Well, it seems that what you would need to do, then, is to modify a Maker Bot or other 3D printer to increase its working depth to allow you to build up a proper model of the Eiffel Tower completely from ground level, piliers and all.

Yes, but it still tastes like getting your mouth washed out with soap. It does produce squeaky-clean teeth, though.

'Forbear' is a variant spelling of 'forebear'. See the Merriam-Webster website.

It's the downward deflection of the air passing over the wing that generates lift, not the curvature; the curvature just makes the wing more efficient at inducing that deflection. A flat plate in a wind stream will generate lift if it has a positive angle of attack, which illustrates the effect more clearly than any…

Go do the math sometime and see how much actual pressure differential would be generated by this; a Cessna would have to fly at more than 400 mph in order to generate enough lift by differential pressure.

I was thinking that giving Alan Rickman something like that and seeing how long he could hold it together would be hilarious to watch, myself... And then there's always rounding up the cast and holding a slashfic version of an "Eye of Argon" reading to see who's the most unflappable...

Just making them fly in their own planes isn't enough. Make them use their own passenger seating and individual space for all their administrative offices. See how much they get done when their office is 31" wide and they have to 'sit' in a 'standing chair' for eight hours a day. But it will reduce their need for…

Copyright laws need to be returned to what they were originally.

It's clearly a cityscape, but I have to admit, my first thought was "You could make a Death Star surface with little 3D-printed X-wings and Tie Fighters on clear-plastic supports; that would be infinitely geekier".

However, seat pitch isn't where the screw tightens most. Say you have a 104-foot cabin, with seat pitch at 32 inches, giving you 39 rows of seats, 3 on a side. Now rip out all the seats and replace them with new seats with a 31-inch pitch; that gives them enough extra room to shove in another row of seats... adding…

Well, no; you'd have killed Hitler, but all you did was split off a new timestream where Hitler was killed. Everyone in the timestream you came from is still living in a world where Hitler wasn't killed, so you haven't done anything to benefit them, and if you go forward in the new timestream, the development of that…

Just to raise a thoroughly geeky quibble, the pin is displayed improperly in the graphic; the 'D.A.P.' should be at the bottom, which would orient the hakenkreuz properly.

Because 'hypercarnivore' sounds so much sexier and imposing than the existing term 'obligate carnivore'.

SOPA and PIPA... Once more proving that, just as 'con' is the opposite of 'pro', 'Congress' is the opposite of 'Progress'.

The negatives were four feet by six inches in size? Doesn't sound very practical.

Actually, one of the problems was that they tried both quality and quantity; if you look at the Luft '46 website, you can see all of the aircraft design projects that were proposed, many of which went into mockup or abortive prototyping, not counting all the designs that went into equally abortive production — each of…

Ghu, but I laughed myself silly at that picture. You, sir, win.

Or the more down-to-earth "horse with all the options".

And they're making the assumption that it's a laser — which the 'six beams coalescing into one' visual would argue against. If the weapon actually induces a conversion from matter to antimatter, the visible beam could be merely a side effect of it passing through a not-quite-vacuum, and the energy liberated from the…

The key is in Vader's line — 'technological terror'. A ship like the Sun Crusher, which could sit unnoticed in the corner of a spaceport, isn't particularly terrifying. Having a vessel the size of a moon enter your system is inherently much more threatening. It's all about the psychology.