We managed to ditch the two cent and three cent pieces without the country falling apart...we can probably lose the one cent piece too.

Out of curiosity, what metric did you use to decide that Nevada is WAC champion over Boise State? (No, I"m not a BSU fan: Vandal Pride all the way) Since the conference finished in a three-way tie (with Hawai'i also finishing 7-1), I used (in my own nerdy Excel spreadsheet...) the BCS standings as the tiebreaker; BSU…

I expect most of these comments on Fox News. Lots of art hate going on today. And yes, the artisans were paid. More than a living wage. Read the article people. Gizmodo should be better than this.

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@Graviton1066: Do believe it. NASA uses the film for prospective managers to find impossibilities. As of 2007, the count was 168.

@Hello Mister Walrus: Heart for you sir.

@beewee640: For your epic takedown of the ignorant, I award you my heart. And...I don't know, pastries?

Hey, I was five in 1993 too!

@manimatr0n: You get my first heart for that post.

@CarrerCrytharis: As soon as I saw the system name I knew that joke would be made. Well played.

@hawkeye18: Helium actually is mined. As it is 'produced' by alpha decay, where radioactive elements undergo fission spontaneously, it creeps into the same caverns which contain natural gas. It rests on top, and you can only capture if you know what you're doing while mining.

How did 'slow it down 800%' become a meme so fast?

That's how we roll with 303 in Colorado. My cell is a 720 and I'll change it first chance to go back to 303 I can.

@MifuneT: We have the same problem, my friend. Curses all around.