@Behrditz: I thought the battleships and aircraft carriers were supposed to fly? I was told that they were supposed to fly, at around 10 to 20 knots.

@Cheese Addict: Hm. Borderline, but you're probably ok.

@Cheese Addict: It depends. Are you going to be wearing an artificially aged My Little Ponies shirt?

The dry sunlight from the incongruously clear London morning nonetheless seemed to gleam greasily off the polished, Japanese-DVD-player black plastic of the PC's (nié Bobby) video glasses. Cayce, morbidly detached from the gritty police procedural currently unfolding like an elaborate flash mob exercise outside of…

The biggest problem facing wireless charging as a methodology right now isn't range or recharge speed, its standardization- or the lack thereof.

@Cochese: Tanooki Suit Epic: Yeah. I'm pretty sure that the hipsters will invade on rollerskates. Not rollerblades, mind you- but real 70's-roller-disco looking rollerskates.

@MaksIsBack:

@GitEmSteveDaveInMySnuggie: That would explain all the Men in Black in the Starbucks line this morning.

It wasn't a plane crash. Some of the local first responders initially thought it might be because of how dramatic the explosion and resulting devastation was, but it was quickly dismissed. The NTSB is only being called in because they jurisdiction over gas pipeline accidents (since, technically speaking, the pipelines…

@Zebra_without_a_face: We're looking at you, Jean Claude Van Damme.

@Hello Mister Walrus: It means that when you don't know what you'll need for the job, you can still just carry one bomb instead of two or three.

@Hamslicer: The Mexican Coke is also sold in pallets at the CostCos in my area.

@Hamslicer: At least maybe if this catches on we can go back to using cane sugar in US foods instead of obesity-causing, diabetes-linked high fructose corn syrup.

@QuatlooMillionaire: ... BRILLIANT!

@hawkeye18: Wait, how is this linked to eugenics?

@openfly: Printouts from those things would be awesome. Since the face is pretty indistinguishable and the clothes aren't really visible, everyone in the group could jumble up the photos, pass them out, and then start trying to guess who is who. Great party game.

I just read an article about a laser ECM package the size of a car radio, and the one thing that stuck most in my mind was that Professor Mohammed Islam has got to be the most ironically named US Military contractor ever.

@openfly: Eh, well, it varies.

@artum: Well, a very very small percentage of the time, they will interact with an atom in a solid mass that they're passing through, which has a tendency to change that atom into a different element.