FOUL! Player Estes of team Gizmodo; Improper use of the word "horrific".

This laser can destroy a machine gun or rocket launcher without killing the crew wielding them. That is a great advance towards peace.

I have it on good authority that C-beams glitter in the dark, near the Tanhauser Gate.

He got the maximum sentence because he did not show up for his trial. If you cannot be bothered to participate in your own legal work, why should the court waste any time deliberating on a shorter sentence.

Yeah, he may want to spend the next several weeks in a bomb shelter, because three weeks in a rat infested, windowless hole will be far preferable the having thousands of very excited people explain flour to him.

The V-22 just needs to be sent in with a couple of A-10's. So many problems would be solved if the DOD would quit acting like it is a preschool playground.

I don't know, does the "U" in UFO stand for "unfocused"?

I have a theory based on the TOS crew never seeming to remember what they did last week, often changing personalities and always being on high risk missions. That theory is that the TOS crew were often clones, created especially to work such missions. Add to this the ridiculously outdated tech used on the ship and you…

I don't see any machine guns on top, therefore it might as well be be called a teenage sex and drug addict sanctuary.

Could someone please design a patch for the GIKFFTABBCIWBDC so that I can proudly wear it on my jacket?

This, I believe, is the motto of the the Global Institute for Knowing the First Flipping Thing About Biology Before Confusing the Issue With Baloney "Design" Concepts.

Anything in the "Known Space" series, "King Davids Spaceship", "Janissaries", Lensmen. Plenty of good stuff unfilmed.

Unh, Ugh, ooh ooh OOOH NYA NYA NYA ungh, ungh <<throws leaves>>.

You always bring the best science to io9. If it weren't for that urine drinking article , I could kiss you. Instead accept this friendly wave from across the room.

The real price of progress is courage. This flight went well, but it was not so long ago that people were despairing because of spaceship two's crash. Real progress has setbacks and in the aerospace industry they are quite spectacular. The cost will include the lives of good people, those of us who remain must not…

Do you have a smartphone? Because, irony. (You see a smartphone IS a super expensive solution to a problem that does not exist, so it's funny.)

"Tough on hobos", you sir, just wrote the ad copy for this new wonder.

Rails have gaps that would catch the edge, plus the constant wear and heat would dull then destroy the scrapers in no time.

To be perfectly honest, the AK-47 is not the worlds favorite killing machine, that title goes to the automobile.

Not according to the article. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal…