So, I'm guessing that all the editors went home already, huh?

@EtrnL_Frost: Well, to be fair, assuming that they could receive the signal clearly, it would be clearly distinguishable from natural phenomena and random interference. They wouldn't necessarily be able to decode it, though, especially video formats, since those are basically arbitrary. But it would be distinctive.

@MrTroy: I was just saying that nowadays, game makers tend to have a better idea of how to make a game actually difficult instead of arbitrarily (and frustratingly) difficult.

@Brought_to_you_by_CarlsJr: Evolution doesn't need extinction events to move up the "ladder" (evolutionary levels is kind of a discredited trope, in any case). At best, it reshuffles the deck, and at worst, it just wastes a bunch of time and genetic diversity. Things evolve all on their own, all the time, as long as…

@Daveinva: Luckily, there are a couple of arguments that make the optimistic outlook somewhat more plausible-

@BrockEffnSamson: Well, personally, I'm of two minds on the subject.

"they would still be able to detect it as long as their antenna technology was a century or two ahead of ours"

Maybe this just proves that art snobbery is a world of pointless wankery, where a napkin doodle from Picasso can outvalue an elegant renaissance portrait that happens to come from an anonymous or otherwise undistinguished artist, and not even the greatest experts can tell the difference between a multi-million dollar…

@WestwoodDenizen: Truth.

In two weeks there's going to be a pachinko parlor there.

Its called "fake difficulty", and its what happens when game designers don't know what the hell they're doing. Thus, as you might expect, you mainly see it in titles from the 80s and early 90s, and budget bin games today.

Well, to be fair, a snowglobe could easily be used to attempt to smuggle drugs or explosive, since the liquid and material of the diorama are contained inside a sealed glass container which could then have its exterior sanitized (leaving very little for sniffer dogs or chemical detectors to, well, detect). And they're…

The way I read those results, is that a person basically becomes "addicted" to their partner, with psychological/neurochemical withdrawal being the explanation behind the depression and extreme behaviors. Seeing or thinking about the partner is like getting a quick fix, which results in people tending towards stalking…

"Well, you see Mr. Prince, if we install 64-bit Windows 7 on your machines, you'll be able to use more than 4 gigabytes of RAM for audio post-processing, so 256 k lossless shouldn't..."

@Too.Tired.To.Sleep: Just wait until one of the aliens land on our world and is as surprised as any of us that it can suddenly fly, throw cars, and shoot laser beams from its eyes.

@KatrinSedai: The other short answer: we know life can develop in an earth-like environment. Until we get some hands on some actual xenobiology, that's the only solid thing we have to go on.

@Howard J. Barnett: To quote: "Because red dwarfs are much more numerous than sun-like stars and so provide many more targets. Because red dwarfs are dim, planets orbiting them will not be as swamped by starlight and so their light is easier to measure."

"5,000 users at the same time"

@Kaiser-Machead: Remember, you're talking to some of the same people who think that giving gays the right to marry is discriminatory to straight people.

I feel sorry for mothers who get conned into taking this medication to "cure" their daughters who are diagnosed in-utero with CAH.