The claim is correct, I think, just not explained well. The quoted energy 13TeV refers to the individual proton energies, but there are about 10^14 protons in the beam. The beams turn out to have 362 MJ each in total energy. The two beams together should have the energy to melt the copper according to your calculation.

The Ethiopian chess, Senterej, sounds pretty cool.

If the game has been so thoroughly studied (particularly the opening), is it perhaps not time for a new game? What is on the road to perhaps eventually replace chess as the quintessential thinker’s game? New variations?

SPOILERS, probably, maybe, whatever.

They just kind of got me into the whole shebang. When reading about the movies or shows here on io9, I got exposed to a lot of discussion of the Marvel comics world. Ended up picking up Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel, which wouldn’t have been on my radar. Agents of SHIELD got me interested in the Inhumans so I went back…

I would not have gotten into Marvel comics were it not for the MCU films and shows.

Ah, yes, that's a classified location.

A short film of Black Widow going full-on superspy to infiltrate the SHIELD break room and steal the “world’s greatest sandwich” that Nick Fury brought in for lunch and keeps bragging about although he won’t tell anyone the name of the deli where he got it. Can replace the sandwich with “world’s meatiest gyro.”

As far as I can tell by Googling around, “soft” in this usage just means robotics with very flexible locomotive components. Is there more to the term that I’m missing?

I first read TKJ rather recently. My modern sensibilities were not in any way outraged, but I wasn’t particularly impressed either. I guess you had to be there when it came out.

One aspect I love about Adventure time is the character design. Especially with a few characters (Flame Princess, P-Bubs, and Marceline) whose looks are constantly changing but are still immediately identifiable, sometimes just through the color palette.

In my experience, that attitude is very much alive and well, although definitely waning.

I’m strictly a TPB purchaser but it’s on my list for when the first such volume appears.

Boom.

I am not the target audience at all, but the artwork for that comic makes me want to check it out. These movie shots, not so much.

An outrageous lack of outrageousness?

Quantum mechanics.

This is pretty ridiculous. If there is no real resemblance to the comic, why bother even having an official connection. You don’t need to pay DC to just use Lucifer as a character in a generic urban fantasy show; he’s public domain. And I doubt the comic carries enough of an audience to make it worthwhile just as name…

The article isn’t inconsistent, although it’s maybe unclear. Let me clarify the physics here. The real speed limit in relativity is a speed that physicists call c. This also happens to be the speed light travels in a vacuum, so sometimes people say “the speed of light” when they really mean c. OTOH, within a material…

Good point that is often overlooked. You can traverse any given distance in an arbitrarily small proper time. Although, it’s a little strong saying that it’s the only measure of velocity which matters. That’s true for the traveller, but the limits of relativity still place tough constraints on the kind of “galactic…