Only if while we do that we rebrand coal to "Ancient Corpse Turbofurnaces" and solar to "Death Ray Harvesters" and wind mills to "Breeze Annihlators". Then people will BEG for "Atomic Energy"

Well, given its an American agency, I would submit that the logical answer is that they're referring to NFL football fields. This is also how you can tell its coming from NASA, as they used an area from a popular sport to describe something instead of coming up with a way to explain the volume. Typical...

Seriously. So have Apple's fans...

You know... apples... are a symbol of nutritious food products. Woolworths... sells food (presumably nutritious). Maybe "Apple" has no right to trademark a symbol in the public domain in the first place. Anyone consider that?

Seriously, I cannot agree with you more. Apple, in its tradition of being a full 10-15 years behind MS, is what MS was 10-15 years ago. A monopolistic, money hungry, competition destroying block of crap. The thing is, Apple does it while appearing "hip and cool" to the retarded masses (that's you, jack ass fan-tards!). Somebody in the PC market should have litigated against them when they switched to intel back in 2005 because they were "damaging the PC architecture brand". Cause that's what a Mac is. A PC with a stupid case and a bad OS that costs way more than the alternatives.

Now. Watch THIS get modded as troll or flamebait, despite it being true.

Well you can get 200 kW of draw from the ISS if you drain supplementary stored energy from the batteries at the same time as using the space station's solar panels. This is the same way Electrothermal Augmentation works when applied to chemical engines. The 120-130 kW is an on-orbit average to my knowledge, which means that you're actually generating an extra 100-200 percent of that when in direct sunlight to account for eclipse.

Seriously, if they're talking about 64 players on a console for this thing then DICE needs to finally step it up with BF3 (which they BETTER be developing right now... yeah, quit reading this and get back to work!) and have 128 player support at the very least!

Except the legislators want "The People's movements" to be tracked.

That's ok, "Mac user" and "custom case" together in the same sentence doesn't make any sense anyway, for obvious reasons. This isn't targeting the "I want a user friendly happy box shipped to me ready to go" - demographic.

That, and water heaters. Those things are INSANE!!

More importantly, from an engineering perspective their launch vehicle looks like a total scam. They're using hypergolic fuels in a big conjunction of smaller booster systems. This is going to give them crappy aerodynamics (they claim it will be more aerodynamic than the space shuttle. Maybe so, but only if you consider total drag force and then you have to realize that the space shuttle lifts some 10x the amount this is proposed to), and reliability problems from the accumulated probabilistic failure rate of their engines (they want 84 for a 4000kg payload to orbit). Additionally, the partitioning of their fuel among all of these "modules" is going to give them a crappy mass fraction which means they have to use more materials to lift the same payload. In other words I don't think these people have the technical basis on which to claim they'll be successful, if only from a feasibility perspective on their launch vehicle. Could it get things to orbit? Yes. Could it do so reliably and cost effectively? I doubt it. And that's the whole point.

I disagree. A job isn't "what you don't want to do". If it is, you're doing it wrong. A job should be something that brings meaning and a sense of accomplishment to your life which, while you might not always enjoy it, you would miss it if it went away (and I'm not talking about the money part). At least that's the way a lot of my friends and I in basic research view our jobs. Oh wait...

The problem with basic research is that we live in increasingly impatient times. People want more results faster and harder and more extreme. If something doesn't pay off in a few years, no one wants to worry about it. Its "technically infeasible" or some other sort of excuse. One such area where this is obvious is fusion research, another is space exploration. Both will be critical to the continued employment and improvement of the standard of living of mankind. And yet both receive relatively trivial amounts of money when compared to other less pertinent areas of society.

Yes, but isn't it everyone's dream to one day be part of "the top 1 percent"? I mean sure most people are ok with their position in wealth and interwebs and energy usage, but don't you think there's instances where some people want to be in that 1 percent? I know I do. And I'm getting a little tired of everyone who's not in that 1 percent pointing their finger and saying "not fair!" No, it isn't fair. If it was fair then it wouldn't be sought after. And it cannot be denied that a little competition is good for the game.

Right, cause its ok to hack and disrupt everyone else's positive experience of the game. You're one of those 13 year old kids that thinks its "really cool" to get "super h4x" and then take them onto ranked/public/hack free servers, aren't you? The rules are there for a reason, and CCP is not required to give them service any more than any other game, especially since the actual copy of the game is totally free.

Cause hackers... suck so hard that not only can they not get laid, they can't even play video games well either! Piles of n00bey epic failure.

Exactly, I'm stuck with AT&T or Comcast. I just moved from an area where I had FiOS last week.

I miss my FiOS :( And I'd love someone to step in and get some new blood around here so maybe I could get a fast internet connection AND use it too!