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No, 'incomprehensible', coming from the verb 'fathom', meaning 'understanding' or 'comprehend', from an Old English term meaning 'grasp' or 'embrace'; the usage survives in the idioms 'get your mind around [something]' and 'wrap your head around [something]' — implying that you had to be able to encompass something to

"This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you would not have been informed."

You're referring to Wardenclyffe? He ran out of money before finishing it.

Yes; we could institutionalize eating them. Chickens, cows, pigs, and other commercially-raised food animals are never going to appear on the endangered species list. Expand the predator-free sanctuary and manage the population by culling for market while setting up hirola ranching.

If a hammer is the 'ideal tool', perhaps Victor could tell us which hammer is the ideal tool? Is it a plain-face claw hammer, a bell-faced claw hammer, a setting hammer, a mason's hammer, a machinist's ball peen, a machinist's cross peen, a machinist's straight peen, a lump hammer, a framing hammer, a joiner's hammer,

"You could work these things in the dark!"

Each month, they're waiting eagerly for the one customer who'll buy something that will pay everyone's salaries for the month...

Picture someone with fists the size of a whole ham, and then the kind of job they'd do at any task requiring tiny, delicate work. "Ham-fisted" is an old term denigrating someone as clumsy or uncoordinated — and the way that 3D has been spatchcocked onto movies just to jump on the 3D bandwagon certainly qualifies.

There is a resin 'Firefly'-class spaceship model kit available from the Starship Modeler webstore (which is currently throwing a Java error for me, unfortunately); a review of the kit can be found here.

"Hereafter, all graffiti is to be submitted in four copies."

You simply require that all firearms carried aboard aircraft fire ammunition certified to be aircraft-safe — low-velocity rounds and frangible bullets that break up instead of penetrating airframe materials.

Reminds me of the NPC I found in Atlas Park in the City of Heroes MMO who was standing on a bridge with a camera; he'd fiddle with the camera, then crouch down a bit to take a picture, over and over again — but there was something wrong with the character mesh, because every time he crouched down, it looked as if

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See your Dschingiz Khan and raise you the same video with the mondegreen (and somewhat NSFW) subtitles done by Buffalax.

The shading on the guard in the first clip makes it look as if the king there needs to allow his staff to take 'rest' breaks more often...

There are a number of authors, such as Simon Hawke with his Timewars series, who used the same premise — in his work, a timestream split lasts as long as it takes for the change not to make a difference any more. For example, delaying a paperboy delivering papers in the morning would damp out almost immediately, while

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't passenger awareness and vigilance prevented almost all terrorist attempts since 9/11?

Pour in enough epoxy, and it will all be one solid block — no fragments at all. ;)

"Who touched Sascha? Right. WHO TOUCHED MY GUN?"

She'd be showing more skin if she were wearing a bikini, and be equally SFW.

If the hydraulic system that operated the landing-gear bay doors froze, it would take a lot of gravity to get the gear to push the doors open. Just one of the possible failures that the investigation team would need to look at.