it's the FINAL COUNTDOWN! dee da la deeee doooo dee le da dee doo doo

It's called Poe's Law or Poe's Corollary, depending on which side of it you're on.

umm... physics.

Fair enough. That's been a bad habit of mine since college.

I actually clicked through to the linked article in Nature, and it also says "degrees". The other linked giz article about the previous hottest man made temperature is listed in Fahrenheit.

5.5 trillion degrees in what kind of degrees? C? F? K?

"If in fact you do make contact with Martians, please tell me know right away."

Came here to say the same thing. This is in no way a drone. While it may have some stabilization SW running, it's not autonomous, has no internal sensors that I can tell, and it doesn't report back any information. TOY. not drone.

We need Etymology-Man!

Man. Science is AWESOME.

" Before unceremoniously turning off the gas, they lit up the torch that was used by Mr. Playfoot to relit the cauldron this morning."

um, he said Bacon Rolex, which is a watch, worn on the wrist. I imagine it would be pretty popular with the animals too, which is why it would get you bit.

*Chronograph, not chronometer. But yes, it's a terribly designed WATCH.

Why to these designers insist on using chronograph movements and completely neglecting to make them readable? It's absolutely asinine to have a chrono with no markers on the outer bezel or subdials.