Well, it was obviously meant as a joke. Maybe we should be modeling these new Massive Penetrators after N. Korea's Taipodong missiles....

No mention of the hazard posed by the resultant potentially explosive belches....

I'm going to hold off on buying something like this until it includes multiple extensible arms with elegantly white-gloved robotic hands that pamper and powder my ass like the primmest British butler (Buttler?), then reach up to give me a smooth-as-glass shave with a straight razor.

He's clearly reaching for the little envelope that is given to all IMP-EXP executives, labeled "OPEN ONLY IN CASE OF EXTREMELY PATHETIC EMERGENCY." It'll be okay...the envelope will tell him what to do...

I've often thought it would be cool to have a vast enough storage capacity to archive video of literally every second of my day - it would be like Timeline on steroids, or having an unerring, instantly addressable eidetic memory. The more I thought about it though, the more it became apparent - as you eloquently point…

Along the same lines, they should design nuclear power plants' cooling towers to look like nipples...

It's a zoom of a Mandelbrot fractal — The illusion of movement must be mostly or entirely due to the color palette..

If I understand this right, in order to create the dots (pixels, whatever), the lasers are ionizing the air at their focus, which takes a pretty damn powerful beam.. Either I'm misunderstanding how it works, that enclosure is filled with something other than air, or I wouldn't want this thing in my living room...

Poor Russians; at least there's no dog on this one. I hope they get it working, anyway, and certainly hope we have better luck with Curiosity...

I once experienced this effect firsthand (thankfully) after spilling a crucible of liquid nitrogen on my crotch.

S'cool...but not *cold* fusion, surely. I would imagine you get some pretty high temperatures when you slam one thing into another thing at over 2 million miles per hour.