But stop signs are an inefficient method of traffic control when taken literally. I take stop signs to mean slow to a crawl, and take turns passing. Be aware of who is around you, and cooperate to get by. Don't speed off. Be predictable.

It's more complicated than 'come to a full and complete halt'. I think that 'stop' was just the easiest word to describe the task.

Try getting on a bike and going for a ride. You'll get a new respect for momentum once you're providing it and not just pressing a gas pedal.

I work as a rainfall hydrologist. One of the cooler facts that I've learned in my career is that even large parking lots have been shown to cause convective thunderstorms. It would be incredible to see one of these things pumping water and heat into the atmosphere. These things would literally be storm engines - pouring thunderheads into the east!

No, it traps solar energy from the sun, that would otherwise be reflected back towards space. I am curious as to what effects this will have on local climate. Although there is no carbon emission from this technology, we are surely dumping excess heat into the upper atmosphere that was not there before.

Maybe 40 years ago. Boulder hippies are a dying breed. The county has recently become "californicated" by girls with too-big sunglasses and ugs, and straight-brimmed hat snowboard thugs. If you're looking for the hippies, Bozeman MT is supposed to be closer to what Boulder was 40 years ago.

This is true. But it also begs the question: If individual Nations should not be entitled to stake claim on celestial bodies, by what right do they claim Earth and its regions? This planet is also a celestial body after all. Perhaps things started going downhill once humans started believing that they 'owned' anything.

This series needs a reboot. The original was a groundbreaking and massively fun RTS that gave us a glimpse of what the genre held for the future. Then Relic released a series of increasingly lackluster expansions, and finally the atrocity of Dawn of War 2.

Bill Nye was too much of a straight up dweeb for me. I preferred Beakman's World. The huge rat and weird-girl made a good sidekick duo.

And dudes, don't forget Mr Wizzard!

To my understanding, it's not measuring 'differential oxygen uptake' like you explain. It's measuring an impulse response through the axon/neuron/dendrite, which is an electro-chemical signal derived from potassium and some other compound. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's oxygen that gives neurons their charge.

I had him as my Physics 2 prof during my undergrad years.

One thing I never understood about him was his compulsion to call 'derivatives'...'potatoes'. Take the potato here. Reverse potato here. The solution is the potato. Coupled with his thick european (swiss maybe?) accent, it made for one of the bigger WTF moments in my college career.

And when life gives you cheese, it probably came from one of those damn kraftworlds.

Specialized breeds are not the same as intelligent design.

We all know that man has selected and bred preferable traits. But we did not design different breeds of dogs. Are we so arrogant to think that we have specifically 'designed' things like a nervous system, muscle structure, skeletal structure etc.?

All we did was make two different dogs get it on and have a puppy. Nature did the designing.

As to whether or not nature is intelligent is another debate, but I think most ppl here will agree that it is not.

It's better to adhere to tried and true game mechanics than drastically change the gameplay just for the sake of change. The game is called Starcraft2. It should retain the core mechanics of its predecessor because it's a sequel. My case in point is Dawn of War 2. Relic has alienated its core audience by making a game that doesn't resemble its successful predecessor. I consider DoW2 a sequel to DoW only in name. It should have been called something else, because its completely different from what came before it.

Yes, but also consider that this receiver is the ground based overhead we would need. If one solar power sat proves successful, all we have to do is launch more. They can all use the same receiver. I don't know why people are so cynical about this project. This is an engineering problem that CAN be solved, and it gives us legitimate reason to develop space tech. This isn't poinless science like the real waste of resources that is the ISS (how will plants grow in 0g?*sigh*)

Not to mention, these solar satellites could be used to block incident sunlight, possibly offsetting our carbon emissions and cooling the planet at the same time.

A more ambitious solution exists that does not hold such unpredictable consequences. We currently are investing billions in solar cell technology. The next step is to put mass produced panels in space and transmit power to the surface. It would kill three birds with one very large stone. And maybe some more birds would die from the microwave transmissions for power transfer, but I want to emphasize the benefits. It could provide us with a relatively clean energy source that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide a global cooling effect by blocking incident sunlight, and free up land space that is being taken up by solar crop fields. I know I'm not the first to think of this idea. Larry Niven's ringworld had a similar system to simulate day/night. Slashdot had an article earlier about how science fiction influences future technology. This concept is one that is ambitious, but could save the planet. The only thing to figure out is whether or not it's practical.

Yes, in my opinion we do in fact need to consider the existence of all biomass on earth, which includes the pain that any life experiences.

I would not say that a bug zapper is equivalent to the holocaust, but it is a tool that is often unnecessarily used. Killing bugs with a zapper is sometimes a symptom of a problem that can be prevented. I'm not a pest expert, but I do know that eliminating standing water in your yard will hinder mosquitos from breeding. There are other things that can be done to mitigate all pests. But alas, the bug zapper does have its role in areas where mosquitos are a serious problem.

This is about living in harmony with the planet we have inherited. It is irresponsible to callously maime and slay life just because we are going to eat it. If we are to take nourishment from life, then that life should be treated with respect.