We call his suit the best smoothie maker ever.

Basically there is a long series of “mile roads” that are a mile away from each other.

Perfect system

Jesus, it’s cheaper to manufacture robots than hire laborers in CHINA?! Man, I wonder if my local community college has “Robot Maintenance Certification” as one of its options?

that Pluto is just an 8-bit figment

Nazi base camp?

That’s my concern. SW’s biggest problems (imo) have come from them trying to make things deliberately cute (i.e. marketable), see, Ewoks and Jar-jar. Let BB prove himself in the battle against the dark side before we all throw our money at it.

Two of the most destructive species of invasive termites are joining forces in Florida.

Simple answer is no.

Agreed. Even if climate problems are better than we thought, we should continue to strive to improve the situation. "Leave the campground better than you found it". We've definitely got some catching up to do in that regard.

There weren't a ton of people getting rich off of global freezing. It was a flurry of articles, but there was no global freeze business and people didn't take it seriously—it was really a way to discuss science—back when conservatives believed in science because it was going to give us our edge over the Soviets.

Well, I'm not sure an increase in tropical diseases would be all that OK for humanity.

Why the fuck would you speak to a mathematician about volumes of water? That's a physics problem.

No. Sorry, but as a relic of the '70s, the whole earth chilling thing wasn't about it actually happening, but the pop-culture reaction to the scientific studies that showed that ice ages could come on rapidly—50 years instead of thousands of years—that the transformation wasn't gradual.

Whether it's worse than we thought, or better than we thought, I don't think there's anything wrong with making our planet "healthier". Such thought patterns carry over into other areas of life, and improve humanity.

"The smart people will never be on our side." - Rick Santorum

the Stupid Party

Its melting will cause in estimated 10-foot rise in sea levels over the next few centuries.

Had a guy tell me today to ask myself if the ice cubes in my drink melt, does the drink spill over the edge of the glass.