well, it's a fad that comes and goes, I got mine in the early 90's, when people said 'oh you'll regrett that, it's only a fad', still love it to this day.
people have been tattooing themselves for centuries so I doubt it's going anywhere soon. Of course, one should think it through befoer going and getting tattooed.
considering the sales of classic coke went sky-high after the new coke experiment, I can fully understand why google did it.
Somebody will probably point out that if you could focus all the sunlight that falls on a small town, you could make a hostile spacecraft very uncomfortable, though you couldn't get them any hotter than the surface of the Sun.
Hmmm , reminds me of the book "The Mote in GOd's eye", where there is a ship with a solar sail using the sail to focus beams of light as a defence mechanism on another ship trying to investigate it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God's_Eye
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they're not *required* to extradite him, but if UK don't send him over, then the risk is that US will flick UK the bird next time UK wants someone extradited.
Countries also have deals where they promise to send over anyone the other country believes to have committed a crime (within reason I suppose).
That's why all british gangsters went to Spain back in the day, spain refused to extradite anyone from Spain to UK due to tensions over Gibraltar
rather off-topic, but anyway....
regarding the moon head towards earth, not sure i understand what you mean. the moon is currently moving away because of the tides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Tidal_evolution
Well, islam is not supposed to have any other deities, etc than god/allah himself, so basically Muhammed was just a normal guy like you and me, although he got to speak with god or something. Never understood this islam cult of muhammed, is this a new thing? All seems a bit like catholism to me with all their saints, etc
and so they should! We like our public servies
Well, I have 2 AMD systems back home, one is from 2003 and the other is early 2006, both works fine, the older being my file server. About to upgrade and I cannot see any reason why not to go with AMD again.
Off course, this does not prove anything
I agree that the planet itself in not in trouble. However the current ecosystem is in a bit of peril, some say that we're currently living through the 6 great extinction of earth, but iirc the jury is still out on that one.
Anyway, nothing like a global spring cleaning once in a while!
well, reactors are a bit different than actual nukes, however I do agree it's bloody silly to keep them in LEO. For missions going elsewhere I can live with them.
Even US used nuclear power sources; voyager used RTGs iirc, although that bit more benign than actual reactors
well, it's far less cold than it used to be, despite the letest rattlings from russia. US and russia now sogned another agreement to get rid of some of their stockpile. I think russia and US are quite-ish happy with the current status quo.
Why shake the bees nest by creating am orbiting nuke? By doing that US basically tells the world it's not giving a damn about the treaties they agrees to and all hell will be breaking lose (russian, china, etc all putting nukes in LEO, seeling nukes to countries that should not have it, etc, etc)
Especially as mentined elsewhere, they already pretty much have this cabability with subs.
They might use it with things like a MOAB is similar but bigger in there, packs quite a punch as well
doubt that, nukes not allowed in space, don't think russia, et. al. would be too impressed if this turned out to be a nuclear payload delivery mechanism. Anyway, all that just sounds a bit cold war-ish and soooo last century.
The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Aldo Leopold
