PayPal has been at risk, for a while, of no longer being the de facto platform for the commissioning of furry porn. They can’t risk any bad publicity.

I appreciate the note, but I didn’t forget anything. I didn’t need to describe the process, because it was immaterial to the post. Legally-registered machine guns are essentially never used in crimes - they don’t matter. We all know this. The point of all this is that, yes, it is, relative to almost every other…

There are 60 minutes in an hour, not 100.

You know, that big thermal exhaust port (radiator) on the front is almost two meters wide...

“its ILLEGAL in all 50 states to own a full automatic weapon without EXCESSIVE licensing”

What does a hydrolocked rotary even look like?

Actually, making it run on H2 (or packaging it as an H2 car that just happens to be able to run on gas, or something) would basically get them past all the EPA obstacles by itself, wouldn’t it?

If only there was some Agency responsible for computer Security on a National level to help with this sort of thing...

I have to wonder too if this isn’t almost “substitute religion”?

One point in favor of that happening more than a few times is that during the time that species are failing to get past the technology threshold, organic matter continues to build up. After a sufficiently long time, the leftover fuel is more and more likely to be recognized and exploited.

The Lovecraft comment is so perfect, too.

It’s fun to pretend, sure, but the whole “hide from aliens because who knows what they’d do if they came here” premise (of the article) is flawed, because they can’t come here.

And again, you are correct.

It seems like we really don’t know enough yet to make any grand generalizations one way or another about the existence of life elsewhere in the universe other than we haven’t found it.

Personally, I prefer flamethrower headlights.

I honestly thought they were being sarcastic, and am still not sure they’re serious...

Why E63 AMG and not R63 AMG?

Faster-than-light travel isn’t possible. There are no galaxy-spanning civilizations.

Read the article - the counterfeit booze can be window cleaner.

“Nanotubes arranged side-by-side into a disk would probably be how performance brakes in the distant future will be made.”