@A Hypothetical Moose: Aaaaaaah!

@A Hypothetical Moose: Nonono, that's ogres. And the Tooth Fairy, though admittedly she's pretty selective about which parts of the children she takes.

@Stymie99: Well, Europe is home to 500 million people, who happen to live in some of the richest and technologically developed countries on Earth. It's not really a surprise that it's a huge market for electronic luxury goods.

@Lupus_Yonderboy: When you put it that way, I'm sure my NIH funding would triple with that kind of reputation. I'll do it! Just for the money though, so I guess I am a stone-hearted bastard :p

@Lupus_Yonderboy: True. I think I've earned the nerd moniker already anyway. I don't need to become the Tumor Teepee Guy as well.

@Lupus_Yonderboy: I routinely do exactly that. If by "sneak into" you mean "make sections of and perform immunofluorescent confocal microscopy on", of course.

@numanair: Lol, done!

This girl should win a reverse Darwin Award. Well done for keeping your smart genes in the pool for future procreation, kid.

@luckybaka: Nah. The 3DS will sell like gangbusters regardless of when they release it. By waiting, they have one more holiday season for clueless grandmas to buy a DS for little Jimmy.

Okay, now we just need to build a couple of hundred of these things, then it's real world ChuChu Rocket time!

@FriarNurgle: On the contrary, it's only a matter of time before the TSA insists that everyone getting on a plane wears a pair of these outside their other clothes in order to contain the blast of any underwear bombs they might try to detonate.

I can't help wondering if some of that huge advertising budget would have been better spent on lowering the price of the thing so that more people are willing to take the plunge. Most people I've talked to have said that they'd spend $100 on this, but $150 is too much.

I was lucky enough to be able to visit JPL earlier this year and I got to see the rover being built with my own eyes. It was amazing. Curiosity is also way, way bigger than I thought it would be.

@Sylocat: Nope, that's just us evil biomedical scientists messing with you. We could make it taste like peanut butter and chocolate or whatever you liked if we wanted to.

Isn't it the Noble map pack, not Nobel?

@SophieJKL: It's an armour item for Bungie employees, like the flaming helmets used to be in Halo 3.

@TheOvermatt: Nah, that honour goes to Scrabble. Unless you agree with everyone you're playing with prior to the game that the dictionary on your coffee table is what you're using to decide what is and isn't a word, you're going to get fistfights.

@Soulrider2012: The Royal Navy's nuclear submarine fleet is based in Scotland. You're more likely to find one there than elsewhere in the UK.

@casperiv: A real Popeye disciple would crush the can then use his pipe as a straw.

@Matt0505: *Stamps foot*