It's very uncomfortable to use the Rift with glasses. They mush into your face.

Light sabers have no guard, and will sever fingers at the slightest touch. Additionally, the blades appear to "stick" rather than slide.

Guys, the definition of Civilized / Civilization is really very simple. If you have a city (civitas) you are civilized. If you do not, you are not.

Refusing to think about or recognize the deeper meanings of things doesn't make those things stupid and shallow, it makes you stupid and shallow.

" any simulation is a set of assumptions. So there is bias in any simulation, depending on how you look at it. A lot of people thought when they played SimCity we were really biased to mass transit. It's interesting. One of the fun things is that a model like that gives you something to reflect against. In fact, when…

What was up with the fight on the bridge? Did they change fight choreographers, or something? It reminded me of Kirk's fight with the Gorn. Ugh.

This is why I always trick my cat into pressing the "A" button to accept EULAs for me. I tell ya, if Microsoft's lawyers come knocking, 'ol Patches is SCREWED.

(1:16 - why don't youtube start time codes work on this site?)

Did women get a lot bigger in 2002? I hadn't noticed. Anyway, yes I could. Or you could use a simple Google search to find them yourself. They're not hard to find. Although I don't entirely understand why you find the idea that men are, overall, significantly stronger than women so hard to believe. Male adaption for…

Those specific numbers were from this study:

That simply isn't true.

The technology for safe reentry hadn't been developed at the time of Sputnik 2. It was the second manmade object in orbit, they hadn't gotten to bringing them down, yet.

It was a dog.

Constantinople wasn't officially renamed Istanbul until the 1920's.

Given that Japan has nearly constant 9.0 earthquakes and massive tsunamis (I mean, they must. Otherwise shutting down all the nuclear reactors in the country would just be an absurd overreaction, wouldn't it?), has anyone considered replacing the nuclear power plants with some sort of Tsunami-driven power generation…