Most/all of us in the US are brought up to think insects and similar animals are "icky and gross" No wonder we wouldn't want to eat them.

Have been looking in SoCal for 18+ months... job market sucks!

With my full formal name, there is a small time but apparently known actor who gets all the hits... with my use name, there's a car dealership in the midwest USA owned by a guy with that name. Nothing about me comes up for a number of pages, so I guess I'm somewhat safe from stalkers :)

Actually there's plenty of evidence of water on Mars... get your facts straight.

With users like this, who needs Malware?

What information is so important that you have to deal with it in this fashion? Just curious...

Evidently you haven't played since then... it's changed just a bit...

From article: "Conrad Farnsworth is the first person in Wyoming to build a nuclear fusion reactor. He is one of only 15 high school students in the world to successfully achieve fusion. He made it using parts he ordered online, traded with other fusioneers and created himself." So this and 15 other high school students have been able to achieve what no other scientist in the world has been able to achieve to date? Hmmm.

obligatory "The Fly" movie quote...

So... you bought or made them all buy Macs? That must have been a great xmas! (and very expensive).

I'm amazed we survived for so long without texting while driving. Whatever will we do if it becomes illegal in any form? Oh the horrors!

Good thing I saw this article, THEN looked at my pending updates... I had just set up my new computer with Win7 64bit yesterday... and of course had tons of updates to do... Wonder why it stayed in the list even after I refreshed if there's such an issue with it?

But Mr. Sagan didn't have any proof at the time... now there's much more evidence :)

Actually, "within 0.25 AU" puts them too close to their star to be habitable... i.e. not in the goldilocks zone :( PS 1 A.U. is the distance of the Earth to the Sun, just in case you didn't/don't know.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cooper+basin+australia&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&split=1&filter=0&rq=1&ev=p&t=h&sll=-31.147006,142.229004&sspn=3.112009,5.916138&hq=cooper+basin+australia&hnear=&ll=-31.147006,142.229004&spn=3.112009,5.916138&z=8 Circular shape here, about the right size...