You and Angusm win. Awesome. :)

If Neil deGrasse Tyson had been around to speak up for the Apollo Program in the 1970's, I wonder how things would have gone differently? The Space Program didn't have a gifted, impassioned, articulate champion then. I'm just glad that he's such a brilliant communicator now - there's at least a chance that he will…

From unfortunate personal experience, I've seen this in action. Several years ago my wife and I were driving and saw a large cat who had been hit and was laying in the road. I pulled over and went to move him off of the road. As I'm heading over to the poor cat, these two gap-toothed, backwoods, inbred a_holes came…

The Tom Swift books, both the original and the "Jr." series, were a HUGE part of my childhood. I know it'll never happen, but I would love to see a movie or mini-series based on them.

Very first time was in May of 1978, at the Boston Museum of Science. They had computers that could play Tic Tac Toe with you. You could see the computers through darkened glass between the displays. The very first time I used a computer that I could program was with a TRS-80 Model I, complete with a tape cassette…

Apple should take this ruling and run with it. Think of the fun they could have, obeying the letter of the law, yet not the judge's intent. :)

"How LOW Can He GO???" ... From all indications, he's shooting for the Marianas Trench!

I'd just like to take this moment to thank Mr. Limbaugh and whoever his current supplier is for this wonderful little hypothesis. Maybe after a suitable amount of ridicule, Mr. Limbaugh will become a homonymphobic.

Interesting story - Doc Lizardo found it here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23657356/The-Marching-Morons

This! Thanks! I'm glad I wasn't imagining things :)

There was a science fiction short story written in the 1970's, I think, called "The Marching Morons." The main character was someone from the 20th Century who had been in suspended animation and was accidentally released in the future. The average I.Q. of the world had taken a nosedive, and the world was being run…

I felt a distinct tremor when I read that remark. I'm sure other people will be left quaking at the thought.

I think you're right. That kind of thinking is completely alien to anyone with the least shred of decency and critical analysis ability.

There was a short-lived sic-fi comedy called "QUARK" in the late 70's with Richard Benjamin. The crew was on a space garbage truck.

Very cool, especially if the efficiency was good enough to replace normal lighting, or if you could control the light level of the wallpaper, too. Might be better for ceilings, though. Time will tell.

We need a new unit of measure: Rpccm -> Rainbows per cubic centimeter!

My Amiga 2000, with a blistering 7.16MHz clock speed, 1 M RAM and an aftermarket Quantum Fireball SCSI 250M HD, complete with additional 1 M RAM. That, coupled with the AMOS programming language, DeluxePaint and Sculpt-Animate4D ... Fun times!

They'll R.U.E. the day!

Oxygen deprivation deprivation? So, like ... does that mean depriving yourself of oxygen deprivation? Everything in moderation, especially deprivation!

These are wonderful!