They cost a lot because others are willing to pay a lot for it. (As to why they would : scarcity, location, proximity to other rich people, that kind of things.) That’s pretty much it for just about everything that cost a ridiculous amount of money. And law of diminishing returns mean 10 times more the price is not…

I think the correct response to that is “you and what army?” :)

Douglas Adam’s Last Chance To See is a hilarious read. Having said that, the females have a hard time finding males because there are so few of them left. Presumably, before they are so heavily endangered, a female doesn’t have to work so hard to track down a male because there’d always be an available one much closer.

When I went into a T-Mo store in San Francisco to get a micro SIM, they just used a punch to cut down my SIM to size, gratis.

IDK, going by a species, I’d say that one that heavily contaminates its own living environment, reproduce rapidly without regards to resource limitation, constantly invents better ways of killing its own members, and came up with the atrocity called “reality TV” might be called dumber.

Well, since you mentioned it...

That’s exactly what I do. I hear of a camera from Gizmodo, read to see if it is interesting, then go to dpreview if I want in depth information.

When you point your finger at a bruh, there are 4 fingers pointing back at the bruh that is you.

I was really excited about the glare reduction from the top and side, until I saw $600.

It was the main reason I rooted my first phone - to use Titanium Backup to delete some of the Samsung apps. It freed up a significant amount of RAM as well as storage.

So if we reduce the size of Russia, we reduce the chance of an asteroid strike, right? To the tanks!

I’d have thought the answer to their problem is obvious...

It’ll be fine. It’ll be balanced out by the mountains rising due to the disappearing ice pack.

Of course it went out. How a fire can even burn in that horrible humidity escapes me.

Does “xyzzy” work on this version?

That giraffe thing is disturbing.

A couple of other things to consider regarding your proposal.

There’s a very good reason it hasn’t been proposed yet :) If we can move such a large mass that it will appreciably affect Earth surface gravity, we won’t be fazed with minor issues like launching rockets.

Me too. And it doesn’t help that I read it so many times I recite it with my eyes closed...

Anyone ever read Goodnight Moon to their kids at bedtime multiple times most likely noticed the clock on the table. It took that brat 70 minutes to fall asleep.