From the article:

Taking their investigations one step further, the students calculated that, despite being the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy, the Millennium Falcon would also need to pack some extra energy to overcome the pressure exerted from the intense X-rays from stars that would push the ship back and cause it to slow down. The students say the pressure exerted on the ship would be comparable to that felt at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Pressure? Really? Photons have no mass, how are they expected to apply a pressure on the hull?

Let me tell you how an italian thinks this will develop in the next 10/20 years. People that did not study, that have no ambitions, and that dream only of the next pack of beers will work for the gov for max 2 hours per day out of 8 working hours. People that did study and worked their ass to be good at something (surgery, engineering, you name it) and that are willing to work 15 hours per day will work for the gov 10 of those hours. This is a form of slavery already very common here in Italy where being paid well for being good at something is apparently a crime. I seriously encourage you to change path. I still wonder why you of all people bought this Obama vision.

In the article they say that Voyager has fuel until 2020. What is the fuel for? Communications? Or also for maneuvering? Which orbit will it follows after there is no more fuel?

Then try one of the many mesh packages for OpenWRT: babel, batman, olsrd, wing

Well done, this is just what the worlds needs, yet another wireless mesh network. Do not forget to write a LISP plugin for emacs to run the network.

No basically I just said:
1) I did not like KDE (3&4) default behavior
2) I did not like gnome 2 default behavior
3) I found easier to customize gnome 2 than to customize kde 4
4) I like the gnome 3 default behavior
The sole exception to (4) is the shudown/suspend thing, but this is mostly due to the fact my workflow involves docking the pc in the office and when doing this there are a few glitches with the Usb hub and the serial port.

... oh and I forgot one thing: frames, why all those frames and borders and padding?

KDE's workflow is outdated and most of all IS WRONG. I do not want to see every moment the list of active windows. I do not want a ugly and complex application launcher. In gnome 2 the first things I did after a fresh install was to remove the bottom bar, add a dock (e.g. docky) and enable the expose-like plug-in for compiz. That is the workflow that works for me, and gnome 3 is supporting exactly that, plus the default alt-tab and alt-` is absolutely wonderfull.

Love is the source of all evil, for without love we would not feel, and without feeling there would be no suffering. Love for a woman sparked the troy war, love for a god sparked crusaders, love for money sparked slavery.

It is sad that in the USofA, you have to sped three paragraph just to state that your are not communist. This just because your are making some half positive comment on a piece of text. Witch hunt?

And you clearly cannot distinguish between concept and implementation. A WMN uses chains of repeaters (the mesh routers) to rely a packet from end to another. At each hop a packet is received demodulated processed in order to discover its next hop and then encoded and transmitted again which is at its heart the definition of "a repeater", the you can do it at level 1 (regeneration or cooperative forwarding) , at layer 2 (switching), at L3 (routing) or at the application layer (which is what peer-to-peer networks do). The fact that it is done using WDS, or master/slave chains or using a routing daemon does not change the essence of things.

I do this for a living and my typical hotel manager (or campus, camping, etc) would not know where to start. Maybe for many of us is easy to look for documentation troubleshoot all the quirks you can find on commodity hardware and deploy a wireless network across several floors or several building. But for many people this is not trivial even when you have the usual computer wiz as cousin. Of course you can always for a nice cisco solution with controller, the problem is these solutions are very costly and they still need trained people for setup and deployment.

And if that should not prove up to the task you can always flash those routers with OpenWRT or DD-WRT and try this: wing

Your chain of wireless repeaters is called wireless mesh networks. People have been playing with the for the last 20 years. Now there are several solid companies with thousand of customer around the globe that provide exactly this service. So why this has to be such a complex task? And yes I did use this products both indoor and outdoor and they work fine.

Look for a cheap and reliable wireless mesh networks. Forget cisco and the other big names. Companies like meraki and aerohive will sell you the hardware as well as the management service (for a monthly fee). As an alternative you could look for somebody to deploy custom openwrt based access point with a routing daemon, e.g.: olsr, batman, wing, and many other alternatives.