@crickitobs: Yes, very likely so.

Another boring episode, though admittedly better than the previous one.

@Charlie Jane Anders: I doubt it. I'm pretty sure Walter Bishop has invented the shredder in every alt-universe out there.

@Too.Tired.To.Sleep: Hmm... not anymore, I think.

@LittleDragon: You mean "had"... not sure anything is left unturned after that storm.

Either you didn't see my post on the odeck, in which case I'll say "Ha! I beat you to it!", or you did see it, in which case I'm disappointed for the lack of acknowledgment.

@DARSFOG: Precisely.

Wait... it just occurred to me. This is still 2010, the year we'll make contact, according to Arthur C. Clarke. It was about time.

Yeah, they found me.

@Ghillie: Not to mention suing for downed power lines and satellites due to solar flares.

@MrLebowski: Read the article. She takes 10% of the proceeds for herself so the article is in the right ballpark: she'd make $678 million per year.

@ManchuCandidate: Very true.

Perhaps his sexual partner had a stunning body but an ugly-as-hell face, so he forced his eyes shut so hard that he went blind because of it.

I recommend "The Lost Room", for 6 hours of very entertaining and original TV.

@cortexiphansession: Hey, that's what io9 secretly pays me for to do here. :)

It's far too impractical for everyday use, since the access time is very large. So, if it ever gets implemented for real, it will be only for storage of massive amounts of data meant to survive a long time using a relatively small amount of volume.

@ethic: Precisely! Sigh...

@Esther Inglis-Arkell:

"The pieces of debris were circling the sun along with the big boys, like earth and Jupiter, ..."

@thedarkerside.to: Agreed.