Mr. Shatner, you look the same as you did when you were 40, have you discovered the fountain of youth and if so, can you send a gallon of it's lifewater to me?

I think all this hydrogen tech is very dangerous, we will start burning hydrogen and more of it will leak and escape from the earth since it is so light and before too long we will run out of water. Oh we will have plenty of oxygen, but the oceans will dry up and all life will die except the giant sandworms... At least we will have spice.

A long time ago they developed software for tracking people, it was 80 years ago and that didn't work out all to well for the people being tracked.

Naw, we need a S100 version.

"No, no," said Frankie, "it's the brain we want to buy."

"What!"

"Well, who would miss it?" inquired Benjy.

"I thought you said you could just read his brain electronically," protested Ford.

"Oh yes," said Frankie, "but we'd have to get it out first. It's got to be prepared."

"Treated," said Benjy.

"Diced."

"Thank you," shouted Arthur, tipping up his chair and backing away from the table in horror.

"It could always be replaced," said Benjy reasonably, "if you think it's important.

"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice."

"A simple one!" wailed Arthur.

"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? Who'd know the difference?"

"What?" cried Arthur, backing away still farther.

"See what I mean?" said Zaphod, and howled with pain because of something that Trillian did at that moment.

"I'd notice the difference," said Arthur.

"No, you wouldn't," said Frankie mouse, "you'd be programmed not to."

The Oak Ridge Boys (not the band) invented a power source of the future for the whole world inthe late 60's / early 70's but the DOE had a vested interest in making bombs instead and since this new tech would eat bomb parts as fuel they were dismissed and ignored because they were so "heavily vested in current tech" which was ironically invented by the same guy who came up with the new tech.....

Such is the ways of foolish government agencies and the companies that lobby them.

This will break even passwords that only allow one try as you send a msg back in time that AAAAAAAAA didn't work , try somethign else. You will always get the correct answer back.

Just like how I cannot run a copy of windows on my windows computer....

Oh wait...

VirtualBox

Maybe we can run quantum computers but they will run very crappily and have the potential to crash the universe.....

[ Now, to understand it better, read All You Zombies by Robert Heinlein (pdf of complete story). Considered by many to be the greatest time travel short story ever. ]

And the best "self" slash fan fiction ever penned, Heinlein puts all those on fanfiction.net to shame.

Pot for the dumb sheep voters and brain enhancing chips for the ruling elite.

The dumb sheep will votes the elite into power and will be dumb but happy with their pot, while the elite will be smarter and unhappy.

Maybe the smart people will get "soma" to keep them happy too....

The more rich people who use it the more the price will go down as the market demands it.

Look at HDTVs, I was using a tube TV and only rich people had them 10 years ago, but now even the "poor" have HDTVs.

Same with computers, poor people used to not beable to afford a new PC, now they are so cheap and laptops are so ubliquitous that the 5,000 laptop from 1990 is now 350 dollars and 100 times as powerful. And you count inflation in there and the 350 dollar laptop adjusts to around 150 dollars.

Need I even get started on smartphones. Enabling tech will always end up cheaper after it gets mass produced.

Would you be saying the same thing about LASIK eye surgery 15 yars ago? Which used to be ultra expensive, but now you can get it done in for less than 500 per eye in a strip mall?

Point is the rich will always have the new toys and it will give them an advantage, but it won'y take long for the people who sell to the rich to start marketing to the masses, because the middle/lower class is far larger and in the end more profitable.

There have been some historical studies of CO2 levels over the last 65 million years, in the last 50 million years the CO2 level has been slowly trending downward....

At the rate it was going it was going in another 100 million years the CO2 would have been so low that plants would start having a very hard time growing.

CO2 is not the issue it is the sulfur dioxides and nitrogen oxides that are killing the plants, and plants eat CO2. In the united states the problem has pretty much been solved in terms of how bad it was in the 60's - 80's.

However in china they don't give a rats arse about the sulfides and nitrogen gasses that they spewing and there is a bad acid rain problem and REAL plant and animal KILLING pollution. Of course dead plants and animals decompose and release CO2 as bateria break them down so that makes it even worse, plus with fewer plants there are fewer carbon sinks.

CO2 is not as big a boogey man when it comes in terms of life. We get more heating from roads and rooftops in metro areas than CO2. If the CO2 was an issue the snow in the suburbs would melt as fast inthe winter as the snow 10 miles out inthe country. We are panicing over microclimates.

[ but but buttttt.... Every lightning path-to-ground has an exact 1.21GW discharge, every time, no exceptions! Fact is fact, dude. /snark ]

No, just a 1.21 GW relay so you don't burn it out.

I want a screen saver that has digital Ronal Reagan Yelling at a Screaming Ayatolya Khomeni!