Can I get mine in Yellow?

if you had posted this two weeks ago we would have had a Historic Halloween

RTFA??? Why would anyone do that????

OK, the "Lava-Lamp" effect was pretty cool, but the most important thing about starlings is that They Don't Belong In The Americas!!!!! They were intentionally brought over by some misguided schlump and now they are displacing dozens of native songbird species. Pack them all up and send them back to England!!!

They don't stand a chance!!!!

FrankN.Stein - needed this.

Not at all. I'm just being silly

"A plausible end-of-the-world scenario you’ve probably never thought of" - God does what He said he would. Plausible? Not to you, because you refuse to consider it. But it is plausible to millions of people. "Never thought of" because you've never really read what He said He would do.

There's never a reason to feel dumb at io9. this is all about discovering cool new stuff. Everything is new to us when we first find out about it.

Since this is io9, we all ought to know Silicon [en.wikipedia.org] does not equal Silicone [en.wikipedia.org]

Thanks for that! Makes them far less scary than what my head was making them out to be. Hard to think that's a single eucaryotic cell, but so is an ostrich egg.

Link in article goes 404. Better link (I hope):

Read the title. Drawing (and shaving, too, amaya57) require Effort. So do some of the articles suggestions, but I would allow for choosing what to wear since you ought to get dressed anyway.

Sorry, Agent Dunham. I don't buy the "Infinite Universes" concept.

Dr Emilio Doesn't bleach kill viruses?

We're all fairly smart people here, right?

Not sure if it was the 1951 version or another film of that time which presented the idea of a spaceship made from living tissue. All life on Earth would become just a huge farm for those who made such ships. They would (intend to) collect anything from moss to cattle or humans and convert it into structural material…

Want more (small) beautiful pix? Mark indulges in many sorts of Nature Photography at

LULZLULZLULZLULZLULZLULZLULZLU...!!!!!

Too much Win here. Will stay up all night enjoying these tunes.