They use golden eagles to hunt wolves in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. While it turns out that the eagles don't actually pick the wolves up (it seems that they use something more like a kind of Vulcan nerve-pinch to immobilize them until the hunter can get there), they are nevertheless some seriously bad-ass birds.

Yeah, but you still need them to _think_ that you have 75,597 more bombs where those came from.

I saw "Total Recall" on a seatback LCD in an aircraft, which rendered it even darker and rather more confusing, due to image quality issues. I kept asking myself "Wait, which super-hot brunette is this? Is this the nasty one, or the nice one?"

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem#Fermat.27s_conjecture

"... I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of Fermat's Conjecture, which this pigeon is too narrow to contain."

8. The numbers are huge.

"Some people think that we should just sit back and do nothing while these hurricanes devastate the United States, kill Americans, and destroy property. Well, that's not how it's going to be during my administration. When foreign terrorists struck at the USA, we acted. We didn't allow ourselves to be talked out of…

One small crap for a man ...

One of these things is not like the other. You can disbelieve in the Moon landings and the Higgs boson all you want, and nothing too bad will happen (although you may get punched by Buzz Aldrin). When you start deciding that vaccinations are a hoax and act accordingly, people get sick and die.

I intend to refer to this movie as "Star Trek: The Wrath of Cumb" until someone stops me by force.

Ocean acidification, food-chain collapse, deforestation, colony-collapse disorder, white-nose syndrome, fracking, anti-science know-nothing politicians and voters, rising religious fundamentalism, chytridiomycosis, a former nuclear power governed by a hybrid government composed of criminal/corporate/secret…

Seems like a lot of people's lives, but with better-quality VR.

Contusion Penis? I think I used to own their first two albums ...

As one of my favorite tweets put it:

The real killer subsequently fled to the Islets of Langerhans in an attempt to evade justice.

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

Tip for dieters: weigh yourselves at night.

"Too long, my brothers, we have suffered the depredations of the ospreys. Are we going to let these birds invade our watery kingdom, snatch and devour our fellow fish? I think not. We shall have our revenge. Listen closely ..."

As a friend put it:

All these arguments can be essentially reduced to "We have no idea how science works, don't try to explain, our minds are made up, we can't hear you, la la la la."