Unfortunately, that's not the case. It's estimated that half of all humans who've ever lived, have died of malaria and while sanitation have done a lot to reduce that, 1/3-1/4 of everyone alive right now will still loose their life to malaria.

Long and cylindrical doesn't equate phallic. If the head had been smoother, less balanced and didn't fit onto it's back i would agree with you. But i guess it's a matter of interpritation, in the end.

Current artificial muscles are just plastic that can contract when exposed to electricity and it's so early in it developmental stage, that it's nothing more than a proof-of-concept: It needs wall socket levels of electricity to produce a tenth of the strength in a human muscle, the plastic breaks down after ~500…

Very good article, but it seems to step around a fairly obvious solution: Why not just produce a variety of bland "human kibble" that besides being perfectly balanced nutrition-wise, but all have different textures (chewy, crunchy, bread-like, liquid, jello-like, lumpy and so on)? That way people can buy what they…

Currently, artificial hands have very little gripping strength, as the constant usage a hand goes through in a day require a lot of power if they were to have human strength.

Then i must be the ultimate streamlined worker. ^^ I work from home and i do it in my underwear... Most of the time. ^_^

I think interpreting a Xenomorph's head as a "big ol' dong" says more about the interpreter than anything.

For a guy who's last name means "happiness" in Danish, he sure is all doom and gloom. ^_^

I really think we should conserve names for planets to a later time. Because, by the most generous count of words currently known (including dead languages, false-friends, homonyms, names and so on), we only have enough words to name half of the stars in our own galaxy. Even if we stretched it out, by allowing…

R2D2 cracked me up. ^^ What a beeping gentleman, that is. ^^

You took the words right out of my mouth, in an eerily-close-to-literal sense. ^_^

Me too. Mine will be: "Cthulhuism cult ninja-pirates: Natural cloud storage, the bane of the Jedi or a solution for global warming?"

No doubt they were a though bunch, but Viking received as much and as hard training as Spartans did and those with physical deformities were pushed even further, so they could stand toe-to-toe with any Viking. And the girls received the exact training as boys did, meaning they'd have to hold their ground and stand…

You want a bigger ego boost? We once helped an early Polish tribe in a war and the Viking that stayed behind and intermarried established the Rus people, who eventually became the Russians. So Russians are just watered down Vikings. ^^

Yes, it's mostly a modern myth, but in many cases it wasn't. They did "rape-and-pillage" england like crazy until the Brittons gave up and handed over their land (York was a border town established at the time and named after the Britton word for Viking).

According to the first Christian historians that ran into the Vikings, half of all debilitating injuries were caused by sports, but none of them were considered more than an encouragement to learn to fight better by vikings. In fact, one of the legendary heroes of the post-Chritianity Viking age was paralyzed from the…

Don't make the American jealous of us. ^^ Rather not have them declare we have WMD. ^^

We most certainly are. ^^

True in many ways, but Vikings still practiced sports and tactics most Romans would shy away from.

I current own 4 history books on viking from acclaimed Scandinavian historians and i have never read a comic with vikings in it (not even Marvel's Thor).