And also why impossible tasks are described as Sisyphean

It’s all about that bas, no trebl.

re #7 That would be Sisyphus, not Tantalus. Tantalus’ punishment is to be eternally hungry and thirsty. He’s stuck in a pool of water that, when he tries to drink from it, drains below his reach. Above him is a fruit tree that moves out of reach whenever he tries to eat from it. Thus, the term “tantalizing.”

Please, proofread at least once before you hit publish.

Did Theon and Sansa seriously just push a lady to her death and then leap to safety from that same height?

I’m in the middle of the book right now, can’t wait for the movie, looks like it could be a pretty good.

Watch the vids Dave (EEVBlog) has done on solar roadways. I think you’ll change your mind.

Was? Hopefully “is”.

Bullshit. If you count low dollar transactions, maybe, but the percent of high dollar chargebacks and claims is way out of line. There aren’t webpages, there a full websites talking about the fuckery of Paypal.

This looks really stupid.

I get it, you’re that guy that talks loud because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about! Nailed it. You should do theater!

Ugh, that pic you posted totally butchers the quote.

Fly around the moon? No sir, we are going to mount one to the side of the plant and just fly Earth where we need... Think Annihilatrix.

Anyone else hoping that with the success that the new Daredevil Netflix series has seen we’ll be seeing him at least cameo in Civil War?

Dyson spheres definitely won’t be rigid structures, there isn’t a material that could hold up, even theoretically. They would have to be lots of individual pieces in various orbits.

Or perhaps you need a machine at both ends of the trip, so you can’t travel back earlier than the first machine was built (as would be true for any wormhole based time machine).

If you made a perfect copy, without destroying the original, would the original see out of the copy’s eyes? Would it ever experience any of the copy’s remaining life?

The buyers aren’t buying the rocket, they’re paying for delivery to orbit. Whether or not the rocket lands successfully after that makes no difference to the customer except that it will lower costs once spacex can do it repeatedly.

... except that's usually the leading man / woman only doing their stunts. So it prevents pay for a (or at the most 2) stunt double(s).

Take, for instance, Jackie Chan's Stunt Team. True, Chan is much more of a natural athlete than Cruise, but he still needs his face to sell His stunts. The people he fights, and…