Which I do

It's ok, Mr Hammond. I'm a scientist, and as such I'll do these experiments at home if I fucking want to!

theoretically, yes

Did you hear them complaining about it? I sure didn't

Whatever happened to real art?

Not nearly as intense as I thought it was going to be

It sounds like he starts running low on HARDCORE juice after a minute and slows down.

These were students! They're not going to have freaking guns! It looks like they did what they could but yeah, those Combine troopers are something to fear.

All around this nation we see stories EVERY day in the news of the police acting more like gestapo then protecting the free. I hope you folks realize that our own version of the STASI are constantly monitoring popular sites like the sift and casually jotting down who is who and what they think.

Analyzing how likely each of us might be a potential "terrorist threat." You guys know that is still going on, right?

That Obama actually kept the government spying program going instead of shutting it down like he promised?

You guys realize that is still happening, right?

Yep, that's not going to be there for much longer...


Better get there while you can.


For some reason the rocks look safer to climb over than that pathway...


Also, how is this Eia?

This happens in the southwest US fairly often as well. It's pretty trippy to be driving through a town you can only see a chaotic 10 foot radius of. The Mojave is a very dynamic and weird place, especially when 80+ mph sustained winds are involved.

great animation, useless piece of crap inefficient machine.

I'm a geologist. I wouldn't be one if I didn't love doing it and seeing the wonderful things that I see all over the world. For me, NOT knowing about something makes makes it intrinsically less interesting than knowing about it. That's why we scientists do what we do. We are DRIVEN to know, or to figure something out because we understand that as soon as that knowledge or understanding is revealed, we are often struck with an overwhelming sense of accomplishment and wonder.

To the layman a volcano is just a mountain that occasionally blows up or spews lava, but to a geologist a volcano is an elaborate treasuretrove of smaller wonders like mineral deposits, hydrothermal vents, different rocks that show how the magma mixed within the chamber, or what other nearby volcanoes might be associated with the same magma system, and many other minute details.

A LOT more wonder and amazement can be gained or found through the pursuit of knowledge and science, than with sustained ignorance.

As someone once photoshopped: Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the special olympics: Even if you win, you're still retarded.



Don't act like you've never done it either.

Running away is a skill?

As if we should know the intricacies of eastern European Trashcanistans like they can all list the all the small cultural differences between northern and southern Californians...


No matter where these guys live they are
1)male
2)idiots
3)human

Just like many of us Americans!

Though one could argue the 3rd for many of our "elected" officials