The Whole-Milk-y Way?

Black holes and spin kind of puzzle me, since you'd think we wouldn't be able to observe them spinning at all, what with time seeming to stop at the event horizon. oO

A real diamond in the 'roughage', one might say!

I'm not quite sure how you'd pull off the sheer horror of something as esoteric as the Ice Giant, though...

You beat me to it. I love to plug that book every time one of these 'horrible parasite' threads pop up here. They aren't as bad (well, not all of them) as everyone thinks, and they make up far more of the world's ecosystem than most people, biologists included, seem to realize.

@King of Madness!: Nice of them to throw 'furry' in there for the Internet Hate Machine to jizz themselves over. Thanks Kotaku. XD

I suppose I should point out that heavier isotopes of elements that we're familiar with -don't- behave chemically identically to their common cousins; their greater mass tends to alter reaction rates and things. Normally this isn't a huge problem, though in something as complicated as a human metabolism it can be…

[www.skyfactory.org] ? :)

For proton-antiproton annihilation, typically about 50% of the energy produced in the reaction is promptly lost as high-energy neutrinos, which tends to hurt efficiency even further. :)

Yeah, the Canary Islands are kind of scary, considering one of them is slowly splitting in two. That won't be a happy day for the east coast of NA when that goes. :/

Still hate the new, overdone, overcomplicated design. Performance hasn't improved; scrolling is still terrible. Please go back to the old, sleek, simple design. Please.

Isn't that a bit... young looking, for Bilbo? I mean, he was like fifty when he went romping around the countryside with the dwarves.

Well, admittedly, there are a few un-thought-out details in my plan... I'm sure it'll all work out!

I've long had this little fantasy of engineering some sort of symbiotic, photosynthetic organism that would grow in patterns in human skin. Because let's face it, stripeless, spotless, unpatterened humans are just -boring-...

Not that I'm biased toward foxes or anything (IGNORE MY ICON IT MEANS NOTHING) but I imagine they ditched foxes 'cause wolves were likely a lot more useful to have around. :)

Still not liking the new layout at all, with its new high overhead and slow scrolling, even with the ersatz 'blog view' approximation of the old site available. Also, why am I getting redirected to ca.io9.com? How long should I expect it to be until I start seeing "This content not available in your region" messages…

There was nothing radical about the fox domestication experiments in Russia, though. It was just simple selective breeding, IIRC.

I still want to see Kingdom Come done as a feature film, in CG made to look like the art style from the graphic novels.