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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

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News: Doctors scheduled to murder a guy in 2017 through brutal decapitation.

 

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@champthom will be most pleased if this works. Might not be as good as his robotic body, but at least maybe he may learn to love again.

 

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This is the science I can get behind. No need to understand things like chemistry or molecular biology or math, just NUKE THE FUCK out of something until it does what you want it to.

 

[TheAmazingAxolotl]

Yes, yes, release more carbon dioxide into the Martian atmosphere. No matter what they tell you, 95.5% carbon dioxide is NOT enough!

 

[Conrix]

This is the science I can get behind. No need to understand things like chemistry or molecular biology or math, just NUKE THE FUCK out of something until it does what you want it to.

Fuck yeah, take that stupid Martians and also demons from Doom!

And also it makes an atmosphere or something, now we just need a magnetosphere before that goes away.

 

[AnOminous]

http://fortune.com/2015/09/10/elon-musk-mars/

If it was just an excuse to get rid of nukes and shoot them into space, I suppose that makes as good an excuse as any.

It really doesn't sound like a great idea, though, to "terraform" something by showering the whole planet in radioactive dust.

Elon Musk is basically just jacking off with this bullshit.

Something that would provide an equal amount of kinetic energy, would be clean, and would have the added advantage of adding more water would be crashing a large ice planetoid into it.

Also, that would be more fun and awesome looking.

Because nothing will really help Mars retain an atmosphere as a planet half the size of Earth without a magnetosphere, i.e., that thing that keeps the solar wind from just blowing our atmosphere off into space.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Doesn't that one treaty forbidding the use of nukes in space kind of get in the way of this "nuke the crap out of Mars" idea?

 

[Dr. Meme]

Then we'll have people fighting about which gender uses which bush.

Males take george sr. everyone else takes dubya

 

[LikeicareKF]

But all that changed when some parents began complaining to the Gloucester County School Board about a “girl” in the boys’ room

that just seems so around the wrong way

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Elon Musk makes lots of ridiculous claims. He claimed earlier that the singularity would occur within our lifetimes. Also he often attempts to take credit for people in his companies that are not him. In general although he is productive he should be taken with a grain of salt

 

[Totenkopf]

He claimed earlier that the singularity would occur within our lifetimes.

I am currently 20 and it will definitely happen in my lifetime, no question.

 

[DuskEngine]

Wait, you mean this wasn't viral marketing for MGS V?

 

[The Lawgiver]

Yeah, this probably isn't gonna end well. I don't think modern medicine is QUITE at the point where this would have a low failure rate. Then again there was that experiment where they got some guy to make another move the same way he was involuntarily via shared electrical impulses (or some other mumbo jumbo like that) so who knows? Maybe we'll have an army of head transplanted, mind controlled, FRANKENSTEIN CYBORG ROBOT GANGSTER POLICE super soldiers at our disposal at some point in the future.

...That probably won't ever happen though.

/Prays that the body is black.

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah, this probably isn't gonna end well.

Considering we can't yet fix a severed spinal column, the absolute best way this ends is with this tard's head, probably massively brain-damaged, on a completely paralyzed body, which is either exactly the situation he's already in or much worse. I guess this is one way to commit a spectacular suicide.

It's also just some bullshit story from FoxNews that I don't even believe.

 

[DuskEngine]

I am serious about the MGS V thing.

Spoiler: big image

 

[CatParty]

Elon Musk makes lots of ridiculous claims.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/17/autos/musk-bond-sub-tesla/

Musk plans to take the movie prop and turn it into an actual car that transforms into a submarine, the very thing it was built to portray in the movie.

"I was disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform," Musk said in a statement provided by Tesla. "What I'm going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it transform for real."

I like this guy

 

[Le Bateleur]

Elon Musk is my spirit animal. He's like a Steve Jobs for the non-anally-retentive.

 

[SpessCaptain]

What if.. Earth was nuked by a civilised Mars and this is just a loop of life between Earth and Mars?

 

[CatParty]

What if.. Earth was nuked by a civilised Mars and this is just a loop of life between Earth and Mars?

Is that a Jaden smith tweet?

 

[Pikimon]

I hope they have a way to fix the severed spinal cord, because the Central Nervous System isn't exactly keen on the whole "neuroplasticity" thing.

Astrocytes in the Central Nervous System just eat away dead nerve cells and form scar tissue. While in the Peripheral Nervous System Schwann cells form cylinders around damaged nerve cells in order to reconnect severed connections.

Now there HAS been some research done by one neurobiologist that has basically suppressed the immuno-response in astrocytes (basically she took some rats, gave it some brain damage which prevented it from walking, then gave it an enzyme which prevented the astrocytes from forming scar tissue and allowed the nerve cells to regrow giving back some function to the legs in the rats) but that research is waaaaay too young to even have any practical applications.