Feet, miles, what's the difference?

Huh. I see Prometheus.

All you really have to do is drag an anchor. It happens.

Those are not large g-forces. Think it through.

And you, Jesus, are a prime example of what is wrong with the human race. From article to article, you moan and kvetch, ridiculing anyone who does not think as you do and anything that is not suitable to you and never offer an actionable solution that accounts for the needs of others. The best among us to commits to…

As I explain above, it's not free. You must put energy in to get energy out. You flex or stress the crystal (energy in) and it generates a voltage potential and brief small current if there is a circuit (energy out). Thermodynamics rocks. While we go look up Hutchinson, why don't you go look up thermodynamics and the…

Is it worth trying to explain? I think not. Oh, what the hell. It have long been known that certain crystals will flex in the presence of an electric field (see piezo-electric speakers.) It is also known that those same crystal, when flexed, will produce an electric field (e.g. piezoelectric starters for BBQs.) There…

That is not really true. The weight loss will be due to some dehydration (carbs bind with water if I remember correctly) and also due to some increase in metabolism as the body adjusts to having to accomodate the loss of carbs. Apart from a just a few pounds, simply cutting carbs but keeping the calories the same will…

Personal attacks aren't very useful, here, especially when we are largely in agreement. I am pretty comfortable with the scientific meaning of the word "theory" and was using it quite precisely. In fact, despite that there is little question that it occurred, there is still quite a bit of mystery about how long term,…

It largely depends on what you mean when you say "evolution". Do you mean small-scale or large, and do you include abiogenesis? If you mean all of that then, sorry, no, it is far from proven. There is lots of empirical data that supports much of the theory, but the whole thing is far from provable fact. In fact there…

I don't see that he did. There is much to criticize giz's articles, but this one is actually well written with appropriate language. To refute your claim, you must read the words and not simply suffer a knee jerk because of the topic. To wit: "...our forefathers' wrinkly fingers and toes could have...". Note the…

Me too. I had to read TFA twice to even remember who Technics was.

Well, it could be an error because variations in how infant mortality is determined skews life-span and mortality rate calculations. Some countries, even first world countries, for instance, do not consider it an infant mortality event if the child dies within a few days of normal childbirth. For some other countries,…

It seems that way, but there is manufacturing failure rate to take into account that increases with size and pixel density, both. When manufacturing yields are low, they are throwing away a lot of screens due to flaws. The price will come down as the manufacturing process is improved.

Is this the new thing, then? "You didn't build that..."? Really?

Those pedestrian safety laws sure have made European cars pretty~

Isn't Charlie Sheen the obvious choice to play McAfee?

Maybe it could be because V.W. U.S. thinks people in the U.S. are litigious children that are not willing to accept responsibility for their actions. It seems to me they (Audi) may have had experience with that before...

Horological-douchey-tools are a special breed. I mean, what normal person would ever recognize that wrist-watch as something worth $58,000. No one. Most people are surprised that there eve are watches worth more than a few hundred dollars. So, horological douchey-tools are very specialized in that only other…

There are many ways to cook a thing. Deep frying a turkey produces a unique result that you can not achieve with roasting. These videos show, for everyone's amusement, the few times the process has failed either on purpose or due to ignorance on the part of the people involved. The vast majority of people who do this,…