Bees and angiosperms are coeval. Just in case you wanted to know. ~100 million years old.

We see cosmic microwave background radiation from ~400,000 years after the Big Bang, according to Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_background_radiation
So we can theoretically see out to BB+~400k years

Since every direction we look we see the same type of cosmology at the edge of visible space, 1)we are no closer than 13~bly from the edge of the universe, and 2)What is seen here has already followed the same pattern of galaxy life cycle that can be observed from looking from farthest away to closest in.

So, It still exists as a distinct galaxy or it has merged with another galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_formation_and_evolution

PS NO, it's not still in the location we observe it today, it has moved quite a bit since it emitted that 13.1billion year old light.

Finally a place I can ask my question.

Say you invented a self replicating sentient Legoman. (Or a pair) Now say you give them resources and a job. Now say one of your biological children gets jealous and convinces these Legos to rebel against you and your job. What would you do?

Do you get the analogy? Here's the rub. Your son also reminds you of the promise you made to all onlookers that these specific Legos were constructed and programmed perfectly for their job and would benefit by doing that work. And you promised that these two Legos as built would eventually produce a class of Lego that would fulfill the work.

What would you do. I'm curious.

What's interesting to me is (1) This type of virus doesn't normally put its code into host dna. and (2)The Hep(b) fossil in the songbirds genome and the Hep(b) virus infecting humans now are almost identical... Things to ponder.

As to 'viruses' in host dna, it's called "fossil virus", kind of like an animal fossilized in limestone etc. Not an animal, but we can learn from them.

Sorry, I reread my first post and realized that it really didn't say what I was thinking. I deserved that flame mod. If it is just a movie within a textbook, then it will be better than a pic, but not by much.

See above

And yes, proprietary is limiting.

Really, students will make what they want to of school, right?

I longed to learn more about teh science and maths and didn't like that my teachers (by 10th grade) didn't know what they were teaching. (Not really their fault, one was a biology major just beginning to teach physics)

You had interactive video in your school? How did that work. What sort of inputs were you able to make? That is awesome!!!

I was thinking more to use multitouch as a way to let student have a degree of input. If it was responsive (quick) and was robust enough for more than just a few pre-programmed 'movies' then it might help students who wanted to explore knowledge. Imagine three fingers used to describe the vertices of a triangle. And then moving one point and watching the angles and sin cos and tan change. (That is what I was thinking)

Or dragging an H2O molecule into a Fe surface and watch the reaction.

I can dream right? The pessimist in me says it will probably be a way for a lazy/distracted/addicted to Internet teacher to not have to work. And the laggards will play and the driven students will program games or such.

Whether it be ipad or an Android tablet, I would love to see a interactive tablet for students that shows g or f=ma or the basis of trig in animated form. i.e. an animated triangle that shows what sin cos and tan really are... Oh, and chemical reactions. Those could be awesome for someone interested.

Also a way to read to young children where they see the word as they hear it. Although parent(s) reading to their kids would be better in my mind...

Hopefully this doesn't turn into a distracting of students or virtual experiments that don't react like in real life.

John Gault's pseudonym?

Every belief system that I know of except the actual bible teaches every human has some immortal/ethereal spirit or soul. I suggest that the next time some 'christian' asks you the worm food question, reply by asking what happened to Adam when he died? The answer is in Genesis 3:19:

For added fun, ask them what the original lie was(according to the bible it's this:Genesis 3:4,5: You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."). If they know, then ask them, Is it really a lie since Adam and Eve are immortal souls still alive. (as a side point, almost all 'Christians' I have asked say Adam is in Heaven or will be soon.)

While I can't speak for Catholicism, or for that matter, the vast majority of 'Christians,' I can tell you that their guidebook says that humans and animals and anything with blood are souls. The things that swim in the oceans and 'breathe' through gills or lungs are souls. Oh, and souls die. Even human souls die. The Greek idea of an immortal ethereal soul is not in the Bible. And neither is eternal torment in Hellfire. As to when an embryo/fetus becomes a soul, see here