@jddf: I'm sure I've heard of him somewhere... in fact, I'm not just sure, I'm HIV positive!

@Giz-Guy: Read his explanation again, he does mention why.

@sansrage: Damn, you beat me to it..

@canont2ilover: It is a bit of a stretch to say the entire planet is practically made of diamonds, but I think given enough time and energy (which the planet has in abundance) it is possible that mountains could become coated.

Not long now... think it's time to get the doomsday shelter stocked up.

@pjcard: There's a process called Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) that can be used to create synthetic diamonds, and it requires MUCH less pressure (about 27kPa) and lower temperatures (about 800 °C) to create them. Most CVD diamond is very impure, but then nobody said the diamonds on this planet were particularly…

@2 replies: I don't know about you, but I find it quite in-spire-ing...

@Systematic survival: Reference? It's from XKCD.. here's a direct link:

@cheeseycom: Here's something that might help illustrate my point a bit..

@canont2ilover: uh.. the atmosphere?

@EliteGeek: The only way the security features are of any use is if people know about them and can check for them.

@pupaboy3: How? They don't work the same way. Unless you stuck big coloured balls all over the obstacles, it wouldn't work that well..

@Dreamwriter: In its current state it doesn't do much, but it wouldn't take much to give it the ability to find new paths for itself.. I wouldn't judge it based on a single demo video.

@Mysta: Well done... have a cookie.

@LearnIIBurn: With the right software it's quite easy to do motion-tracking these days, so while there may indeed have been some rotoscoping it wasn't done frame by frame.

Am I the only one who watched this and thought 'We really need to get cracking on research into holodecks!'?

@quillaja: ..or at least a bit pissed off..

This is a movie about a man who rapes a dragon until it loves him, then immediately abandons that dragon for a better dragon

@ss3: I imagine other parts of you would end up numb if you tried to use that things gripper on yourself.. even if it did have pressure sensors, how would it know it was crushing you? (except perhaps your agonized high-pitched squealing, but I doubt it would pay much attention to that either..).. xP

@mikehart526: All that currency, gone up in smoke..