The Wittiest, Most Insightful Comments on WIRED This Week

There was a lot to comment on this week, and you guys were up to the challenge. Facebook gobbled up Oculus, Microsoft Office came to iPad (uh, finally), we learned Facebook drones will beam Wi-Fi, got a look at Michael Bay's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, and shared scientific graphs of the highs and lows of your favorite TV shows, and on and on.

We can't highlight every single moment you were clever, but here's a hefty sampling.

Funny
Google+ fan Phil Taylor, who hails from down under, had a realization about Huawei, the company at the heart of this article, How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA’s Surveillance Nightmare.

At first I was concerned about the potential for China to spy using Huawei devices. Then I remembered I live in Australia and our broadband network is 15 years out of date. I don't know if Huawei make dial up modems....

Upon hearing the news that Facebook Will Build Drones and Satellites to Beam Internet Around the World, Ian Whittington and Leroy Barlow had some thoughts:

Observant
Facebook fan Philip Jackson pointed out that the asteroid with Saturn-like rings around it looks an awful lot like a subwoofer. Hey, look, you're kind of right, Philip.

Smart
An informative discussion happened at the bottom of the comment thread of this article highlighting an amazing use for design and technology, "A Giant Basket That Uses Condensation to Gather Drinking Water".

Witness Testimony
Reader Juniper took to the comments of "50 Years Ago This Terrifying Megaquake Jolted an Entire Ocean" to recount hearing a broadcast of the quake on the radio:

I heard a recording in Geology class in college of a DJ broadcasting during the quake. It's not so much what he narrates during the quake, it's the fact that the recording is over 4 minutes long that's so disturbing.

This prompted reader Andriba to share their terrifying, first-hand experience of a similarly large quake:

The Tohoku earthquake of March 2011 lasted 6 minutes, but our office in Tokyo was swaying for 45 minutes. For the first 20 minutes or so we couldn't move, after that it was like being on a ship in rough seas.

Acronymtastic
You guys geeked out in the best way possible in the comments of this post, "Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases". If you're a server-enthusiast and have strong feelings about PostgreSQL vs. MySQL, check out the whole thread.

Punny
Of course, you wouldn't let the week end without some puns. Here's one we enjoyed from the comments section of "With Office for iPad, Microsoft Kills Its Old Ideology".

+1 indeed.