@Nivenus: Hmm well. I agree. But it's got eight appendages. Both the Giant Squid and the Colossal Squid - like all squids - have eight arms AND two tentacles...

@genomecop: The old "coffee is bad for you, coffee is good for you" debate, is old.

This: [www.cato.org]

@Hello Mister Walrus: No it is simple misunderstanding on your part unfortunately. Statistics don't work that way.

@Hello Mister Walrus: "In the Netherlands 9.5% of young adults (aged 15–34) consume soft drugs once a month, comparable to the level of Finland (8%), Latvia (9,7%) and Norway (9.6%) and less than in the UK (13.8%), Germany (11,9%), Czech Republic (19,3%), Denmark (13,3%), Spain (18.8%), France (16,7%), Slovakia…

I want that to be my living room! Syd Mead is a legend and a true oracle.

A brown dwarf could have a mass around four times that of Jupiter. I don't see how this Tyche object differs?

@muttbutt: Mmm saucery. My favorite is Magic the Gravying. :)

@Helixthe2nd: Yeah. The US funds the world:

@UnalteredTruth: Nice tone. Tasteful, classy and mature. My kind of commentator.

@PsychoSuperman:

@Therage: That last word you wrote? Right back at ya.

@Y2KGTP: Nice. Let's keep things we don't even need from the poor, just because there is a dip in the amount of flat screen tv's being bought per Uhmerican home.

@Jonas: It's ok because it's Carlsberg. Probably not the best beer in the world.

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: So you can notice a difference in 1 degree Fahrenheit but not in 1 degree Celsius? I find that hard to believe. I would call that superstition or want-believe even.

@kraai: It's always nice when a respectable newspaper like The Daily Mail breaks the embargo on important research.

@Arsnof: He was in Iron Man 2.

@db4dbms: It is actually almost certainly about the discovery of a bacterium that can sustain life without phosphorous, something we thought was impossible.

The press conference is almost certainly about a paper being published in the next issue of Science called:

@Pope John Peeps II: Robert Hooke probably also died from taking a tonic containing mercury. Abe Lincoln also ingested a mercury containing condiment called blue mass.