Basically all the particles disperse rapidly, the reaction dies instantly, and the temperature drops like a stone. Of course, you don't want to be the guy standing in front of the crack when it goes, but it's basically safer than any other energy-solar and wind included-when you factor in the environmental impacts.

I’m not sure if you’re trying to make some sort of weird joke, but a 17 year old in the year 2016 is not a millennial...”millennial” applies to people who reached young adulthood around the year 2000. These kids were born in 1999...

Wait: who thought that she gave into anger in the fight with Rylo Ken? It looked to me like she calmly tapped into herself to focus, and then, you know, fought. While the point about her learning “too” fast, and therefore possibly getting impatient is a good one, and could have legs, I never, ever got the impression…

Well wait a second. The title says they made the “perfect skipping stone”.

Scientists [...] figured out how to make [...] stones. The secret was making sure they were made out of a material that [is not] stone.

Considering the old English Dub VHS specifically calls them lepers (as far as my age-addled brain remembers) I’m not sure it can be called an Urban Legend.

Maybe an unintended translation error which happens to coincide with the truth, but certainly nothing to get confused or speculate over.

Wait, the fact they were lepers and discriminated against elsewhere was an urban legend? I thought that was a super obvious part of the story.

He’s not a game theory AI, he’s a language and knowledge analyst.

Can someone please explain how they can justify this? If the world was truly this close to destruction for this many years it would have been a one in a million chance that we exist today. Continuously reporting the end of times gives the clock the same credibility as the bums holding the repent now signs.

1. 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

“Racism is prejudice plus power”

It’s not science fiction, at all. It just wears the clothes.

Star Wars is Tolkein-ee Fantasy in space. Star Trek is science fiction.

If anything, Star Wars already is fantasy, there’s there is no connection to the real world.

The biggest difference is that Star Wars could be converted into a work of Fantasy instead of Science Fiction pretty easily, and Star Trek could not.

You’re conflating powers of two with multiples of two.

“It’s the 49th prime number discovered since the search began in about 500 BCE.”: I think you mean it’s the 49th Mersenne prime, i.e., the 49th prime which is a power of 2 minus 1. Amazingly, it is still not known whether there are an infinite number of primes of this type.

... which the article attempts to explain.

Poorly-labeled graph with source that doesn’t support it! Drink!

When Neptune was discovered in 1846, it was because astronomers noticed that it was being pulled out of normal orbit, and they predicted that this was because of the gravity from another planet