In Finland my 6th grade schoolbook explained it about 17 years ago that Africa will eventually split in Ethiopia. And no Finland is not in Africa its in northern Europe.

Liter is volume of cubic decimeter.
So you are off by 1000.

Typically if you make mistakes in using metric units you are off by 10 or 100 or 1000 and you can know by intuition that you where wrong, provided you have lived with the system and not with something else.

The liter is used for everyday stuff. But normally scientific and large volume stuff uses cubic meters as measure of volume.

For some people 30 grand is day's income or couple of days income, or even less than days income.
Then look what 30 grand gets them...

a) Something other people with similar income will recognize from that he is their peer. Which is good for business.
b) Something that improves their chance of getting laid when trying to, as it both shows money and isn't too much of a showing off.
c) Good watch. People who have truckloads of money will probably try to get highest quality stuff since you don't enjoy that much of having million pairs of cheap socks, and thousand of cheap TV-screens, or thousand cheap watches in their basement. So what they can do with their money? Buy stuff that is far more expensive than what people consider almost as good. But as long as they think its higher quality its probably worth it for them because their time is really expensive for them.

I think b) is the thing what most slashdotters would gladly pay couple of days salary. While a) is probably most common reason to get that expensive watch.

Put a small laptop inside of it, with every software required to run it inside the laptop. AND a bluray disk with all the software required to run and all the data for multiple operating systems in case the laptop fails and people still use bluray...

It seems their webserver isn't written in assembler.

"What pressure does homo sapiens to evolve, given that our technological abilities largely shield us from the pressures of our environment?"

The evolutionary pressures, are for being cool in high school for men, and getting sloppy for women.

Lets put it this way, by that time, technology has advanced a lot. And we probably have colonized rest of the planet system.
You can put a huge mirror slightly closer to sun than lagrange point (to compensate by gravity the idea of having huge solar sail) Then target that somewhere where extra solar radiation would be useful, outside of earth. Perhaps even, targeting small portion if to its shadow on earth, so that the darkness wouldn't come to its shadow in day light, but simply day being less bright. Anyway There are thousands of different ways of doing that thing. Only thing that could prevent us surviving this would be some other catastrophe for instance a nuclear war, that takes all the options of making such things impossible. By the time its a problem IF modern human civilization is still around then we can pretty much block it, and probably with better method than could be imagine from current technology. With modern technology we COULD make a sun screen should we pool earths resources to that project so that it would be finished within 100 years.

Cowlines

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It should be obvious to everyone why these should be there.

Now that america has finally chosen black president, there is black power to put black in the power of every thing. Future of the america really looks black when black man is putting a budget in black and cutting protections against black death and putting black in positions of power to raise other black in position of power. Oh. Future looks so black.

Don't mind the dog,
Beware of the children.

Well they claim its clean in everyway, but it just makes me wonder one thing. If they take solar energy that normally wouldn't reach lower atmosphere and beam it directly to ground level what happens around the area where they beam it. Can it start changing weather, and what kind problems there will be when it reaches the scale in which it will be solution to worlds energy problems. I don't know it they would really have clean solution if applied to ALL energy use.

First problem is reliability. It isn't protected by earths atmosphere and there are situations in which magnetosphere won't protect enough.
Its one of those things, that a single meteor storm of small meteors that cannot reach the earth could literally take out ALL satellites they have, or some strong solar activity could make them offline for a while.
And worst of those is the thing that it gets broken and its beam starts wandering around.
Probably its not SO clean when considering ALL the emissions required for getting a satellite on orbit. Any way I haven't done any calculations on it so all is still speculation, unlike on some other green ideas.

Lots of "green" ideas won't be so green when applied to everyone on planet. For instance some "green" farming technologies double the area required for farming. Now if everyone would do that=double world farming area= bad for environment.
Biodiesel= maybe useful if done from waste. But try solve worlds energy problem by it and world doesn't have enough rain forest to convert to agricultural lands to supply all the demand for energy ;) .

I picked up radically different from earth option.
I'd chooce different gravity in different parts of spaceship, from zero to higher than earth gravity based on purpose of area.

I'm part time IT worker. The company is small non-IT firm. No-ONE except me knows any programming, everyone does something else. There is really little work there, but it MUST be done, and you cannot really swap that guy all the time since it takes lots of time to learn the things required to do the work, so it needs to be in-house job.
How I got it? A friend was before me there and his last task was to find someone for his job, when he switched to full time position elsewhere.