• The elected officials deciding net-neutrality issues are morons. Killer quote:
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
• The great-great-etc grandparent of us all may have lived as recently as 2000 years ago. Killer quote:
When you walk through an exhibit of Ancient Egyptian art from the time of the pyramids, everything there was very likely created by one of your ancestors -- every statue, every hieroglyph, every gold necklace. If there is a mummy lying in the center of the room, that person was almost certainly your ancestor, too.
• Two red-spot storms on Jupiter will converge in mid-July; visible through backyard telescopes. Killer quote:
"There won't be a head-on collision," she says. "The Great Red Spot is not going to 'eat' Oval BA or anything like that." But the storms' outer bands will pass quite close to one another—and no one knows exactly what will happen.
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