Tell China to build an airstrip on it so we can prove it’s within the solar system borders.

This is also the core business model of every restaurant mariachi band ever.

Actually, current percentage of population in uniform is not an all time low at 0.46%. In fact it’s on par with the War of 1812 (we probably should have stepped up our game on that one), Mexican American War and Spanish American War. While the chart is from 2004 you can see that most peacetime percentages prior to…

Yep, apparently someone missed that day in physics. Technically the sun’s gravitational pull stretches out to the edge of the Universe, it is just after a certain point it is so small to be negligible... of course if something is orbiting it, its gravitational field is still dominant in that region of space.

Very well said. Most veterans that I’ve met were very well-mannered, intelligent, and didn’t mind working hard. Those are traits you don’t see very much anymore. It just makes me sick to my stomach when celebrities are called heroes. When’s the last time a celebrity or athlete jumped on a grenade to save somebody’s…

I’ve never understood why America lifts up it’s athletic, music, pop. culture, type-folks the way that we do. All the while completely ignoring the true heroes that walk among us. Thanks for saying this. I say it all the time and people just roll their eyes like I just don’t “get it”. Americans put a sticker on their…

And thank you as well Tyler. Yours is the only article current on the entire Gawker network that has two important words - Veterans Day - in it.

I think we need a new definition of “moon”. Much like Pluto doesn’t qualify as a planet I don’t think these chunks of rock should qualify as “moons”. Shouldn’t the satellite of a “dwarf planet” be a “dwarf moon” automatically? If a dwarf planet like Pluto had a true moon it would likely constitute a binary system (as…

I think there is an interest in the design and form of these machines, that isn’t immediately associated with gore and destruction. Each one of these objects was crafted with a passion to achieve a specific goal. Sometimes with desperation to be the pinnacle of what they were. In some cases, as a mater of life or…

Um, nope. Fusion is actually much, much safer than fission. If the magnetic field loses containment, the reactor itself might be toast, but the fusion reaction will immediately stop because the pressure isn’t there anymore.

Very cool. Wonder what the future looks like if they can get this working at commercial capacities.

Because one of the most accurate things that can be said about the terrestrial fossil record is that it’s patchy. The Karoo Basin in South Africa is (was?) the gold standard of terrestrial/continental exposures of the Permo-Triassic boundary. Maybe somewhere on Earth there’s a better terrestrial fossil assemblage of…

I do highly approve of the Gastaldo et al. paper being free to read/view/download. That is really useful and should help some of the commenters here avoid making unfortunate errors.

Cool. Let’s just hope they don’t find a guy who looks suspiciously like Boris Karloff. (Or Arnold Volsoo, for people who haven't seen the original.)

I find it delicious just as it is. No need for butter or soy. A fragrant rice cooked properly is like lollies for me ^_^

Pasta is terrible. It never seems to cook right.

This, so much this. Wanting to lynch these people puts folks on the same moral ground as they are.

Don’t make me come over there and oppress you.