First thing that came into my mind was my nephew running around singing "Poke poke poke poke, poke poke her face" at Christmas.

@TheLostVikings: tasty biological weapons of mass destruction are the best kind.

I live in Hong with one of the worlds longest life expectancies.

@Laconic: That's the problem, while conceivable its also inconceivably difficult. A few million will solve few of the very real practical issues of building something with a length 7 or more times the radius of the whole freaking earth (just to start with).

@ijustwritebooks: I guess one of mine is language that conflates ideas with physical things. Not that I'm one of those 'ideas just want to be free' nuts. Plagiarism and the like are clearly morally (and often legally) wrong.

@ijustwritebooks: I'll grant you that plagiarism is dishonest, but 'the theft of the soul and the imagination'?

That strange report of a Pepsi marketing exec running around yelling 'high five the Zoltar of viral marketing!' suddenly makes sense.

@skywalker993: Really? There are so many things I will not eat that I dont know where to start: human flesh? spiders? sewerage? poison?

So the first one is a knife and the second is a pistol, but WTF is that third thing? Wait, I don't want to know.

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: Many people think Rabbits are cute and cuddly and make good pets. [en.wikipedia.org]

@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: