Because of protectionism cheap solar panels have been taxed until they become so much more expensive by the time they got to the consumers

A calculation I read somewhere - sorry, I lost the link - that if there was none of those stupid taxes the solar panels could have been gotten for almost _half_ of the current prices

Can you imagine the impact of consumers getting _twice_ as many solar panels installed on their roofs?

Can you imagine how much more clean power that gonna generate ... and how many more gigatons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses that didn't have to be spewed into the atmosphere because of the clean power generated by those extra solar panels?

If we truly want to save the planet earth, we must insist that all the stupid protectionism practices be stopped !!

TFA mentioned several possible scenario - spin-polarized electrons, circularly polarized light that is produced by the scattering of light in the atmosphere and in neutron stars, and so on - which should have been taking place in similar fashion all throughout the universe

Would this mean that if there are lifeforms elsewhere in the universe, would their physiology (whether or not they have DNA) be similarly affected by the polarized action of electron and/or photon around them?

Does the above formula apply to the "bio-fuels" ?

If it does, then the whole "ethanol-fuel" and the "bio-diesel" thing are nothing but filthy lies ??

... I wonder what NASA can do with a budget of $74 million ...
 
... hmm .....

At least tap water --- if properly supplied --- has gone through the chlorination process

And according to WHO, chlorination kills the ebola virus

But in Africa, and in many other third world countries, especially the rural area,they take the water from the well and streams, and use it

Of course many of them do boil water before they drink it. But my point being, the water that they take from the streams / well might have been contaminated by the ebola virus, and that might become a vector for spreading the disease

I have nothing but admiration to ISRO for what they have achieved

My only problem is what you wrote:

I do have business dealing with India, and I do regularly meet my business acquaintances in India, and I know, for a fact --- that so-called brain drain has actually benefited India

How, you might ask?

Those who emigrated abroad and working in America / Europe do accumulate knowledge / experience in whatever they do there, and, --- this is very important --- when they go back home, for visit (many of them still have families back home), most of them do pay courtesy calls to their own friends working inside India, and when that happened, technology transfers happen, and that event happens very very frequently in India

Many of the "tricks of the trade" that have been picked up by the Indian industry (including ISRO) came from the courtesy call from their friends / former classmate who work abroad

Of course, what I have described above isn't limited only to India, the same thing happens in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and even in Russia and China as well

The "brain drain" in a way, do offer a "reverse channel" that enables knowledge to flow back to home countries

It is said that the bodies of the ebola victims are filled with ebola virus, and the bodies were buried. Isn't this akin to merely "hide" the problem, and not eliminate it?

By burying the dead bodies which are filled with the ebola virus, they are allowing the virus to flow out of the decaying bodies which were buried in the burial grounds and thus contaminate the underground waters

As there aren't a lot of tap water infrastructure available in that part of the world, many people still rely on water they obtain from rivers and from wells - and when the virus contaminate the underground water more people are going to be infected with that virus

Why can't they burn the dead bodies instead?

I have stopped using Gnome ever since the developers decided to stop listening to the users and fucked up the whole thing

Whoever believe proclamation from politicians deserved to be betrayed

Just because Obama's campaign slogan was "A Nuclear-Free World" doesn't mean he can't lie --- and the "change" he promised us turned out to be the "spared change" we have left in our pockets

The re-arming of America's nuclear arsenal has everything to do with pork barrel --- as most of the sites related to the re-arming programs are located in the Democrat controlled districts, it is nothing more than typical practice of cronyism - political cronyism

We used to trust the USA

At least, ***I*** used to