Not until the Shit hits the fan...

Mythical creatures have human tops and animal bodies — except for the ones that don't.

Sydney, NSW, Australia.

bigger in Texas my ass... You could fit 3 Texas' in my State of western australia alone and still have room for Japan and a bunch of other countries. In South Australia they even have a single cattle station that's the size of Belgium. That's right, one single property, the size of a European nation.

Matt, you are using a BS argument to foment outrage where there should be none. Your notion of rapidly detecting blood borne pathogens like HIV has no relevance to the world of Blood Banking. Blood Banks use screening tests, not diagnostic tests (if you don't immediately understand the difference you should recuse…

They have a similar rule for people who lived in Europe when Mad Cow Disease was prevalent: http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBlood…

Can I PLEASE for FUCK'S SAKE, get some sympathy from my fellow-I09ers for living in the Deep South Wasteland known as Southern California? Unless you live here you really have NO IDEA how willfully and cheerfully ignorant people are. Like, there's this whole monied-class of people who don't seem to have jobs and have…

It says live not alive. A bomb can be live, that doesn't mean I'm going to be buying it lunch.

Anyway, we refer to viruses as "live" all the time, meaning that they're in an infectious state not that they're living.

Friday is pizza night!

Ann Leckie's novel Ancillary Justice has won the UK's prestigious Clarke Award! We read the novel for io9's book club, and Leckie came to chat with io9 readers about it.

You mean "No. There is another.", right?

Oy! First Penrose's nonsense and now this. Spare me! It's called "speaking outside your area of expertise," Max, and many others have mistakenly gone down that all too well traveled road before.

I feel like this missed a chance to call it the "Last Homely House."

Came for Planetes. Was not disappointed. Still my dream job. +1k

Please read this comment by 001ex00, which starts by saying "3 out of 20 people were able to determine correctly whether their violin was a Strad or not. That's impressively poor performance given that they had a 50/50 shot at being right."

"Whatever you do Marion, don't look at the light". Uncanny. If a serious X class flare took out Earth's technology, at least we'd have this to enjoy whilst we waited for the breakdown of society.

thank you, that is unbelievable.