I wonder if this is equally true of some of the language/cultural isolates, like some of the mountain Basques villages.

I've read like three of them and they're incredibly troped up with terrible dialogue and character development.

Main character walking around wearing a fedora pretty much says everything that needs to be said about this show and this book series.

Terrible books

So, what does she do? She tourniquets her arm at the elbow with an ice pick and towel, washes the blood off, puts the offending knife onto the gas fire, heats it to a nice brick red and...wait for it...cauterize her own arm.

Are bats like night-flying Ant-Man's natural predators?

We regulate the manufacture of homemade whiskey as a matter of tax policy. And there's no constitutional amendment directly on point giving people the right to manufacture whiskey. So...

It's kinda funny to me that Jezebel is describing another person as a "piece" - I feel like if someone in the media had called e.g. a celebrity's female companion his "piece" there'd be a little bit of an issue over here about objectification of a person who is obviously more than just a piece of ass.

Is this one of…

Question:

Article title is "how humanity will conquer space without rockets"

DON'T AEROLAUNCHES STILL USE ROCKETS?

Ah yes- the perils of reposting idiocy instead of independently fact checking

"At this point, things get crazy."

This is exactly what you want to hear from the man planning your 4 year mission.

440 days in tiny space ship, 1 year in a tiny gondola, 440 days in a tiny spaceship (assuming you can take off again from the tiny gondola)

To be fair, if Moses in ancient Egypt looks Byzantine, you've already got a time warp problem

I'm genuinely curious- how do they make great pets?

So this is like closing the terminator loop, right? He gets a stack of gold bricks?

Well played

Incorrect. Clearly they're still on D-subs

I hate it when my Schwartz gets twisted, so I invented these