I'm in a better mood last night, and I'm sorry for my overly strong reply then.

I understood the "double" part. But double is meaningless without context. That "non-negligible chance of dying suddenly" is exactly the number that needed to be in the article for the "double" claim to have any meaning at all. But it wasn't.

Any article that mentions "doubling your risk" should also mention what the risk was in the first place to put that claim in context.

Disappointing that this contains trees (which are interesting, but are a different ball game than dinosaurs.)

"Not listening to the one guy who claims 'magical corpse particles' turn living people into corpses" is not exactly equal to "ignoring science". Even though his results (of one non-repeated experiment) were encouraging, his proposed mechanism was ridiculous, and everyone rightly saw that.

Not the most comfortable nanobots to have running through your bloodstream . . . but it'll do.

It's a made-up nonsense word.

Y2K was an actual thing, even though it had little-to-nothing to do with Unix.

I love getting unlimited free soda at bars.

Wikipedia has a page called "Abundance of the chemical elements." There's a table on the right (you have to click "show") that has a "ppb atoms" column, indicating how many out of a billion atoms would be represented by each element. And on Earth, there are 1.6 million carbon atoms, and 12 silver atoms, for every…

I've heard a great white shark can take a Betta in a fight, too. I mean, seriously.

Oh, you're right. I saw the "million" next to Sagittarius-A and got mixed up. Your number is right.

You take the mass of the black hole (17,000,000 x the mass of the sun) and divide by the volume of the event horizon (4/3)π(2 light days^3), which is .00005 kg/m^3. 1 atmosphere of pressure is 1.29 kg/m^3 . . . so that black hole is 1/26000 the density of the air we breathe. Crazy un-dense.

Data served on the U.S.S. Trieste out of the academy, aboard which he was promoted to Lieutenant and then Lt. Commander . . . and the Trieste shows up in several TNG episodes alongside the flagship of the fleet, so it's not like it was just a backwater patrol ship or something. Even if Picard hand-picked Data as his…

Your intuition about silver is correct . . . there are 12 atoms of silver for every 1,600,000 atoms of carbon on Earth.

Whelp, they just tore the house down, so I suppose that "respect" ran really deep.

If Starfleet command really just considered him a "curiosity" all through the Academy and his early service, I think they would have put a stop to it when he put in to become an officer. When the Doctor asked for command responsibilities on Voyager, the initial response was "pfft no you're a hologram don't be…

I know it's an unpopular and minority opinion, but I hate "Measure of a Man".

Yeah, I was out on the Pacific when a pod of Orca decided to swim right underneath our (smaller than any one of them) motorboat. Even though I knew they weren't trying to hit us, it was the realization that they could easily flip our boat accidentally, combined with "and we're probably too far from land to swim back…

Well, biological people DO have an off switch . . . really, LOTS of them. It's the "back on" switch that's harder to find . . ..