There's no ignition here, just lots of heat.

Nothing, it would burn up in the atmosphere. This was a boulder, not a huge asteroid. For comparison, the one that exploded over russia last year was probably 8000 times the mass of this.

Huge? I don't think 1 meter qualifies a huge when talking about asteroids.

Droid Maxx.

So basically, it was funny until the first example.

TIL pill bugs are crustaceans, not insects.

Unless I'm forgetting something, those interfaces were all text, and a "low power homebrew system" wouldn't have the slightest problem displaying them. And weak or missing passwords were (and still are) very common.

In, say, the WarGames era you might be able to believe that the folks who worked up the screenplay might not really have a grasp on the way computers are connected (and not connected) through the internet.

Torture would be the only military application, since this would require inserting special proteins into the nerves, which would require first capturing the subject then performing expensive therapies on them...

Scientists turn off pain using nothing but light... and proteins inserted into the nerves.

I'm sure there are a lot of morons who think there were tanks in the civil war.

A piece of crap board that is going to fall apart while I'm riding it? Where do I sign up? </sarcasm>

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I'm sorry, you're wrong. Making predictions and then testing them is a major part of science. This is the prediction, and the end of the article mentions that they think it might be testable.

Come with me if you want to find out who is playing the new Kyle Reese.

Houston, we have a floater...

These assertions, however, run counter to the findings of a small number of highly-publicized studies, including one published in a 2012 issue of Food and Chemical Toxicology that suggested a link between the consumption of Bt corn and tumor growth in lab rats

It would make more sense to 3d print a mold, and use that to make the furniture. Given the cost of the materials, 3d printing a chair would give you the worlds most expensive crappy plastic chair.

So you don't consider those to be green?

Are you seriously claiming that non "green" energy has less impact than this?