and even before that, all japanese "custom" motorcycles were tweaked to sound like they were broken, because without the tweaks they did not sound quite like harleys.

This has already been mentioned in a comment above, look for the title "Light drag?".
A theory of this kind has existed since 1929. See "tired light" on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I am not a physicist myself, but physics is a very interesting topic for me. A long time ago I theorized along these lines, and when I spoke about it with physicists, they told me that my hypothesis has already been considered, and it has a name, and that name is "tired light".

See "tired light" on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But that's all irrelevant to the article. Proper gravity for comfortable space travel is not the issue here; the issue is minimizing the cost of the travel. And sleeping astronauts travel a lot cheaper than woken ones. Plus, they don't need gravity. Unless someone is under the impression that proper gravity will help with the muscles of sleeping astronauts, which I highly doubt.

There are far easier ways to do it. For example, the entire ship can be a wheel, instead of having to be a ship with a wheel on it. And it does not even have to be shaped like a wheel. Tether the living compartment to a spent rocket stage, and let the two rotate around their common weight center which will be at some point along the tether line.

OK, for the past several weeks, I swear, every day, this happens to me: when I have the privilege to mod, nothing worth modding gets posted. And whenever I do not have this privilege, all the interesting posts get posted. Aaaargh!

... with all fraternities and sororities using the term "Greek"...

"the distance that grate"? fuck you!

As others have already pointed out, BitTorrent Sync is the answer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
It supports Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, you name it.
And you are not limited to syncing between your phone and your PC; you can also sync between multiple PCs and many other devices.
Highly recommended.
The only disadvantage is that it is not open source.
Hopefully the ClearSkies project will succeed, and in the future we will have all these advantages using an open source solution.

Expect a knock on your door shortly.

I wish there was "Like" on slashdot! For this, and for Jeremiah Cornelius' "Have you got a 27B / 6 ?"

It is spelled "Nazis".

Tickets to the space elevator.
When will I be able to buy one?

Wow, let me guess: you have got to be Greek!

Then how about you also lose all your property rights by storing your valuables in safe deposit boxes in banks?