Oooo, ya' got me! Are you maybe taking this a little personally because you *are* one of those people who shoots lasers at planes for the hell of it? Well, if you want to get into a slap fight over this: what you posted above is not a spectrum. A "spectrum" implies a non-discrete, continuous set of values. You're not…

Yep.

That is deeply stupid. It's not a made up issue. First of all, there is no such thing as "the laser spectrum." Choose a wavelength and run with it... Secondly, as someone who builds high-powered laser pointers, I hate morons who laser planes. Whether it's dangerous or not (and yes, it could be for low flying small…

Whoops - I meant to post this under GreenLightG's comment, below. I find the current incarnation of Gawker's commenting system deeply confusing...

I love most of what HBO does, but...no. Part of the appeal of Star Trek is its optimistic, sanitized hokiness. I like a "gritty" sci fi show as much as the next guy, and it would be great if HBO made a "Game of Thrones in Spaaaaaace!" but not in the Star Trek mythos. It wouldn't be keeping with the spirit of the show,…

Man, why do people comment on articles they don't read? Are you so desperate to just slap some random text on the internet?

I truly hope they don't disappear anytime soon, because DVDs are still the only cheap way to archive your stuff. I burn several DVDs per month just to store images from my phone. I don't want to have to spend $10 on an 8-Gig flash drive (which I would then never be able to use again), when I could spend $0.75 on a…

Finally, a blog comment that makes me feel good about my country...

Agreed.

He's a super-right-wing, homophobic, quasi-white supremacist wackjob... http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/gallagher-is-a-paranoid-right-wing-watermelon-smashing-maniac/Content?oid=4357855

This is spectacular, and I have spent the last 24 hours doing nothing but hoping it pans out, but...I got the impression from the various things I've read about this that it would have to be powered by negative-mass exotic matter, which at the moment is purely hypothetical stuff. How could they do a proof of concept…

Biggs Hoson?

I'm not arguing for this study per se, I'm arguing against the mentality that prompts someone to whine about their taxes every single time they read about (or don't read about, in this case) a scientific study whose relevance they don't immediately recognize. You see it in posts like this more often than when Gizmodo…

Thank you! I got stuck for 5 minutes wondering how the hell 16 was supposed to be evenly divisible by 42...

He didn't even bother to read the article. Also, he doesn't seem to understand how science works. "Idiot" may be too harsh (maybe), but I get pissed off at people who instantly get livid about where .00008% of their yearly tax contribution may have gone because they - experts that they are - don't see an immediate…

Please tell me the Crown isn't funding this Darwin person's little jaunt about those islands! Good Lord sir, nobody gives a toss about some turtles on a beach! AT ALL!

Hear, hear.

That's not true, actually. I've been making these things for years, and I've done plenty of research. The idea that they were whipped around the slinger's head several times before releasing is apocryphal — it would have made it virtually impossible to hit anything, and you get very little increase in velocity. At…

So, in the "full, in-context" quote, he hedges his demonstrably false assertion that there's no scientific consensus on the cause and extent global warming. "In my completely inexpert opinion, there may be a problem. But it's not up to me! Blame the scientists, who can't really make up their minds. Until they get…

Once again life imitates art: all this terrified-sounding elderly woman needs is some Old Glory insurance. http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340