Finally! No we just need flying cars and robot butlers and the future we were promised is finally here.

Watching it onscreen kind of glamorized and tolerable, with people defending its use?

She doesn't have any magic lie detector powers whatsoever, when she said "I can tell when people lie" she meant it like the regular human "I'm good at telling when people lie" expression.

The king can do as he likes!

Haha, I can't imagine how WTF that scene was if you haven't read the books XD

Fun fact: Among other things honey can be used to prevent infections by covering the wound by a thin layer. It works for the same reason honey is the only food that can be kept at room temperature for several thousand years without going bad, any bacteria that tries to enter it are killed by having all their moisture…

Like I mentioned on the #Observationdeck this episode reminded me of Ghost Story from the Dresden Files, funny seeing things from the other side of the fence as it were. (I'm a sucker for worldbuilding)

Someone already did you one better, they designed a flying wind turbine where the props actually provide the lift while generating power at the same time.

Actually, the reason they are rebooting the Spider-Man movie franchise is because Marvel sold the movie rights, and in the contract it states that if Sony doesn't make any new movies in the franchise every X years the movie rights revert back to Marvel.

Obviously this is the Alien equivalent of SETI/CETI trying to communicate with us.

*Cries manly tears of manly manliness*

Copypasta from one of my comments further down:

You can tag stuff by hitting T when viewing an article, the Greasemonkey script has an Customise option if you hover over "Subscriptions" in the left sidebar and press the dropdown arrow.

It's the difference between buying a Newspaper at a store and subscribing to a Newspaper so it's delivered to your door every morning.

A dyson sphere as proposed by Mr. Dyson was a swarm of orbiting satellites (or stationary statites in newer improved designs) and would be perfectly stable as the satelites/statites could use orbital solar sails for course correction.

Afaik removing Mercury would actually making the rest of the solar system more stable, so it would actually be beneficial to get rid of it.

A solution to the whole "no sun for earth" problem is to make each individual unit in the dyson swarm a stationary statite instead of an orbiting satelite. Statites are basically solar sails where the gravitational pull from the sun is perfectly balanced by the pushing force exerted on the solar sail.

If you built a Dyson sphere within Mercurys orbit you could build the entire thing from just using the mass of Mercury, and still have half the planet left over when you're done.

Afaik removing Mercury will actually stabilize the orbits of the remaining planets, making the solar system more stable than it currently is.

Building a Ringworld is actually physically impossible, there is no material whatsoever that will ever enable us to build one. It would also be inherently gravitationally unstable, if the sun got even a millimeter off center in any direction it would create stronger gravitational pull on that side of the ring and pull…