Stability does seem like a real vulnerability with this thing. Even with a rigid bottom, it’s hard to imagine standing more than two feet from the center without it pitching terribly. Perhaps they recommend placing about a thousand pound layer of sandbags over the bottom?

e-commerce really has killed off the old bricks-and-mortar places like “Antler Depot” and “Antlers-A-Million”.

there is still the issue of what happens if you need to relieve yourself in the middle of the night.

They don’t seem to have ever located a beta tester to record their response.

Thank you for doing the work I would have done had I known where to start (I have asthma, and don’t partake).

Yeah, definitely taking a loooot of license there with the water pressure. But I guess James Cameron was asking way to much in consulting fees.

That would be kind of an interesting theme to explore — future cultures’ projection of what’s important to them back onto the past.

“Fortinbras” is a pretty ironically bad name for a watchdog, inasmuch as he’s the Prince of Norway in Hamlet, who only appears at the end when everyone’s dead.

I don’t buy “child” unless you had some role in their upbringing. Definitely “sibling”.

+1 on the uncanny valley and “clone jealousy”. Similarly, those with very specific sexual preferences or “kinks” might find very little common ground — cloned “dominants” or “submissives” might enjoy watching each other, but would probably have zero interest in playing with each other.

I’d be into meeting and hanging out with my twin, not the least to see just how similar we really were. As an unfashionably straight guy, I don’t believe that would translate into physical attraction.

You’re making certain (understandable) assumptions about “fast aging”. While I think it would be natural to be wary about the mental/emotional maturity of someone artificially aged, I don’t think it’s conceptually impossible that an artificial process could produce a being physically and psychologically equivalent to…

Of course, growing up with a twin would arguably make you different from the current you, who presumably did not.

As anti-missile technology advances, nuclear-tipped ICBMs aren’t the deterrent/political cudgel that they once were. This and that 100MT nuclear torpedo that they’ve publicized are an attempt to raise the “doomsday bar”. They’re an attempt to compensate for the overall reduction in military strength since the breakup…

Turns out they were never under water. It was just really, really humid, and they could have taken their masks off at any time.

He moves so spastically in that. I can only imagine that he was trying really really hard not to accidentally fracture Garner’s skull. Or perhaps he was interpreting the character as a guy who was only a marginal martial artist, but was used to intimidating westerners who assumed that an Asian guy must be a black belt.

And a fictional movie that a lot of the people complaining haven’t actually seen.

Back to the Future didn’t “use” Chuck Berry to show how badass Marty McFly was. It was a time travel joke — in the “King Arthur’s Court” of 1955, suburban teenage “slacker” Marty McFly is the “Connecticut Yankee” who’s effectively the best rock & roll guitarist alive because rock hasn’t been invented, and Marty has…

I saw the aftermath of an accident on the PA Turnpike a few years ago where I believe a bear had fallen down an embankment, but had the misfortune to land in front of a tractor trailer, rather than on a police car.

The cam & memory card might have burned up. I don’t know that cop cars are livestreaming 24/7, though it might not be a bad idea.