Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: >*They called it the greatest discovery in human history.* >*The civilizations of the galaxy call it...***[MASS EFFECT](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4_NZbns7r2c#t=38s)** I like that quote so much because it's what ME1 ....
Comment preview: That makes sense, assuming you are a 20-something and of the same generation as myself. See, we have been growing up as young adults in a crisis. But we need to keep in mind that history has shown these things are cyclical, and after every major crisis the ....
Comment preview: But I also love that we *can* see beauty in the science. This is the kind of thing I bring up with people of faith who "feel sorry for me" because of my atheism and think I have nothing but a cold, unfeeling scientific universe. The more I learn about scie ....
Comment preview: Be careful. It's a fascinating world that goes deep. I did not expect it to when I first thought several years back "Hmmm... I wonder what the tree this board comes from looks like... I'll just google it." That lead me on a several year journey I did not e ....
Comment preview: A pre-release copy of Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons was discovered on a 20 year old floppy disk, and can be downloaded or played online at [RGB Classic Games](http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Commander_Keen:_Invasion_of_the_Vorticons.html). ....
Comment preview: Juggernaut with base attack speed, 0.714 attacks per second. Juggernaut with +500% attack speed, 4.286 attacks per second. + 3.571 attacks per second. Normal hero with base, 0.588 attacks per second. Normal hero with +500%, 3.529 attacks per second. + 2.94 ....
Comment preview: haha so I was playing Skyrim (on my PC obviously, as if I would ever stoop low enough to play an Xbad 360) and as I was playing my girlfriend pointed out that my character had the ability to carry an inordinate amount of items. I was all like, "Woah! In re ....
Comment preview: >A manned mission was quickly organized by humanity in light of this amazing discovery, and less than a decade later the first man stepped on Mars. A historic moment. >But that was not the goal: this mysterious Starbucks was still there just like the ....
Comment preview: Link to his Phd thesis at MIT: http://erikdemaine.org/theses/mpatrascu.pdf In introduction he describes how he made this amazing discovery as an undergraduate: "Since my first paper in 2003, I kept working on a very silly dynamic problem: prove a lower bou ....
Comment preview: Depends on context and age. For example ... i was once taking off the diaper of a chubby white 3 year old after his nap and this little black girl who just learned to walk (well, run, she was super quick) rushed to us with eyes big with excitement, pointin ....
Comment preview: The body of King Tutankhamen. Imagine, 1922, you're Howard Carter, just having stumbled upon the entrance to his tomb. Inside, you see a chamber stuffed with golden treasures, surrounding a large stone chamber you know to be the resting place of a very imp ....
Comment preview: tl;dr on the papers 1. exit nodes can be sniffed (vidalia throws a fit if you try using cleartext auth) 2. when your bittorrent client is set to do tracker communication over tor, the bittorrent protocol still might leak your real IP. 3. directory servers ....
Comment preview: I think i just did an amazing discovery! Try focus on this like its a autostereogram picture, magic things will happen. More on what autostereogram is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram How to make the magic happen: 1. Hold the picture up to your ....
Comment preview: **[Facebook screenshot](https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/99547/rh_fb.jpg)**. **[ArenaNet Twitter screenshot](https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/99551/Sin_t_tulo.png)**. >**Robert Hrouda** ....
Comment preview: I've been involved with the Tevatron for the past 15 years. I've watched the Tevatron transition from an 800-GeV fixed target machine (20 second, 1/2 integer extraction, once per minute) to a 980-GeV (single beam energy) proton-antiproton collider. The fi ....
Comment preview: I was the culprit, the classroom had those desks where the chair is attached to the desk and had a metal wire bookholder underneath. While sitting in this uncomfortable desk/chair abomination I accidentally slipped my shoe wet from the outside rain across ....
Comment preview: Except there is. Just don't be lazy and do some research. - Her sister and lawyer (who basically protected her and their privacy for all those years) died three months ago. - The novel wasn't "forgotten" and "re-discovered" since it's her first polished an ....
Comment preview: So I just made an account to post here - this is going to be my first (and maybe only) post ever on reddit. Anyway, I very very much recognize your story and situation from when I was in highschool and the first years of university. I was very lonely, had ....
Comment preview: "Daddy, did dragons really exist?" "Why of course, son. They were magnificent Pokemon. In the beginning of my journey, they were almost unstoppable. I was drawn to their power. My bond with dragons made me one of the most powerful trainers in the whole reg ....
Comment preview: Actually, I think this piece by The Onion misses the point. It should be: PUBLIC FINDS GAPING HOLE IN LOGIC OF SCIENTISTS Columbus, OH -- An elderly woman reading the news found errors in years-long study of a group of international scientists today. She s ....
Comment preview: The last years she only had her sister to take care of her, now she's dead and H.L is pretty much alone. She doesn't need the money giving that she's still worth dozens of millions. But yeah funny coincidences you'd say ? Her sister/lawyer dies and suddenl ....
Comment preview: Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155. My political beliefs are liberal and leftist, I listen to Metal and I enjoy violent movies, books and videogames, and I've been a Christian since birth. Baptised, confirme ....
Comment preview: 1. I start a timer for 24:00:00. 2. I look up the location of Sutter's Mill, in California, and the locations of all the really big, easy-find gold nuggets of the California gold rush. 3. I acquire a gun from somewhere. Probably a pawn shop. 4. I scope out ....
Comment preview: Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155. My political beliefs are liberal and leftist, I listen to Metal and I enjoy violent movies, books and videogames, and I've been a Christian since birth. Baptised, confirme ....
Comment preview: Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155. My political beliefs are liberal and leftist, I listen to Metal and I enjoy violent movies, books and videogames, and I've been a Christian since birth. Baptised, confirme ....
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