I wasn't aware that the problem of how flighted animals evolved existed. But now I learned, from the ground up or from the tree down. The video was pretty cool and makes things really clear in explaining the advantage of simply flapping wings even without the ability to take off.

I've said it time and time again, what appears in the anime series will happen some day, which is what the author touches on. We'll have partially to fully enhanced humans, and then a whole slew of fully robotic devices including gynoids. I assume it'll be mostly for the better, but just as the series touches on that the same helpful things could be used in nefarious ways.

If you haven't check out GITS before, do so now it's grrrrrrrrreat!

I can finally make those pieces I've always needed to finish my lego builds!

Hey pal, he's not your buddy!

I and many others i'm sure, disagree... lesser earthquakes feel like a flat tire, that's why many might THINK "you don't feel anything less than a 7.5." It also depends on the type of quake.

Oh, its somewhat funny. I'm in So Cal and I went to my first meeting/trip to a sheriff's station... All I remember is the person in charge getting into it with my mom because we showed up a few minutes late and were asked to leave. So my mom was like WTF and argued. So I was "allowed" to finish that outing, but wasn't allowed to return lol. I don't really have anything against the organizations, I've met a lot of people have been in them and they're all cool, not like the ones who gave me the boot :P

what about the london projection? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2D5pfYfIs8

I got kicked out of the cub scouts on my first visit/meeting! So since then on, I look down upon your fine organization! (Except eagle scouts, they're pretty bad ass)

Actually, in certain industrial operations they reverse the "hover board" to make it lift heavy materials effortlessly. They magnetize portions of the ground to lift pallet-like areas. It's really interesting. Before I knew about that, I first thought about it in school when using a magnetic vice for a grinder: if you can clamp a piece of metal to a powered magnetic surface, why not reverse the polarity and lift it instead? Pretty sweet! Now we just need a skate park using that!

The "extended star wars universe" has had its hits and misses, but for the most part is pretty good. The question is, how would she go about it? Would it be like the SWU where Lucas controls certain parts of the timeline, or would writers be able to just go at it? It has HUGE potential - both before and after HP's timeline, but will it pan out? I think the key lies with her in what she would allow to be done and what she would be involved in herself.

While I do agree with you in that the privacy of a person should not be negotiable, people do it all the time! They're known as stars, primarily out of Hollywood, CA. Once a person makes it big on TV, film or in music, they have effectively 0% privacy. They know this going in - and some actually enjoy that and get famous because if their publicity. So, maybe for those accepting the ToS, it might be worthwhile to them. But for me? Not at all.