I'm pretty sure this is an April Fools joke. While it would be *theoretically* possible to cancel out an earthquake by producing waves of the exact same amplitude but opposite phase, people are forgetting the "same amplitude" part. Earthquakes generate a HUGE (absolutely HUGE) amount of energy, and you have to throw the exact same amount of energy (with inverted phase) back at it. How are they going to generate this huge amount of energy? Certainly not with a few speakers. Even small earthquakes generate as much or more energy than a nuclear weapon.

Will Ukraine be changing their national anthem to the Imperial March? Cause that would be pretty awesome.

I don't think Carter was implying that he SHOULD be prosecuted, but rather just stating that it is inevitable that he WILL be if he returns to the US. Meaning, there is nothing he or anyone else could do about it.

It was a season 4 episode of Deep Space 9. O'Brien is arrested on an alien world for "espionage" for asking too many innocent questions (I guess that society frowned on curiosity). He is thrown in prison, and serves what he thinks is a 20 year prison sentence where he is barely fed, and he and his cellmate have to hoard food so they don't starve during the times they "forget" to feed them. O'Brien eventually kills his cellmate over a few pieces of bread. Then surprise! He wakes up in a chair with a bunch of blinky lights on it, and Dax and Sisko are there, and it turns out only a couple hours of real time had actually passed, and the experience was just implanted into his mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... Good episode, but I'm not sure I'd want to see that happen in real life. It caused him a lot of psychological problems.

No kidding, it would be rather scary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Maybe the plane is on an alien planet with a bunch of metallic alien stingrays! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

I know you said that in jest, but I've seen a LOT of people make serious comments like that. Cats are acutally obligate carnivores, they can live entirely on protein and fat. They have absolutely no metabolic need for carbohydrates. Their digestive systems convert protein directly to glucose.

That makes sense to me. I used to like driving when I was younger...but now it's just a chore. I just want to get to where I'm going. I HATE long drives. If I had a car that drove itself while I did something else, did exactly the speed limit, etc, I would welcome it.

Creationism does not belong in schools AT ALL, except in very specific contexts. In a religion or theology class, sure. In a science class? Hell no.

Raspberry...there is only one man who would DARE give me raspberry!

Pretty much, just look at the pretty aurora. Worst case scenario is some satellite communications will be disrupted. The atmosphere provides more than adequate shielding against such things.

They didn't have to discover Pandora. It is in the Alpha Centauri system, 4.37 LY from Earth. This solar system is unique in that it is our closest neighbor by quite a bit, and would thus be the logical first interstellar destination.

Step 1: Get drive loaded with crap Step 2: Add as a second drive to Linux machine Step 3: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb Step 4: Profit!

Wait until some company tries to say that people are violating their "intellectual property" by not following the rules in the box, and try to start suing people for it. I have so little faith in humanity that I fully expect to see this.

Sorry, that won't work either. The crust has lots of naturally occurring radioactive material in it. The deeper you go, the more stuff you find. A lot of the interior of the planet is kept warm by radioactive decay. And this is the ionizing stuff, not just EM. Plus, don't forget things like cosmic rays and neutrinos that can penetrate a great deal of solid matter. He also better not have ANY light sources whatsoever in this house. If he has so much as a light bulb then what he is claiming is false. Visible light is even higher frequency than his horrible 2.6 GHz wifi.