I think its probably likely that this is the time in human pre-history when sun-gods worship overtook moon-god worship, which therefor broke the icy hold on earth's climate, so yes, it is human caused climate change.

If you send extra power into your scanner you can burn away each page as you copy them. Just make sure you bury the carbon ash after, you don't want that in the atmosphere.

Interestingly, the Australian Liberal Party is composed of Liberals, as once represented my Malcolm Fraser, and Teabagging Conservatives, as once represented by John Howard, and now Tony Abbott. Two competing idealogies in the one party, and unfortunately the anti-science teabaggers have taken it over.

then shave it off.

pretty sure its actually illegal to send the data overseas if the privacy regulations are less than in Australia.

and your large format magazine looks really nice in 6 inches. or for that matter magazine or large format child book. You can even load them onto your 4inch phone, and that still isn't particularly satisfying. The larger colourful items want a larger colourful device, ie 10inch tablet, for best experience. But viewing the ebook equivalent of a paperback novel in a paperback novel sized ebook would be so much more satisfying than using these sub-sized 6inch ebooks.

ok, looking at my bookshelves, yep most of the e-book sized books are novels, not picture books or how-to books or atlasses, so no colour is not important in an e-reader used primarily for novels. What is important is to get away from ridiculous small readers and get 7 inch readers,- go on, measure a standard novel, it aint 6 inches.

Are people so dumb they can't read the article where it says: "A lack of detailed photographs". That's a sonar image you are showing us there, which may not even match anything on the sea floor if you listen to the video further linked from that article.

there does seem a lot of people who don't care who care enough to both read and post about this story. Who was the Moron again? And yes, it actually is a very interesting story, and techy, and nerdy. now tell us again why euro crisis, kremlin protests, drug running is techy and nerdy?

could you be more wrong?

"user buttons, pressure sensors and LEDs " Why would you want to interface this way? This will obsolete very quickly. Its direct brain interfacing you need. This is when it gets truly useful.

no because with hypoxia (see other comments), you can no longer do simple maths, and so the maths of the drag won't affect anything.

You are doing ONE drive of only 300 miles in 5 months time and that's your excuse for wasting petrol? That's barely a commute here in Aus. And yes, we would love to replace petrol usage for these trips, that's where the investment should be happening. And yeah, you sound like an Aussie WRX driver too, WRX is short for wanker (does that translate?)

Stapleton: Last and First Men and Starmaker are possibly two of the best books ever, but I would have been surprised to see them on the list. Just read them and consider the concepts he is presenting and the timeframes he is covering.