@leftatmars: but leave out the coffee,

@kalleboo: I thought these were made in Taiwan where they speak Mandarin.

18,000 deg F is F'ing hot! So I checked out the astrophysical journal where I read:

How much of a spiritual experience comes from our expectation that it will spiritual?

Meanwhile in Google's top secret mountain lair:

@Anne Boleyn: Irrational anger is irrational.

@truthtellah: Yeah, although, come to think of it, that would be one ballsy maître d'...

'Snuggie' still sounds like a brand name for nappies (diapers) to me.

@truthtellah: Maybe the maître d' wouldn't let him in without a Jacket and it's a loner?

I refuse to watch this movie adaptation until he finishes the series.

@im2fools: Thanks. I like cake.

@Purple Dave: I am now educated. thanks!

@im2fools: Err ... what? ts; nd (too short; no details). Anything that would rather 'burn' water and spit out hydrogen needs a handle with care label.

@im2fools: 2/3rds of the planet is covered in it. ya got nuthin to worry about. Worry about the magic sand instead.

@out.of.cheese.error: I'm pretty sure New Zealand is not technically a continent. But in any case I think he means the European age of discovery, in which case humans were already there.

"What ambitious tot hasn't thought about defending humanity while strapped into a glorious death-dealing battlemech, right?"

@Purple Dave: What's odd is that they are called 'shells'. In every other small arm people use 'bullets' (yeah that's wrong too, but its consistent). In artillery shells are the projectiles that go boom - exploding bullets.

@Althamiel: true, true. The limitations were consistent and plausible. And I really did enjoy that first series and to be fair the second wasn't bad, just tried.

@Purple Dave: Now you've got me wondering about shot gun shells...

@EtrnL_Frost: fair enough. I'm not really qualified to speculate, but what the hell this is the internet and everyone's an expert right?