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[Sheb]

Ok, didn't know that. Well, still cool with me.

[Helgoland]

Best use I can think of for it would be for interstellar travel. I posted it here a few months back, but there's basically a promising propulsion system in development; basically, it's Project Orion, only using fusion pellets instead of fission bombs.

This sounds very interesting - any further info?

[Osmosis Jones]

Hmm, I seem to have been mistaken; it uses magnets to compress the pellet, not lasers. Still, they're probably able to use at least some of the NIF data.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/10/nasa_fusion_engine_fast_mars_trip/

Also, BEARD HAT-TRICK!

[Lagslayer]

*Ronald Reagan wakes from his eternal slumber*

[Frumple]

*Ronald Reagan wakes from his eternal slumber*

Spoiler: Days like this I wish I could image edit worth a damn (click to show/hide)

[Helgoland]

*gets into bare-knuckle boxing match with Zombie Lenin*

[BFEL]

It seems like a good idea not to uplift any species that we might've been dicks to sometime in our long and dickishnessfull history. After all, what's the point, if afterwards you need to kill them all in a bitter war of vengeance?
Which leaves, what? Rock eating bacteria?

Hey, spiders would probably understand us murderdeathkilling so many of them.
Being heartless predators, they don't share this insane desire of humans to desperately pretend they think murder is wrong.

Now look at that popular choice of OCTOPI. Now there you don't have all that much cold-blooded murder to explain away, but that's probably preferable to trying to explain why the Japanese giggle whenever they're around.

[alway]

Now look at that popular choice of OCTOPI. Now there you don't have all that much cold-blooded murder to explain away, but that's probably preferable to trying to explain why the Japanese giggle whenever they're around.

Hey now, that stuff's got over half a millenia of art history behind it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga
The most well known example of that trope in particular was an 1814 work called "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife," created by the same artist known for some pieces you will recognize, such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa

[tahujdt]

Now look at that popular choice of OCTOPI. Now there you don't have all that much cold-blooded murder to explain away, but that's probably preferable to trying to explain why the Japanese giggle whenever they're around.

Hey now, that stuff's got over half a millenia of art history behind it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunga
The most well known example of that trope in particular was an 1814 work called "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife," created by the same artist known for some pieces you will recognize, such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa

It is a bit embarrassing to admit that I have seen the first one, but not the second.

[MonkeyHead]

What, never seen my avatar? For shame!

[Descan]

You're Welsh, though. Who pays attention to the Welsh?

At least you're more often noticed than the Cornish.

[BFEL]

You're Welsh, though. Who pays attention to the Welsh?

At least you're more often noticed than the Cornish.

Well the Cornish have those famous hens. You know who doesn't have anything like that?
Wallachians. Nobody remembers Wallachians.

[Erils]

If the universe is 13.8 billion years old, what existed before then? Any guesses?

[Mr. Strange]

Nobody remembers Wallachians.

But we remember The Impaler.

[10ebbor10]

If the universe is 13.8 billion years old, what existed before then? Any guesses?

There are numerous theories:

1) Nothing
2) A continues self-annihilating singularity of matter and anti-matter, in equal amounts
3) Another universe, which underwent a big crunch
...