@JonnyP: "In the same vein, I'd like to congratulate Mr.JonnyP for selflessly and constantly helping tiny multi-racial war orphans with every minute of every hour of every one of his days. He's sacrificed all personal happiness, all free choice in his quest to serve others and lead a life of ultimate principle.

@Smeagol92055: And then a Vogon Bulldozer accidentally plows them both into comic dust.

@johnnyabnormal: Well there's your problem right there, thanks to the cold war propaganda everyone demonizes socialism as something horrible.

@Sunwind: Basically it goes something like this:

@SG-17: Yup, the skin is strong enough to not rupture, but it will stretch as far as it can go since the pressure inside your body is considerable higher than the outside vacuum.

@johnnyabnormal: I was pulling from the CIA fact book too actually, just not the online edition.

@johnnyabnormal: And you might want to explain why Japan has the second lowest child mortality rate on the entire planet.

@FrankN.Stein: Rofl.

@johnnyabnormal: And to think that before hospitals we had an 50% percent infant mortality rate.

If you are getting yourself an eBook reader you might also want to check out Calibre:

@metronome49: Well all of the functionality is within Chrome (The Browser), but in order to be independent of other companies operating systems they had to make a version of the browser that can act as a stand-alone install on computers without an OS already installed.

I love speculative biology, now I know what to do this afternoon.

@Bubblemint: Weird, I can see it just fine and I'm in Norway.

Float like a toy butterfly, sting like a robot!

@FrankTheHLYTank: Oh, yeah I remember now. I vaguely remembered it having something to do with "bright" in its name.

@FrankTheHLYTank: I tink the one with the metal cable inside it is called Lumaloop.

@kujel:

@peon47: "Survival of the fittest." was coined by a contemporary newspaper to mock Darwin.

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Japanese sweat less than most Caucasians. When I was in Japan I noticed that after soccer practice and other such after-school club activities almost no one bothered to shower (except me of course).

@ElimGarak: Yup, part of why things like Akihabara works so well is because the population density in Tokyo is completely insane.