And I would never have imagined saying this about any of Stallone's performances before I saw "Judge Dredd", but he had way too much facial animation for the role.

No, it wouldn't disprove the premise that the current round of climatic change is anthropogenic; it would just render the models that use environmental data from that far back invalid through lack of ability to define the parameters accurately. Considering that climate models have trouble accurately modeling…

And this is the fundamental flaw of the Kindle for textbooks or any other kind of reference book — there's no way to flip back and forth in the book except page-by-page or to points defined in a table of contents index (if it exists). Flipping back, say, forty pages is incredibly tedious, and the only way to make it…

The picture shows the metal binder clips, which are steel, both in the clip and in the handles. If you're cooking at a high enough temperature to be worrying about melting the binder clip on the rim of your pot, you also have to worry about melting the pot... but you don't have to worry about the food, because it will…

Not to mention the fact that the water being sucked out of your electronic item is being sucked out as _vapor_, which means that anything but distilled or filtered water is going to be leaving deposits in your gear. If you dropped it in salt water, for example, or got hit by a wave or fell into the ocean.

"They that can give up essential Liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." — Benjamin Franklin

No mention of a ruler is made, either, which would call #2 and #4 into question, and similarly no mention of a timing device is made, which would call #3 into question. Thinking back, there were also two others that required a cord and a timing device — first, dangle the barometer on a cord and measure its period as a…

There are pizza chains where you would get better flavor and nutrition from eating the box rather than the pizza...

You can find people willing to pay huge sums of money for a beat-up sandal if its provenance can be reliably established to have come from, say, the tomb of a priest attendant to Seti III; that doesn't mean the sandal has any value as a sandal, but that the sandal and its history has value. Similarly, that photograph…

The CIWS solution isn't ineffective; however, all hard-kill systems that rely on a limited number of launchers firing at incoming missiles are vulnerable to rolling back the defenses — you fire on the first missile at 2 miles out; by the time you can tell you've destroyed it and shift fire to the next missile, the…

One battle group, one nuke.

I'm reminded of the old high-school physics problem 'how do you measure the height of a building with a barometer?", and the various solutions:

Unless, perhaps, if you measure with a Geiger counter.

Demonstrating my credentials as a huge nerd, that's not 'mix and match' — the insignia on the port side of the car is the Old Republic logo, being an eight-pointed symbol — look at 0:37 in the video — not the six-pointed logo of the Empire of Palpatine.

"That's not something you want to ADVERTISE!"

"Read the full scientific paper..." after you pay $18 for the privilege, or happen to be at one of the educational institutions in the UK and Germany that get access.

From what I've read about the issue, it's not clear — the various accounts have not been particularly informative — whether the rock samples (encased in plastic with an Alaska state flag attached on a wooden base) were given to Alaska or loaned more-or-less permanently to Alaska with NASA (and therefore the federal…

Amusingly, the B-17 saw service in Vietnam for covert operations... because it "didn't look like an American plane". Which goes to show how much aircraft designs had changed, and how short some people's memories are.

Every time one of the remaining WWII warbirds is lost, I think about how few are still flying and remember a picture from a book about the P-38 Lightning showing planes being bulldozed into a ravine at an airfield in the Aleutians at the end of the war because it wasn't worth the avgas to fly them back to the States.…

Try picking ice cubes out of your glass of water to cool your tea.