People forget the steam engine. For all our advancements, most of our infrastructure still depends on the humble steam engine. Our power plants, with the exception of hydroelectric, are just steam engines. Even the latest solar farms that use steam to drive turbines are another iteration of the simple steam engine. I…

Steam engines, hands down. Our modern world would literally not exist without it.

Apparently girls don't ever have failed romantic gestures? And neither do adults. Teenage boys do the darnest things.

The iPhone does use Gorilla glass.

Yes they do. I don't know where you get the idea that they don't.

I'm sure Corning designed the glass used and seeing how tough some of their stuff is, I believe it.

Meander over to /r/incest sometime. Or don't.

I agree completely! I just worry that they would make him flawless and not explore his flaws right.

It was my 14 year old sister, so..not so much.

I agree with you on most of these.

That was my point. I didn't learn that it was one country but the textbooks we were using and the sing-along geography tapes hadn't been updated in awhile and still showed the USSR as one country. As I said, we were homeschooled.

I was homeschooled and in the late 90s we were learning about geography. We learned about the Soviet Union as one country. I've always felt woefully deficient in my geography training because I didn't know the breakdown of each former Soviet nation. Of course, we learned geography by singing songs and it would have…

My first thought was flooding the area with some kind of broad spectrum, high powered intense jamming right before sending the missile in. It's radar would only need to be offline for a split second to get a missile in.

It definitely looks like a more user friendly version of the electric toys I see at the conventions. I personally don't do electricity but a lot of people love them.

I actually, as a fan of Tesla, don't think a film would do him justice. He was so full of flaws and so full of genius and so full of both good and bad ideas. I can't imagine someone being able to capture that. I'd be worried they would either make him too perfect or too flawed.

Hannibal. We've seen tons of Spartacus' but never seen Hannibal. Of course, at this point I'd rather seem him in a HBO or Starz adaptation but I really want to see it!

I remember seeing this gif before but forgot where it was from. Do you have the source? Love it!

That massive grain of salt I took for that Marvel rumor has completely tainted it. I really don't see that happening at all. Some bits and pieces are believable but all of it together just doesn't seem plausible.

Tony Stark in the Avengers asked Bruce Banner if he was using a big bag of weed. One of my favorite lines.

I'm failing to find the logic here. You're beautiful! One of most beautiful in the country! Now have some plastic surgery...