LOL @ Eva. I thought it was "Rusty Lemonade", too.

I remember Captain EO. And America Sings. I liked the first. I can barely remember the second. Oh, well.

I'm not sure if quantity over quality is such a good thing in this day and age. Infant mortality if pretty low in the Western world, so having lots of kids as an insurance policy seems like overkill. Especially if you're going to be passing on those undesirable traits to lots and lots of inbred babies.

Not that third cousins are that close, anyway. You'd have to share a great-great-grandparent with the other person. Much of the rest of the world marries closer cousins than that!

"Pairing her vomiting with the shock should extinguish the reflex in her body, as it has been used with infants with similar problems ingesting milk."

@ Akiro: What scary place do you live in where they use electric shock on infants?

I wonder if this girl has been tested for parasites. That could explain the vomiting... especially if this has been going on for years.

I was wondering what they did with makeup for high-definition filming. You either have to have flawless skin, or some pretty fancy makeup.

Interesting! But it's still hard not to see the whole thing as we know it (my brain still wants to see the "oceans" as the continents it's familiar with).

Way to ruin the ambient charm of the place.

Here's one of the solutions:

http://www.smart-kit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/carnival-puzzle-game-answer.jpg

Even using that, though, I can still only get 99.98%. I don't know if there's an actual trick to it, or if you just need really good spatial abilities.

Most I can get is 99.97%. I can't figure out the trick, either.

4000 kilometres in diamater? Wouldn't that make those diamonds pretty cheap? That's assuming we could devise an economical way of getting up there to mine. Oh, well.

Why is Neatorama so full of paradigm-constipated prigs these days? It's NEATorama. These things are NEAT. They'll probably be less neat when they've been explained away by people who don't want to accept anything that threatens their cozy little belief systems. But until then, what's wrong with saying, "Hmmm... that's interesting," and then moving on without throwing Alex to the wolves? You don't have to prove how smart you are or how many engineering degrees you have. If you feel like you do, go visit an appropriate forum and stop attacking people here for seeing the world for the surprising and mysterious place it is.

First we're gave ourselves vitamin D deficiencies, now we're killing the coral.

Yay for sunscreen.

Actual costs of treatment aside, healthy people won't be in the hospitals as much. This article doesn't take into account bed shortages, the cost of updating beds and hospital floors to account for heavier people, doctors being tied up taking care of obesity-related illnesses, etc.

And I question the accuracy of the numbers presented here. If you divide cost by the number of years, you still find obese people being cheaper. If the higher cost of healthy people is truly just because they live longer, then that should be reflected in a year-by-year cost. I find it difficult to believe that a healthy person who suddenly drops dead at 84 would be more expensive than someone who lives the last 20 years of his/her life with diabetes, heart disease, possible amputations, heart bypasses, etc.

I don't really care how big the GDP is in the US. You've got a large population of poor people, no universal health care AND a looming health care crisis (thanks to the obesity rate), and people defaulting on their mortgages and losing their homes... all despite your big GDP.

It's like bragging you have a big penis... and yet not knowing how to use it properly.

Well, to be fair, people might think the Six-Day War question was a trick question. Especially if they were thinking of the Hundred Years' War. The answer to that is not quite as simple...

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Gandhi

What is all of this revenge accomplishing, except creating more "need" for revenge with each death? Thank goodness not everybody thinks like this guy. We'd all be dead.

If his dead family is looking down on him, I'm sure they're very proud. Sheesh.