I had to look over that summary a bit to understand what context this information occurred. Does this sound about right?

1) There was some rain in India that was red color for some reason.
2) Various theories were put forth as to why, including some earth-born algae in the rain.
3) The guy from this article claims that there are some space-borne cells (that don't have DNA) that caused the red rain.
4) This guy also claims that these space-borne cells divide at 121 degrees Celcius
5) This is 'possible' because there are some cells on Earth that apparently divide at 121 degrees Celcius.
6) This also explains some weird lighting patterns in various constellations.

Assuming this is all true, you would think alien cells that are not made from DNA would be something the general scientific community would love to have samples of, for analysis. The whole thing sounds like bunk to me. An obvious question is that if these cells divide at 121 degrees Celcius, what do they do in the extreme cold of space, just hibernate?

Because it runs Linux?...oh wait.

When I do this I get a windows dialog asking me "Choosing to 'Open' 129 items at once may take a long time and cause your computer to respond slowly. Do you want to continue?" My motto is when I get more icons on my desktop than my screen can show, time to get a bigger monitor. Sometimes though I do feel like I should clean up, and I create a folder on my desktop called "old desktop" and put everything in there. I think I have done that about 5 times now, so there is a path on my computer to C:\Documents and Settings\nebaz\Desktop\old desktop\old desktop\old desktop\old desktop\old desktop. I think I have a kitchen at home too, but I can't remember the last time I was in it.

Say goodbye to youtube in its entirety. The risk of liability would be too great, it would turn into another hulu. What would happen to user generated video content?

Cue references to the Andromeda strain and all, but this is too much in line with the story from a typical Doctor Who episode.

Bacteria from a small English fishing village have returned from a space trip to be examined on Earth. Next thing you know, someone will be alone in a room with these samples, it will get dark, ominous music will play, and you will hear a single scream. Next the researcher will appear, appropriately tentacled, infecting everyone else on the base. UNIT will come in to help solve the problem. Everyone in the town will die, and life will continue.

Next there will be a special breed of ant that evolves to place the larval fungus in its stomach pouch.

I did this manually in 6th grade. We had to write a story, so I wrote a story about when I was playing Adventure (the Atari game). Sure it was more of a story than a straight walk-through, but I did get a ribbon for it.

iPad : "Awesome Windows 7 based 'tablets" :: iPod : Zune ?

I would think that a coronal mass ejection hitting the ISS would be much like a tidal wave hitting a twig. It's the atmosphere that diverts the particles, which is what the auroras are. The ISS wouldn't do a whole lot if it were in the path.

One of the things I dislike about having things solved with regulation as opposed to laws is that regulations typically fall under the executive branch, and as such could change on a whim as administrations change. I see from the article that this is part of an list of exemptions (from the DMCA?) that is set by the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress. At a risk of showing my ignorance, is this a Legislative office, or an Executive one? How are its members appointed, how easy is it for them to add/revoke things, etc?

I don't know if it is getting ridiculous as much as the law itself is just confusing and unclear. It requires court arbitration to figure out the simplest of questions. "Is ripping CDs for a backup 'fair use'?", etc. Unfortunately, law is worse than code in terms of legacy support. Think of this as the ultimate code bloat legacy application. All you want to do is gut the whole thing and start over, but management will not entertain that motion at all.

On Earth ... 200 years ago ... I was a prince... with power over millions...

Take that, comet!

Nice way to make even more space junk. Nice going, China. Are you trying to destroy access to LEO over time?

I think it depends on what people are accustomed to. Do silencers really work on guns as silently as shown in the movies? Or do punches really have the big "phwak" sound that you hear there? People are only good at determining "natural" sounds compared to what they are used to. They may not be realistic though.

Setting these mosquitoes up in the wild assumes they will 'take over' the role of existing mosquitoes within the environment. What advantage does being malaria-free have to these mosquitoes? If none, will they survive in the wild? (Or make a big enough dent in the population to matter). Also, what happens when these mosquitoes mate with existing mosquitoes?