Yes you're correct. Most of these things have no chance of happening tomorrow or any time soon. We'd be aware of something strange long before it "ended".

"It might sound ridiculous, but scientists still haven't settled, once and for all, whether we're living a life made of code."

I take my Apple stuff to a certified repair place but it's not an Apple store. I trust the middle aged couple that run the place. Not that they couldn't do nasty things, of course but they don't seem the type. In any case, I don't keep anything "sensitive" on my computer and I'm a middle aged guy myself. I can't say…

The first difficulty here is that China is their best buddy (really their only friend in the world) and won't brook much interference in their foolery which is not to say that China is exactly pleased with them.

Maybe it's where you live? Here, every kid shouted either "trick or treat" or "halloween apples" (this might be a regional thing if you've never heard of this call) otherwise I wouldn't know they were there (kids don't ring the doorbell here). They were polite on the whole and said thanks and mostly were eager to…

I submit that it's highly unlikely that people who believe that the earth will be destroyed on Dec 21st would be disabused of their beliefs by this 4 minute video. I suspect Nasa videos are not of great interest to this group of people generally and they'd never see it anyway.

I'll take your word that these look good because I don't see it somehow.

Instagram's sepia filter goes too far and Twitter's sepia filter doesn't go too far enough. Or is it the reverse? Maybe it's both.

Didn't they flood them this fall or was that for some other reason?

I just decorate my Norfolk pine that I have growing in my house. Or I did till it died. Now I decorate my shefflera. I'm not sure why you'd buy these awful fakes when you probably have something free (and equally awful) already in your house to use.

Yes you can send them overseas and especially to Spain.

No, of course you don't. Just like every film, it's not necessary to see them at all. Most of the human race will never see this movie and not be any worse for it (indeed they may be better people having never seen it).

If it wasn't he'd be bald most of the time from getting too close to fires, explosions or simply blown/ripped off when going at super speeds.

I've seen/heard this question several times in the last while. It is an interesting question. I think troll may be evolving in its usage. Whether the novel interpretations will last or not is another question.

quailman you seem a bit touchy about a joke.

Lots of science (not necessarily this one) doesn't have a specific application in mind. The science is done to "simply" gain knowledge. That is, we want to know how/why fish suddenly (or not so suddenly) sprouted legs starting the colonization of the land.

As with anything that involves people all those things can be discussed but given time many of those views and ideas can change. Real relationships evolve and change and it's good to be aware of it. That's not to say that you must be happy about it necessarily but just prepare yourself for the possibility that people…

Really? That's interesting. Where I'm from they have different sized nozzles. You can't get a diesel nozzle into your gasoline car. You can get a gas nozzle into a diesel car though so I can see that happening. But I guess if you're filling from a can or something that could happen, rather than at a gas station.

So you're saying if you use twitter's website you're using it wrong?