God bless America.

pffft. I can do that!

If I worked that high up, I’d already have a parachute.

The craziest rumour I’ve seen is probably this:

Or DARPA has this guy on their speed dial.

Damn, this guy must be on a whole assortment of government watch lists.

But repulsor rays! Uni-beam! Rocket skates!

In a matter of years we’ll probably see a MOBA championship in South America where they hand out Kool aide to the attendees.

There is no man that has as much sense as Bill Gates has money.

Broomball.

And, of course, the American witches and wizards must call Quidditch something else that is not “Quidditch”, while the rest of the wizarding world calls Quidditch just “Quidditch”.

I’d kind like to know exactly how they manipulated it. Because it could be legitimate depending on what they did.

So I have a really weird question, prompted by Toothpetard’s pointer to the Harvard article about gold, that I’d need an astrophysicist to answer.

If we were talking about Dunbar Rock, sure. Tasmania and New Zealand are large enough there’s room to run. Also, the population of either is smaller than many American cities, so you probably wouldn’t have to worry about being “overrun” if you were able to secure a self-sufficient domicile in a rural area (hopefully…

Personally, I plan on a long vacation in Switzerland during the Z apocalypse. The Swiss are bad ass soldiers and their entire country is a fortress.

Minneapolis didn’t make the list? High percentage of gun ownership, various rivers and lakes limit zombie movement, lots of nearby farmland, plus a large medical industry anchored by Mayo Clinic just an hour south - perfect for the third act road-trip-to-save-humanity.

All i’m getting from this is that hot chicks are popular.

Looks like they could use this to control the site of bubble formation, which might improve water flow and heat transfer. Bubbles tend to disrupt the flow of water, and cause turbulence. If this control of where the bubbles form is included in the design of the boiler, (instead of bubbles forming just wherever the…

You can look at all the different behaviors of dog breeds and see how we molded their intelligence. I read an article that looked at the difference between wolf and dog intelligence (it was either NPR or io9, but I couldn’t find it, sorry!) and it’s not so much one is smarter it’s just dogs are better at understanding…