icelight commented on Genetically-Engineered Hairs Improve the Human Ear

"Now I'm all conflicted on which technology I want to mature faster."

icelight commented on Yes, There Is Water on Mars -- But You Can't Drink It

"Annalee, I'm afraid your sources are already out of date."

icelight commented on Blackswift Will Be the First War Machine In Space

"The other advantage is that launching an ICBM is a rather sketchy thing to do."

icelight commented on Iain M. Banks: Humans Could Join the Culture via Genetic Engineering

"@dingleberry: Really?"

icelight commented on Rocket Racers: Like Crazier NASCAR In the Sky

"One problem in your article."

icelight commented on Finally, An Electric Car That Won't Trap You In The Zombie Holocaust

"The "prototype" drawing they have on their website looks all sleek and curvy."

icelight commented on Beautiful Video of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo

"Based on their timeline, they appear to be trying to claim that both the White Knight and Spaceship 1/2 are more advanced than the Apollo lunar lander."

icelight commented on NASA's First Solar-Sail Powered Craft Set to Ride on a Stream of Photons Next Week

"To be needless technical, "proton" is correct as well."

icelight commented on Welcome to the Gattaca Dating Service!

"I see this more as a plan by a geneticist who got really tired of breeding mice, and decided to look at what all those recessive genes do in people, once and for all."

icelight commented on The Tragic Beginning of Dr. Horrible

"I thought that this was definitely the best of the three."

icelight commented on The New Hottest Spot in the Milky Way

"@whatamidoinghere: Somehow, I feel that the shipping and handling charges on that one would be where they get you. For some reason the FedEx site won't accept package dimensions in thousands of kilometers, weights in solar masses, or shipping distances in parsecs."

icelight commented on Graphene Confirmed as the World's Strongest Known Material

"@Log1c: We'll probably need a more efficient means of production than scotch tape and pencil lead for that to happen."

icelight commented on NASA Engineers Team Up With Retirees to Secretly Develop Alternative Moon Rocket

"I love how 5 "official" employees, and however many people they claim to have working for them evenings and weekends ("I have a list of fifty seven known subversive NASA employees!") can run better calculations that the thousands of men and women, plus oversight committees outside of NASA, currently focusing exclusively on Ares."

icelight commented on The Impetus Behind The New Xbox Experience

"I'd say it's much more the direct descendant of Aero on Vista, imagery wise."

icelight commented on I Love It When A Plan Totally Doesn't Come Together

"Some of Horza's crazier plans do work."

icelight commented on The Moon Rocket Project NASA Doesn't Want You to Know About

"Ah, further searching and I stand corrected."

icelight commented on The Moon Rocket Project NASA Doesn't Want You to Know About

"@Thrubeingcool: It looks a great deal like existing rockets because it practically is and existing rocket."

icelight commented on New Dawn Of War II Trailer Forged In The Furnace Of War

""Relic, bless them, aren't afraid to put out a trailer comprised solely of gameplay footage" When your gameplay footage looks better than most people's cinematic trailers, that's exactly the right thing to do."