@ernie.: It makes the bus come. Invariably, the second you light a cigarette while waiting for the bus, it arrives.

@corpore-metal: You're no fun at all.

@Cliff Hudson: The article says it was a thought experiment.

Or... the producers realize their Katie Holmes film is not so hot, leak the exodus rumor to the press, then deny it and claim it's an attack on Katie Holmes, ensuring the film gets notice.

@RenRen: Sort of a proactive War of the Worlds.

@Alehkhs: If it is as a resource, it doesn't make sense. There's tons of water ice in the kuiper belt and you can collect it without having to fight anyone.

@Ben Boyle: That would be the slowest tablet ever.

I'll still be stuck here in L.A.

His nose doubled in size due to the Cylon Nasal Attack Force.

Oh boy! Free sugar water!

When I was a kid, I loved Basil Wolverton's crazy, grotesque illustrations in Mad and Plop, so I was excited when I saw a reprint of a cartoon he did called Spacehawk. Sadly, it was standard pulp crap.

Infamous means 'having an extremely bad or evil reputation.'

@Totenglocke42: Of course they still require pressure. They just require a whole lot less pressure than a keyboard. You can just barely touch them and they register a response. That's how capacitive touchscreens work, there just needs to be contact between the skin and the screen.

@Totenglocke42: Yeah, think I'll trust my dad being able to use e-mail again for the first time in 5 years over your opinion, thanks.

@jezzarisky: I noticed.

@Totenglocke42: No it doesn't. He can brush his fingers against the keys on an iPad without putting any pressure on them. He can't do that with a keyboard. Until you get debilitating arthritis in your fingers, maybe you shouldn't just assume things.

@toofuairi: My boy?

Apparently you can't be pregnant and go up to the space station either! The nerve!

@Soule: Only problem with the Kindle is that a lot of textbooks are a. In color and b. In PDF form. The kindle can't do the former and is piss poor at doing the latter.