@Keshie: Sorry, I didn't realise there was a difference.

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: Now anti gravity I can get behind!

@Laconic: I'd say you win the irony contest with "space elevators don't (in theory) defy all known rules of physics".

There are so many practical issues with this idea that is surprises me that anyone still takes it seriously.

@GM_Pax: Technology users who mostly dont understand the technology they are using...

@Keshie: Yay! for your rant in support of the idea that science fiction encompasses fictional science. I can appreciate those that need the science to be plausible, but hey, fiction is fictional.

Lasers ... not cool.

@sprice82: Sorry, keep forgetting there are other icons named Steve.

@sprice82: This one:

I actually found Steve's home office the most interesting. Although I cant remember if it was show here or on Gizmodo.

All: "... happy birthday to you!"

@queensowntalia: Well there was that one time a friend came over: "Wow, you have a lot of books..." she said just before remembering an 8am meeting the next day. That was kind of awkward.

@queensowntalia: ?

@corpore-metal: We had an overload in the diaper department on Saturday morning. Not pretty.

@Rasselas: Or feed them in the middle of the night, or comfort them when they want to cry, or when you want to sleep. Other than that obsoletely.

@Manly McBeeferton: Only if you promise not to eat me. Otherwise I'll panic and empty the clip on full auto. Not that it will do me much good - if I happen to somehow hit your mutant ass, it probably wont do anything but get you pissed.

@Platypus Man: "real" football is that odd north American game? You really are an odd collection of mixed up parts Platypus Man ;-)

Excellent! This will be useful when I finally turn this country into a full on totalitarian state. With military police on every street corner and this helpful research, I'll be able to pick those commie liberal money wasters out from a crowd so we can reeducate them to proper right wing thinking - totally worth the…

@i heart bacon hub: wouldn't the alkaline mud burn their skin and cause them to froth at the mouth with arsenic poisoning. How could I enjoy that? No, mud wrestling should be bikini clad, PH neutral, wet and slippery spectator fun. And good for the skin.

@arcticfox012: Pffft, they were planted by the aliens that built the pyramids.