@frxnz: It's the suburbs. You either find them comforting and progressive; or confining and oppressive.

The first dozen or so comments were all goodness. But there is such a thing as too much goodness. Instead of a conversation in a quiet cafe it soon devolved into a crowded bar of people shouting for the bartender to serve them a star.

@DDigital: I'm sure one day we'll discover the means to practical interstellar travel; and

I hadn't heard of Scientometrics before. Now I have both heard of and dismissed it all within 10 minutes.

@Kaiser-Machead v.2.1.2: No, no, no. The Kangaroo is shown practicing his Kata.

@Dr. What?: @Kamenwati: how about we just say that Humans have been unthinkingly killing off species since we climbed down out of the trees and call it a truce?

@jeffery: I saw the remains of a Ute that had an encounter with a wombat once. The unfortunate beast walked away (it probably died, but we'll never know). The Ute on the other hand had to be towed and wasn't worth the cost of repairing.

How about

@James: Hope is not a strategy.

@abeywan: well sure, but if everything falls to bits and no one if there to count them are there really more pieces? How will we know?

@necgray: I hear it happens at least once in each lifetime.

1/ I was under the impression that "immunity" is something that the immune system develops, not something that the virus conveniently mutates into.

@Zshelley: 15MB? You're messing with me right? Everyone knows it was 640kB.

@abeywan: No person will ever need more than 64 bits.

No man or machine can possibly know a woman's mind.

@Morgan_Creamin: Because Google is like Kansas and Yahoo is like Oz?

That's what I love about surveys and statistics: you can pretty well much make up any shit you want and then 'prove' it to be true, all with 99% confidence.

@Roklimber: I had the same thought, but from the abstract: "using a simple self-propelled particle (SPP) system with a new kind of boundary condition"

@OtherTimes: US interest rates are so low the bank is paying you to take the money.

@Shiryu: But there can be only one.