Anybody want to start a Flying Spaghetti Monsterism theme park? It would be a lot of fun, and the government should be willing to fork over an equivalent amount of funds. Kidding aside, this is how the fight against creationism being taught along side evolution was won, and that was just a "paper" effort. Here, we can actually get government funding, and build something that would attract tourism dollars, educate people, and maybe turn a profit.

I don't know how bats do it, but CDMA allows several phones and several base stations to operate in overlapping areas on the same frequency. The transmission is "coded" in such a way that to everyone else, it just appears as noise. Kind of like your "voice" thought, but think of it as "language". You can be in a room with many people talking in different languages, and you can pick up a conversation in a language you know, and discard the rest as noise.

I had a love-hate relationship with my 150-in-1. I could build oscillators that generated tones, and change the tones, and what not. But it never really explained why/how it worked. It had PNP and NPN transistors ... But the difference between them? No info. They act like switches? Excellent. They act like amplifiers? Ok ... cool. Connect them like this and they oscillate. Say what?

I eventually moved up to a 250-in-1 kit with digital logic chips. That was cool! You could understand how a flip flop worked by tracing the logic 0's and 1's. Although analog circuits came before digital ones, digital ones are easier to grok, which leads to more learning. At least, in my case it did.

Add to that not wanting to be pregnant during the hot summer months, and wanting to avoid "cabin fever" (for those of us living with serious amounts of winter snow) with a newborn baby, and you're pretty much left with a spring birth.

Prior art? How about the reserve tank on a Motorcycle? You move a lever, and you can operate the motorcycle to the nearest gas-station. I can't see this patent passing.

That the pulsars move relative to each other (and us) is true - but this is an extremely minor point. The pulsars all have very large masses, which means it would take something HUGE to alter their trajectory significantly. Until that happens, that large mass translates to very predictable movement.

The periodicity of the pulsar is more problematic. With a sudden introduction of mass, or a sudden readjustment in the matter of the pulsar, the frequency can abruptly change. And yet, this isn't even so much of an issue. The pulsars will be monitored from some location (Earth or otherwise), and changes to their behaviour can be uploaded to the Galactic Positioning System receivers shortly after the change is observed. The receivers might compute positions incorrectly in the interim, but more likely "dead reckoning", combined with other pulsar observations could be used to determine the erroneous input, and ignore it until the update.

A more serious "flaw" is that the pulsar emissions are not (at first blush) "marked" with an emission time. One pulse looks more or less like the next. If a pulse occurs once-a-second, this translates to 300,000 km between pulse fronts. If your positioning space exceeds this length, you might end up with ambiguity in your resulting position calculation. The other 3 pulsars will provide constraints, making certain "single pulse off-by-one" errors easily discarded. But as your location space grows, it becomes more than possible for multiple location solutions to a given set of pulse-front timings. With Earth's GPS system, each satellite's transmission is coded with both a satellite identifier and timing information, making this type of error impossible.

I know an old Texan
        who imported a fly ...
I don't know why
      he imported a fly ...
Perhaps he'll die.

Does this change any lyrics in the Galaxy Song?

It the limit is 12 regenerations, and a regeneration is used up going from version 1.0 to 2.0, then we don't end with the 12th Doctor! There should be ... must be ... a 13th Doctor!

This seems awfully similar to the story of Richard Bliss's detention in Russia. He was using GPS to determine the locations to erect cellular base stations, and was charged with spying.

There are already laws which outlaw "assault", which is the threat of force. This pretty much would cover most kinds of bullying (ignoring, say, name calling). Cyberbullying would fall under this, and would be fairly easier to prove, since you have documented evidence of what was written -- it isn't heresay. Proving the person behind what was written was someone in particular, and that someone hadn't hijacked their account, would be the hard part. But "assault" is already illegal. You don't need to write a new "cyberbullying" law.

Wrong season. That isn't an easter egg; it's a Hallowe'en prank. An easter egg is something you have to look for in order to find. As for it being harmless fun, I suppose there aren't too many people who are orange/black colour-blind, but you still need to consider the unintended consequences.