Seems like a good premise for apocalyptic scifi. Some grad student discovers that the constant is changing but no one will believe her, because you know - no reputation (and plus she's a gurrl). Computers start malfunctioning, communications systems fail. Then she invents some gizmo that has to be placed on a comet…

@cakeman: I hate to break this to you but When Mommy said you are the bestest ever Waldo finder in the whole wide world, ever! She was just trying to build your self esteem.

Google says there are three of me.

@Dresan: So you're saying that at one time I was actually considered cool? Wow thanks! Wish someone had told me back then though, I might have used that confidence and got laid more often.

There is something missing from that explanation. How does a cloud of dust self-organise so that light coming from 'outside' behaves differently from light coming from 'inside' the cloud? What would the dust need to be made of?

@SupaChupacabra: The Coriolis force (which by the way effects things the size of weather systems, not anything as small as a toilet) is caused by the earth's rotation, not the magnetic field.

@CanisPugnaxSnores: B2.0 because you they're new and improved over the current bacterial overlords and you know there is still going to be BO

Ahh Nipon! Drag hideous creatures up from the depths and eat them raw. Sometimes they kill them first. And if no added neurotoxin is required: that makes it so much better.

I thought a trope was a 'theme or device'. This list focuses on plot devices. Maybe you can do a second list focusing on the themes.

@DrZaius: That's what I thought too. Those dudes freak me out.

@Nexus6: This explains everything. Take a superficial look at something and you only see the superficial.

@Dan Del Rio: The world has pretty much completely moved away from the in band signalling that made phreaking possible. Grammer correction: "phreaking is" should be phreaking Woz

@Go Vols!: Um, most photos captured are of things that a bullet hasn't sliced through.

@Bramsey89: Guns go bang bang. Lazers go pew pew.

Capt. Captain. Captain Captain.

@Standish: mommy is right. *backs away smiling and trying to look as inoffensive as possible*

@Anonymoose: no way did High school students in 1992 say 'Oh snap' this is a recent perversion that must be stopped.

@Standish: It is the crazy person wielding the floppy that inspires the fear. And so I have to assume that you're bat shit crazy...

I prefer beer goggles. I get foamy goodness and you look better. Everybody wins.

Penny-wise and pound-poor as my Granny used to say.