There’s this thing called “gravity assist” that can actually get you going faster. Maybe you should read up on it.

He’s talking about a trip to Alpha Centauri. The sun’s gravity is not going to make any difference for most of the trip. In the initial part, it can help. See “gravity assist”.

900,000 mph to 1.8 mph

There’s no need to “keep the pace”. In space, once you reach that speed, unless you approach something massive, you keep going at that speed without expending any energy. There’s no air resistance and no rolling resistance to slow you down.

Actually, standard fare for members of this profession.

nasty over-sized rats with tiny creepy human hands

Damn, came here to say exactly that.

I like how you have so much faith in the government. The innocence is so sweet.

I used a Sony XZ2 Compact as my only phone for the last 2 weeks while traveling. Another person has a Pixel 2 (not XL). Before that I was using a OnePlus 3T (doesn’t have all LTE bands in Asia). My thoughts:

Display on mine looks great. Doesn’t have the dark blacks of AMOLED on my other phone, but colors are vibrant. Not sure what’s going on with that photo.

As long as the ceiling is not damaged and is not disturbed, you should be safe.

By “old construction material”, if you include popcorn ceiling, the average person is very likely to encounter them.

This should have been the obvious answer from the start, thank you!

In that case, just program the robot arm to wave generally over the page to indicate Waldo is over there somewhere :D

Why not glue the other fingers out of the way so that only the index finger is extended?

And TouchWiz. Give me an Android One Galaxy S and see me throw money at you, Samsung.

I hereby dub thee the Samsung Cauldron.

If you’re like most people, you’re sleeping sitting up on a plane, so there’s really no need getting this one trick pony just for flying. Get a pair of Bose, Sony, or something cheaper instead and you can use it both for noise cancellation as well as headphones. I don’t know about the performance of this one, but I…

I saw the movie. Maybe we should just leave the dust there.

Some people on Twitter immediately began speculating that Musk may have wandered into a potential regulatory violation with his tweet