Right away, unpack and eat an MRE. Those things will stop you up for days.

I guess giving directions would be easy. He’s the 100th office on the right, if you reach my desk again you went too far.

I’m not here to argue about the specific prices of these chips or any other medical technology, but several people seem to be implying that because something is cheap to make it should be cheap to sell. Medical research doesn’t do itself. It costs exorbitant amounts of money. Arguing that medical advances should be…

My favorite line from The West Wing:

Just so they don’t use a Samsung Galaxy Note 7.....we wouldn’t want to start an interstellar war.....

Sunk cost fallacy

Iconic? How about stupid and done for shock value. The previous director had it right. Kevin Spacey’s character punished sins with an inhuman discipline. Morgan Freeman even gives a freaking monologue about it about how disciplined he is. But we’re supposed to think that a plan prepared years ago suddenly gets tossed…

I’m personally hoping it’s all just a distraction from her secret plan to take down the emperor and that she’s actually leading a rebel strike force into Trump tower right now.

on my command, unleash hell

There’s an APB out for this guy:

I only use one website with “hub” in its name and it is running just fine.

I think it is important for a parent to talk to their teens about social media and the fact that everything they post on the internet has the potential to be there and follow them around forever.

Actually, the whole purpose of either the dyson island or the dyson shell (which is a more dense version of the island) is to support a civilization. A full sphere, especially on a larger star, isn’t really practical unless you can truly harness all the energy of the sun and store a significant portion of it.…

It is not about energy, it is about longevity. The Dyson shell/island idea is not for just generating and harnessing energy - it is for habitation and civilization growth. The system is intended to support a civilization.

Um... no. Not in the core. Bad things there.

Oh, I don’t disagree. The odds of actually spotting a star with an engineering event going on around it are about a billion trillion to one, assuming that there would be about 2 civilizations at any given time capable of performing such an act, and that they would do so to a star that was within our visible radius,…

As for the Prime Directive, I’m advocating that working on stars unlikely to harbor life is a more logical solution than finding already existing habitable worlds to colonize. As an ancestor of mine once said: Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day - teach him to fish, and he’ll be fed for a lifetime. Remember,…

The biggest axe against it being an alien megastructure project is the fact its an F-type star. F-types only live a couple billion years, depending on mass.

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