Are you trying to make Mars the next Australia?

While I fully agree we could make this place a Star Trek-like utopian society (a la The Economics of Star Trek), the point is that no matter how seaworthy you make a ship, it can still be sunk. The Earth could still suffer an extinction event that we can't prevent. Mars is really our best Plan B. We have to get in more boats to make sure we stay afloat as a species.

Mars is the easiest of the options. The others - the moon (too little gravity, can never be terraformed), a giant space station (extremely large structure required to contain 1 million humans), Venus (cloud cities perhaps), Jovian satellites (radiation, extreme cold) are tougher options.

Tidal effects are relative to the nearness of the orbit. Such a grandoise statement is not accurate.

From TFA:

Io’s ionosphere interacts with Jupiter’s magnetosphere, a layer of charged plasma that protects the planet from radiation, to create a frictional current that causes radio wave emissions.

Much like our magnetosphere on Earth protects us from radiation so too can that of a moon with an atmosphere and molten core. Mars doesn't have one and thus is hard-hit by solar radiation.

Your statement is accurate if you are talking about Earth's moon, but not correct in other cases.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21551149

Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.

This potentially places the landmass above sea level during a time when humanity could have been present on it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21551149

Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago.

This potentially places the landmass above sea level during a time when humanity could have been present on it.

It's from Wyse, so it's basically a "thin client". Don't get me wrong, Wyse makes good thin clients, but it's not fundamentally different than anything out there already. It's basically a way to run "VDI" (Virtual Desktop Interface) from your pocket.

OK, cool enough, but I can already do that with an app on my smart phone. I can run a plethora of thin client software - Citrix, VMware, Webex, PCAnywhere, Microsoft RDP, VNC... what else? The only unique thing I see here is that you can attach to a larger external screen. With an iPhone you can do that via an Apple TV with mirroring. The experience isn't fantastic but it's only a matter of time for that architecture to improve (same with Android equivalents).

I do not see myself carrying yet another device. I could see myself using my phone this way if the external graphics worked better - and there is nothing technically stopping that from happening now.

Apple or Google/Android could blink and destroy the market for this device.

...welcome our new Tau Cetian overlords!

... is that it's true whether you believe in it, or not.

Pretty cool. The ship was locked up though, so I only got to check out the outside. It's bigger than you'd think.

Sea Shadow in the floating dock

From what I understand they tried to find a museum for the ship but there were no takers. The dock was in rusty/poor condition, but the ship looked garage-kept ;-)

This is complete nonsense. There were more Nazi sympathizers in the US than in France at the time. Some of our 'captains of industry' were helping Germany build it's war machine.

When defeat was inevitable some in France looked around themselves - the British had been decimated on land and had retreated to their island. The US was uninterested. On France's borders were fascist Germany, fascist Spain, fascist Italy, aloof Switzerland and occupied territory. It looked as though Britain would fall quickly (few thought they could hold on alone as they did at the time) and that the new world order would be one of fascism or communism. It was a dark day, and in those times some people will choose a dark side versus the unknown.

And then come the opportunists - you have those kind in any country, who will gravitate to the winning side in hopes for gains for themselves.