I found that it's super easy to make human drivers crash with a simple $5 laser.

It's amazing how many of our systems only work with the underlying assumption that we're not actively trying to murder each other at any given moment.

In the movie Blackhat there's a screen where a hex editor is used to analyze some malware code. The hex code is just random nonsense, but the ASCII conversion contains lines from an erotic novel, but with each word reversed

Here's a screenshot:

http://imgur.com/VIWNahL

The text on the right says

Her lover one day takes O for a walk ....
in a section of the city where they never go the Montsouris Park. After they have taken a stroll in the park, and have sat together side by side on the edge of a lawn, they notice at one corner of the park, at an intersection where there are never any taxis, a car which, because

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which comes from this:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2FThe... ... O_djvu.txt

Those hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional mice sure are good at getting humans to do all the work to cure mice of all disease and aging.

Sure, if you *cap* the population at 150 during transit, and don't allow multiple pairings within the same generation of course you're going to kill the genetic diversity.

However, if instead of a generational ship we were talking about hibernation until arrival, 150 is enough to begin a genetically viable colony. How do you avoid the risk of inbreeding? Simple: no cap on the number of children, but no full siblings allowed. Encourage as many different genetic pairings as possible.

Is it really necessary to prefix "diamond nanorods" with "ultrathin"? Is this to differentiate them from superfat diamond nanorods?

nooooo! I'm still hooked on 2.0 for Google Browser Sync (only supports 2.0, development has stopped.) Why can't another browser incorporate such a feature?!

2. Some people from the New Mexico county in which Clyde Tombaugh (the tireless discover of said celestial body) was born wanted to honor him, in defiance of the slithy toves and slimy weasels that would deprive him of his hard-earned recognition. I'm not going to provide a link you probably won't follow anyway, but you might find that he deduced the presence of an unseen planet from perturbations of Neptune's orbit and found the tiny pinprick of light only after weeks of staring into "blink-comparators" which alternate views of the same patch of sky taken over an interval.

Pluto is not responsible for the perturbations in Neptune's orbit. Tombaugh was wrong. And how hard he worked has exactly what the hell to do with whether it's a planet or not? Deprive him of his recognition? Pluto should have never been declared a planet in the first place, and the only reason it was considered so was due to the PR groundwork laid by Percival Lowell, who was a far better showman than he was a scientist.

What is your solution on how to deal with the questions raised by Sedna and Xena? Ignore them, make them all planets, what?