the store.

It's always nice to learn the ways that people all around the world are just as ridiculously nutso as we are here at home.