Just to clarify, a Progress can carry that much away from the station, but you don't get it back in useable condition. The Dragon can (in theory at least) not only carry it away, but bring it back down safely.

Small re-entry capsules have been flown on Progress, but the capacity is limited to a few 10s of kg.

Also bear in mind that price for a seat on a Soyuz is what is advertised, not what is necessarily paid. NASA doesn't seem to be very good at negotiating prices and I'm not aware of any of the "Tourists" saying exactly how much it cost them. Informed speculation ranges between "One seat sold pays for the whole flight" to "There's a healthy profit margin built in".

Redstone used liquid fuels too, alcohol and liquid oxygen. WvB was heavily involved in its design.

The Shoemaker-Levy impacts were happening on the side of Jupiter not visible from Earth. Voyager, Galileo and Ulysses all had a different view of the planet, so the view from 3 billion miles away is better than "none at all".

The Kindle is shipped direct from the USA to wherever instead of from the local Amazon at what appears to be a not free cost, and attracts import duties of various kinds on top of the total. Adds about 40 quid (65ccu) to the basic price.

Apart from the aqueducts, roads and sanitation?

I'll go out and come in again...

Unfortunately for your ice sheet theory, the large bluestones are all there is in the area. Glaciation would also have brought huge quantities of identifiable smaller bits right down to gravel size.

I feel safe in speculating that if *you* will not pony up the emails to a US judge, the people who maintain the server farm *here in the US* will.

They can't - they have no access to the emails, because they can't login to the machines and they can't access the encryption keys for the data. All maintenance of the OS/software is done from Australia.

We've had a number of US-based law enforcement bodies over the year try to get hold of our data without going via the appropriate Australian bodies, and it doesn't work out for them. In the end, they have always ended up submitting a request for cooperation via the Australian Federal Police, as they are required to do, and we respond to that request in line with Australian law.

Sorry - I forgot to add a disclaimer to my post: I am the Jeremy Howard of FastMail.FM who was interviewed in the article.

I am a devoted Dvorak keyboard user, but I have to still retain my QWERTY capacity as I don't want to be like "that guy that insisted on Dvorak". Also, as the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out, my Blackberry is QWERTY only. I put new stickers on the keys of my ergonomic keyboard, but not on my laptop keyboard. I just type Dvorak from memory on the laptop. It can be tough though with passwords.

Just in case you need it, in Windows go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages Tab > Text services and input languages > and find US Dvorak or US English on the list of input keyboards.

As someone who fixes PCs for a living I can tell you that Macs are not easy to work with and the parts are expensive. Only having one mouse button in Windows is no fun either.

They are nice machines, until something goes wrong. If you really want to run MacOS, get an Acer and make it a dual-book Hackintosh.

As many people have posted already, there is an API for developers. I use Missing Sync for Palm and BlackBerry, and they get me everything I have in iTunes and then some (calendar etc). What it doesn't get me is the one song that I bought that has FairPlay DRM. Now if Plam is trying to spoof itunes to thinking that a regular iPod is connected, then they will be getting DRM'ed songs onto the Pre. And this is most likely a problem for Apple. If someone writes a FairPlay player for the Pre, there is now a "hole" in the DRM scheme that Apple can not plug. We've seen in previous stories that Apple's DRM contract with the labels requires them to fix any problems within a certain amount of time.

How does it compare to the Top Gear Reliant Robin Shuttle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20