Yes, everyone should understand that the POTUS has no real power to change the economy. But at the same time I can think of many things that Bush and all elected officials in power did that contributed to this downturn. The POTUS should have the confidence of the public, in this regard Bush is a total failure. President D Roosevelt is credited with ending the Great Depression but there is great debate whether he actually did. What he did do was be a leader in which Americans trust. Obama is probably going to follow this mold, he's already talking about an extended period of financial downturn. Anyone expecting that Obama is going to turn things around in his first term is probably unrealistic.

You mean you want an arrogant obnoxious know-it-all fictional character to play the part of Linux?

Why can't we just pick a hot nekkid chick?

Dude stop it, you're gonna blow some conniving scientists's grant money.

$1.175 million sounds way too low to me. That probably wouldn't cover the light poles, LEDs, or installation, let alone replacing all the thousands of existing light poles.

Wireless power is only practical in short ranges anyway. With standardized cables I wouldn't have drawerfuls of power cables.

I'm I missing something or does this spaceport not actually connect to anything? Ironically you would be travelling the most distance in your life and end not going anywhere. Anyway, hope this will bring actual space travel to the moon, planets, I would even settle for a station on Earth orbit, closer to most people.

"The big surprise that the data indicate those deaths aren't primarily from avalanches or falling ice, as had long been believed."

If you got an hour I highly recommend watching this presentation by Steve Chu, http://fora.tv/2007/09/13/Steve_Chu_A_New_Energy_Program who is Obama's new Energy Secretary. He gives a good concise presentation on the state of energy systems today and how practical they are.

Or could go Earthlink which shares the same cable network as Time-Warner and since Earthlink only offers Internet over Cable they can't try to sell you Cable TV. This is my setup, I called Earthlink and they sent a Time-Warner tech to install.

This might be a practical limit to the GHz race. There's only so much cicuitry that an electron can go through in that short amount of time. Someone work out the math but in that short amount of time an electron can travel less than a feet(30cm) I'm guesstimating. Sorry got an exam in a couple of hours, don't want to break out the paper and pencil just now.

Not to burst your bubble, but to say that most Germans didn't know what was going on with the Jews is disingenous. They surely knew that Jews were being relocated and weren't asking too many questions on where they were going. Jews were being shipped at the rate of tens of thousands per day into concentration camps. Entire neighborhoods were culled and Jewish property were transferred to Germans. You cannot in good conscience tell me that most Germans didn't know what was going on, maybe it wasn't 100% of all Germans who knew but Hitler didn't just wave a magic wand and make Jews disappear. Hitler's racial policy were very clear since the beginning and millions of Germans signed up for it. It's my personal belief that the Holocaust was not a uniquely German event, it could happen anywhere else in the world. That's why we must alwas be vigilant and face the truth, no matter how horrible.

They definitely need to redefine space. When I envision space travel, I imagine traveling to moons and planets. At least they should do something useful like being able to reach the ISS, but from what I gather they're nowhere near that capability.

2009 - Year of Linux. One of the things that set Linux behind is lack of promotion, if Linux and commie China becomes connected somehow, it won't be a good thing.

1)Those normal signs of aging can be attributed to the ongoing damage. For example the DNA that you have now is probably not 100% the same as the one you were born with. Cells have mechanisms that can sometimes repair DNA damage, but this can't catch all problems. In some cells, DNA has been shown to degrade each time a cell is divided, like some sort of counter the number of cell division is not unlimited, that may be the reason why some animals live longer and some like dogs have shorter lives. 2)Some might say the accumulation of damage is important in evolution. Otherwise there would just be replicating molecules and no real life. I agree that it is probably advantageous for the ecosystem to constantly renew itself. An organism that can live 1000 years would probably need to formidable against an organism that can have millions of generations in 1000 years. Longetivity is probably not that big an advantage in the natural world.

Why controversial in the first place? Was there strong evidence that water never existed on Mars before? This is science, not religion. We believe whatever the data indicates, and if we are proven wrong, no biggie, science is served either way.