I wonder if the answer to this conundrum is going to have something to do with the two experimental devices being anchored to a rotating planet. Because nothing on earth is really in an inertial reference frame. Maybe there's a subtle spacetime... complication(?) associated with the rotation of the Earth that's never…

The thing about the Matrix is that they did it to make a clear visual distinction between one world and the other. Matrix is green, reality's blue, and the construct program is white. In DX, there's just one world, one perspective, and one character. Now, if somebody made a story-driven first-person game with multiple…

The "Infinitesimally Faster Than Light Drive" isn't a very exciting concept for a science fiction story, is it? The difference is so slight it has to be experimental error.

I liked this game (got it used about three months back), and I even liked the DLC side story with Pigsy and Truffles (It was funnier, but the gameplay was too different, it felt like a different game and I wanted more of the first one). That said...

Different generations, because I'm reminded of "Strange Days" (released 12 years later in 95), which has the same technology as its premise. But in both movies, the technology takes brain signal input and translates it into brain signal output. Presumably that's easier than taking brain signal input and making video,…

Hot air has a much lower lifting capacity per volume, so that 800,000 cf monster would need to be five million or so cf. Solar panels running a heater would be far less efficient than simply painting the envelope black and relying on direct heat. It wouldn't be hot enough anyway, the ratio of skin area to volume is…

I like the concept of the large-format non-portable tablet for a wide variety of creative and productivity uses, but there needs to be good quality desktop-level software that can take advantage of the intuitive interface. A good multitouch interface is a lot different than a good mouse and keyboard interface, so…

It's made by Siemens. Ach... mein... gott.

They must not have liked him taking the piss out of their narration and/or their audience.

They do, actually. The mirrors turn all day long so as to reflect the sun onto the central heat collector. They don't face the sun directly, but they do track it to keep the angle halfway between the sun and the tower.

I'm glad I wasn't the first to go there.

It's neutral, just like carbonating a soda. It's being used as a foaming agent, just a non-flammable fill gas. No net gain, no net loss of atmospheric CO2. The problem we have now is that every time CO2 is mentioned in an article, the impact on the atmosphere needs to be mentioned up front so the comment thread…

I'm not sure we've ever made anything more poisonous on purpose that we still intended to eat; the metabolism and the basic chemistry of life is so alike in all animals, how can we be sure it reliably kills insects but doesn't harm humans? Will companies risk compromising trade secrets to be transparent about safety?…

Looks like it's dependent on that nifty Android device interface they showed off this year. Apple doesn't allow lower-level hardware access like that.

I was so mad when they pulled Cosmos off Netflix, Hulu's ads are always so tone-breaking

How is removing the red dot supposed to make the photographer safer? Lowered visibility? Makes thieves guess that the camera is more valuable than a normal DSLR that they'd probably try to steal anyway?

That thing blows a mist of cold water, and he wanted cold air. An important distinction if the reason you need to keep cool is being stuck in clothes you don;t want to sweat in or get wet, like your wedding tux/dress or a business suit.

Natural medicine and homeopathy aren't the same thing. If you mean that using cottonseed oil in its current form is effective due to its chemistry, then that would be a natural medicine. If you are saying that if you dissolve cottonseed oil in water (how?) in a ratio so small that you're lucky to find a single fatty…