Fallon? Pisshhh, we were doing balls in your mouth back in highschool. ...no wait, not that way! Thats not what I meant!

You're probably joking or trolling but why the hell not?!

Cows produce huge amounts of it at regular intervals and its already part of the carbon cycle. Industrialized cattle farming (the cow forklift to slaughterhouse variety) probably releases enough methane to power itself. Plus they are likely located far from a power plant (wide open spaces and all) so you get back all the transmission losses as well! Sounds like a win win to me. Someone should get on it to see if it pans out. I know some farms already employ methane capture for power so why don't all of them?

Nahh, thats no fun. If we play the politics game we get some fun facts(ish): Obama has delivered Michelle Bachman's promise of $2 gas (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/19/michele-bachmann-stands-by-2-a-gallon-gas-pledge/) and is on track to deliver Mitt Romney's promise of 12M new jobs (or get real close anyway, 2.5M jobs are currently being added each year). Of course we all know the main connection between administrations and economic issues is taking credit when things are good and getting blamed when things are bad. (That said there are exceptions such as deregulation->mortgage crisis...getting off topic here)

If we want to be fair, these new methane regulations are merely holding oil producers accountable for the consequences of their activities. If that reduces production then its only reverting back to what it should have been all along had all costs been considered at the outset.

Side note: since those industrious oil scamps increased production all on their own without federal handouts (i.e. access to fed managed land) then we no longer need to consider drilling in ANWR and the like, right?

If congress defunds the EPA, a lot of US citizens will also find some balls....throughout their bodies. Some internally, some externally and some on their pre-existing balls themselves!!!

Is his complete failure to reduce production the reason you (likely) hate him? Since Obama took office, oil production has increased 50%:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hi...

The reason it's probably going to drop precipitously in the next few months/year is due to the whims of OPEC, not the administration. Do heartland states really want to tie your economies so tightly to how Arabs are feeling?

While fun to point out, I don't see that as especially relevant. The republicans of the early 1900's are in no way comparable to those we are living with today. Back then they were the progressive party. TR created the federal environmental conservation movement! 40ish years earlier, republicans freed the slaves! Unfortunately at some point, something went drastically awry*

*IM(logic based)O

Maybe, but you haven't proven that. You quoted cost per student. I quoted cost per tax payer, of which there are vastly more of. Second, this guy

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/d...

Says the cost per student is closer to $10k (if you add all the graphs). I'll give you that private school is still cheaper but for high school its pretty close.

Who modded you up? The federal government spends (not including loans) about $140B/year on education (http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/education-federal-budget). Thats out of $3.4T so just about 4%. Total tax income is only ~$2.5T so some of that 4% comes from debt but I'll give you the higher percentage anyway. The median tax bracket is 25% so on a salary of $50k/year, the average person has to pay about $500/year on federal education costs.

States spend about 40% on education (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2783). The average american has a 10% state tax burden (http://taxfoundation.org/article/annual-state-local-tax-burden-ranking-fy-2011) so they are paying about $2k to the state for education.

A rough estimate for total public education cost to "Most of us" is $2500. How many private schools have yearly tuition for less than that? Community colleges? Colleges? pre-schools???

Thanks for your uniformed and incorrect comment. Sometimes one of these inspires me to (internet) research the topic enough for a properly cited rebuttal and in the process I learn something. Hopefully you do too.

Classic. My favorite kind of idiot.

Nahh, you're playing the conspiracy advocate. In light of additional supporting evidence for the established story you're adding more layers of increasingly unlikely scenarios to support your predetermined conclusion. Don't worry, most humans are hard wired to do it.

Like someone above posted, using a NK IP address as a proxy is extremely unlikely since they only have about 1000 total IP addresses. Lucky for you, the conspiracy onion can support an infinite number of layers...so no, I can't prove it wasn't aliens.

Can both of those be true? I'd imagine corporations are going to work really hard to make sure they figure out the real you...

Yeah I understand the scale involved. I was just complaining. You can ignore my post and chalk it up to NSFPP (non-space-faring people problems)

I do realize they are clouds, they look kinda like the growth of a mushroom cloud which to me suggested a point of origin. The weird part is that the pillars are linear and not radial. Anyway I'll buy that explanation...mostly cause I don't know any better but sounds plausible enough for me to not want to spend 5 years working out the equations myself.

I zoomed all the way in to the very far right of the image and with an incredibly crude estimation, determined there were about 10,000 stars displayed on my monitor. At the darkest part of the image. Whats weird is how close together they look. How come everything looks so far away from us?

Looks like the pillars have a leading edge with debris trailing off. What set something that massive, with that shape, in motion? And where is it going?