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[scrdest]

Some remarkable footage of an opera singer undergoing open brain surgery to remove a tumor, while singing an opera. (don't worry no blood)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiARnsKUAo

Now, a year later, the guy in the video reports he's doing fine, and still singing opera.

Scary as hell.  All I can think of is that scene in Agents of Shield.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Please let me die, please let me die.

I've got a bit of a phobia about brain surgery though.

Just tell me, was that scene real?

Real, as in? It actually happened in-plot, if that's what you mean.

[Rose]

No, they literally performed brain surgery on set.

[Furtuka]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/space-elevator-with-inflatable-tower-patented-by-thoth-technology-1.3194738

[Frumple]

... I have to admit, there's something to the thought of Hindenburg, the Space Elevator. Twenty kilometers of high pressure hydrogen -- surely nothing can go wrong :V

_{Yes, I know they could use helium instead. Not nearly as amusing.}

[scrdest]

... I have to admit, there's something to the thought of Hindenburg, the Space Elevator. Twenty kilometers of high pressure hydrogen -- surely nothing can go wrong :V

_{Yes, I know they could use helium instead. Not nearly as amusing.}

Must... resist... Archer... references...!

[forsaken1111]

... I have to admit, there's something to the thought of Hindenburg, the Space Elevator. Twenty kilometers of high pressure hydrogen -- surely nothing can go wrong :V

_{Yes, I know they could use helium instead. Not nearly as amusing.}

Must... resist... Archer... references...!

Sounds like the area, or zone if you will, around that hydrogen filled space elevator would be kind of... dangerous.

[hops]

Why is the son of Coul getting his brain stitched up when he got stabbed in the back by a teleporting demigod?

[Levi]

Why is the son of Coul getting his brain stitched up when he got stabbed in the back by a teleporting demigod?

I think it was less stitching it up and more keeping the neuron's activated to prevent brain-death somehow.

[Descan]

Because he was dead so they're restarting his brain by poking it with electrical shit.

... I assume. Never seen the show.

[scrdest]

Because he was dead so they're restarting his brain by poking it with electrical shit.

... I assume. Never seen the show.

He wasn't, at that point.

It heavily involves McGuffins and spoilers.

[Telgin]

... I have to admit, there's something to the thought of Hindenburg, the Space Elevator. Twenty kilometers of high pressure hydrogen -- surely nothing can go wrong :V

_{Yes, I know they could use helium instead. Not nearly as amusing.}

Yep, we just need to perfect fusion so we can get enough cheap helium. 

Actually, I'm curious how expensive the helium would be for such a construct.  It would have to be constantly replaced too, since helium will leak out of it no matter what you do.

Wasn't there a helium shortage not that long ago?  I remember seeing emails shot around the university here asking people to spare some since it was so hard to get at the time.

[Dutrius]

I think that refers to Helium-3, which is a pretty rare isotope of Helium.

[Eagleon]

I think that refers to Helium-3, which is a pretty rare isotope of Helium.

Nope, regular old helium is getting rarer and more expensive. It's used as a much colder coolant than liquid nitrogen, for instance, in MRI machines. Our reserves come from decay of radioactive materials in natural gas deposits that have been sealed long enough for it to accumulate, and once they get tapped, it's obviously only a short time before it escapes to the upper layer of the atmosphere.

[Dutrius]

I know that. It's just that Helium 3, which these cold physics research places need in addition to regular Helium, is more expensive.

[Eagleon]

I know that. It's just that Helium 3, which these cold physics research places need in addition to regular Helium, is more expensive.

The "space elevator" idea is ridiculous, for that reason, though, and I imagine it'd burn through our reserves pretty fast - biggest skyscraper in the world filled with high-pressure helium, right, that's not going to leak like a sieve. Might be worth it short-term to develop a better long-term presence in space, but any business that built it would quickly see it as a liability - then you get people stepping in to declare it a national monument, and it ends up being the reason for both the Great Filter and, incidentally, Miley Cyrus's brief experiments with hardcore glitch in collaboration with Aphex Twin. Terrible consequences.