Exactly! Me too...

Cool chart, though the combined one at the top is confusing because of its Y-Axis, which doesn't actually correlate to the curves shown. The size of the colored area under each curve actually shows the relative probability of each cause of death.

I live in the U.S. and I had the same reaction. I guess it's a state thing - you certainly can't buy anything more than a BB gun at Walmart in Massachusetts. I guess I'm not surprised about Alabama, at least — they give you a complementary Glock-19 when you buy a Frosty at Chick-Fil-A.

I hope that other planet isn't Venus. I hate that place.

You people are pretty cynical for ostensible tech enthusiasts. We have a deep and growing understanding of molecular biology that would have been literally unthinkable fifty years ago, Moore's law gets continually extended, with quantum computing on the horizon, fusion power has huge amounts of money thrown at it and…

It depends on how accurate the model is going to be. Remember that computation happens on a physical substrate. The smallest unit of binary digital computation is the bit, represented by the power state of a transistor. If you were actually talking about a 1:1 simulation, you'd have to model every single atom in the…

"Faggot" is not tossed around casually in the North, except by homophobic assholes.

This is the first time I've ever commented on a Deadspin post, but - seriously? This many people actually didn't get that he was joking? He was making an ironic reference to the fact that there are many black players on NFL teams, which these Alabamian mouth-breathing, hateful wastes of life seem to have no problem…

Ugh.

Oh come on. It is a sad little vignette, and I liked it — especially the people at the end and their tragically dashed hope of rescuing the piano — but those guys who broke it down were just trying to get it off the sidewalk. They came with a hand-truck and garbage bags; it wasn't just a wanton act of destruction…

No amount of NDT will make me retract my statement.

Google "Coprophagia" then shut the fuck up.

Exactly this.

I don't think the problem was entitlement or immorality. The problem was that people are bad at abstraction. I would argue that the majority of the people who "stole" music via Napster would never have dreamt of pocketing a Milky Way in a 7/11. We just don't have the same reaction to something intangible, even if we…

This, yes. I can't stand when people bleat about their "work ethic," as if anyone who has difficulty putting in 20 hours of overtime per week is ruining the integrity of This Great Country. Not everyone loves their job, and not everyone is able to force themselves to wring every last ounce of energy out of their soul…

I guess you're right. S'too bad...

Sure! From a few years ago — I wonder if the fusion experiments mentioned in the article went anywhere... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/science/28xray.html

Versatile stuff...Between this, isolating graphene, and its ability to emit x-rays when unrolled, Scotch tape should be known as "the duct tape of science."