The beatings will continue until your sense of humor improves.

With apologies to Metallica....

I just laughed so hard I broke all my furniture!

I know it's hard to believe in the age of tablet PCs and the Internet's, there was a time when folks had not heard of a battery powered opossum. Kids today!

Alternative theory: ART!

Except Gamora. She is a Fungal.

Groot is obviously a sentient colony of plants and fungi that work in unison... you know kinda like how humans are stacks upon stacks of interlocking bacterial housed within a meat case.

So does this mean we're one step closer to getting actual io9 articles on Hannibal?

More likely just some air currents caused by differential heating. One of the reasons they should have tested in a vaccuum

...and if it isn't a horse, check for zebras, deer, elk, cows, moose, and everything else with hoofs or hoof-like feet before moving on to unicorns and winged horses*.

* I totally want there to be a plural for pegasus. Pegasuses? Pegasusi?

The article doesn't say that "conventional propellant" is necessary for propulsion, just that some kind of propellant is. Ion thrusters, not too shockingly, use charged particles for propellant. Which still presents a problem, because xenon is rare and expensive, and mercury is toxic (and expensive).

The idea that someone would say anything when the engine produces the same thrust while off as on suggests that no one involved was even aware of the possibility of error.

Yep, it's definitely going viral.

Dammit, now I'm hungry for bushmeat. I'm letting you off easy this time though because, luckily, there are gorillas at the local zoo.

Ah, Flipism:

Everyone always panics whenever there's an outbreak. What a bunch of ebollocks.

Nor I. I agree completely. Reality is absurd.

"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."

I imagine you were have the slime of your life looking at all these pics...