HDs reserve some space to remap bad sectors. As this space gets used, any IO to remapped sectors will have to seek to the edge of the disk and back. So yes, HDs can get slower with age as the number of remapped sectors increases. But this is usually not noticeable unless there are so many remapped sectors that the…

For the crosshairs.

The adamantium was fused to his bones, how would that give him claws, and the muscles to extend/retract them, if he didn't already have them?

Not to that planet, but a similarly sized one farther out would have an even harder to detect signal. Since we could just barely detect this one, the possibility of one in the habitable zone is still wide open.

I approve of this name.

Yeah, and if it's not audiophile quality, it's worthless! (that was sarcasm, in case you were wondering)

No, I was coming here to make the same joke. :)

You need to minimize any gap between exposures. I set my camera to continuous shooting and lock the button down, rather than using a timer that takes a pic every x seconds. This way, when an exposure finishes, the shutter only closes for a tiny fraction of a second before it starts the next one.

Damn that makes me feel old.

Highly unlikely to be the last thing we see. Mostly because, to see it, we'd have to have left the solar system. We'll either be dead by then, or we'll have left and it won't kill us.

When I say gyroscope, I don't mean one with an actual spinning mass. These days they are small solid-state accelerometers that are only called gyros for historic reasons. I've seen them as small as a couple grams, but that's still way to much for something like that robo-bee.

Perhaps a bit of shrapnel from the explosive bolts?

Looks like they just took a bunch of videos of it rolling in random directions, labelled them, and pretended they decided in advance which way to turn.

Yes, much remorse since upgrading to ios5 removed features from the music app on my ipad, and destroyed the battery life on my ipod (yes, every possible notification option is turned off).

Of course they don't say it outright, when you're doing something borderline illegal you don't advertise it. These records are already public, that's how they get them, they don't need anyone to make them more public. What they are doing it spreading them, forcing them into search indexes, and then offering to undo…

I see a loophole: "when the copyright holder knows that infringement has not actually occurred". If they automate the delivery of takedown notices, then they don't know that they are wrong. Clearly that section was intended for malicious false notices, not accidental ones!

How is "pay us to not post your mugshot on a bunch of websites" not extortion?

Right, but the question is, why did he have a thermometer outside any of the colors. I'd assume it was a control, which would make the placement a lucky coincidence.

One bug = infestation. Ohhh k.

How does one wash peanut butter before use?