Whole semesters? Oh my. ;)

My fault too, for the common mistake of assuming everyone will immediately understand the tone of voice, even without all the usual cues. :)

There was a certain amount of sarcasm inherent in that statement. But honestly, if they're rich enough and dumb enough that your paltry few thousand won't impact their bottom line, I don't see any harm in it.

You're just jealous you didn't think of it first, considering if they sell out they'll be making over 5mil a year.

Yikes. and cool, too. But yikes first.

...We actually do also have a sense of direction. We can, at least the older ones of us, generally tell north from south.

...no, soldiers do that because it's *fun*. "Because it might happen in war!" is the excuse they give command after they seriously broke some shit. Command lets them get away with it because no mater what the original motivation, the excuse is valid.

...It got better.

I think I'm gonna be sick.

...The dude in that painting looks like Dean Stockwell in his younger days about to fall over sideways off the horse. Protip: when the horse is falling right, you lean left to keep your seat.

There is no level of snagging that a soldier in the field is not going to end up using 100-mile-an-hour tape to cover. Which means no matter what they do, they'd better plan on soldiers sticking stuff to their exoskeletons. And it better be waterproof. Because the minute you hand something like that to a redneck, it…

1) The vagus nerve stimulator was predicted by Lois Bujold. And I'm starting to get tired of listing the stuff she predicted.

If it's not, as everyone below seems to think, a bit of viral marketing - or a rock (eminently possible) or other natural occurrence - then most likely it's meant to explore the ocean bottom. Possibly a robot, like a roomba, only meant to map the bottom of the sea for stuff. Like, say, treasure. Alternately it could…

Sooo, only some sub-saharan folks are true homo sapiens; we're all really homo sapanderthals, or homo neanderthiens.

It'll be tough for Captain America *not* to be better than Thor, honestly.

I was going more for "...have sex with anything that'll hold still long enough". Hey, does this mean we're all not entirely human?

Still no love for Sandman?

Humanity's yearbook says: "Species most likely to..."

+1 on the ship shaped like a cockroach. It's what everyone thinks of when they hear poor Kafka's name.

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