David Eddings' Belgariad series.

The whole time I was in Australia, the locals thought it was hilarious to warn me about "drop bears." Huge bears that drop out of trees onto your head and eat you! Apparently springing this joke on tourists never gets old for Aussies.

I trapped this on the wall over my bed. I knew it was there because I HEARD the *tikka-tikka-tikka* of her feet as she ran across the glass of the painting above my head, and turned on the lights. I live in the central business district of Sydney.

This sounds dangerously like string theory, and therefore I'm not touching it with a 10^19 meter, five-dimensional pole.

We're automating the jobs on the wrong side of the equation. We need to create consumer AIs.

I'd still prefer my tax dollars be spent on roads and bridges, but this was a.... sort of bridge.

Your tax dollars at work, people.

We stop being afraid.

Hopefully Musk will drop a couple of these bad boys on the light side of the moon, it'd be cool to see how that much raw solar radiation will affect plant growth, maybe the resulting spinach actually will give you Popeye like super powers.

This reminds me of one of the terraforming efforts from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy. One of the scientists littered the landscape with tiny windmills that use wind energy to create heat and gestate algae.

The man is a legend and his contribution to the animation industry is immeasurable. I'm saddened to hear of his retirement, but if anyone deserves it, it's him. May he continue to be an inspiration to animators, artists, and film makers everywhere.

All that's missing is Kevin McCloud.

this comment isnt very useful at the moment. Needs a bit of work done.

Wait. Wasn't it 2001 that invented the iPad?