Yes and no. In meantime while "Space advocates have been divided into warring camps, each fighting for their version of a 1 legged stool." http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.c...

One story, mildly amusing, I believe extensively discussed here was someone dressed in a gorilla suit and would greet hikers in the back country of a national park. He would greet himself as Bigfoot, welcome people to the national park and ask they not litter, stay on the trails, and not abuse plants and animals in the park. He had a friend take video with a camcorder which uploaded footage to Youtube became very popular. Park service protested and banned him from playing Bigfoot on grounds that he didn't have a film permit or a permit to stage a show on national park (or something like that, leading to lots of /. diatribes about IP, guvmint interference, etc.).

sorry for OT but I could not pass this one up. You can here NORAD air defense command center, their callword is Bigfoot, on these frequencies, http://home.comcast.net/~kilow...
I actually have heard Bigfoot, NORAD's ATC base giving vectors for what I believe was a KC135, I scan the freq regularly. Not much traffic but occasionally hear something.

An article talked about over the years people make claims they've done some incredible feats mostly unintended. Like someone going too fast on a skateboard off a ledge, board separates from rider, board bounces off a wall, lands on hand railing at same time rider lands on board, which then by chance the angle was just right the rider was able to smoothly land on clear surface and come to a controlled stop. Yeah right, oh wait! A friend got it on the phone and it's gone viral on FB!

OK, so where's the space aliens, Bigfoot, and Nessie?

If you do it for fun, then use whatever you want. If doing it for a job, then it has either been chosen for you by the Project or you select the appropriate language for the task. Of course can have problems if a certain language is better suited but you don't know it and then selected a dud. Probably avoid something that will go out of date soon and nobody will know what it is. For me, ugh I need to learn some of this (been doing html on Notepad since 20th century). My gripe are webpages with tons and tons of script that really don't do much except provide gates for marketeers to blast me with ads and pop-ups. I mean a site that is 2MB of stuff which a 60K html and a few 100K jpgs will do just as good (and download faster). I hate seeing "waiting for aodnqefhgthwe-rhew.googleanalytics.andotherstupidstufftodownload.xml" at bottom of window.

thanks for posting link, I actually RTFA. An interesting mention was,
"What’s more, both Davison and Law say there are a number of other potential places the plastic could be ending up. It could be washing ashore, and a lot of it could be degrading into pieces too small to be detected. Another possibility is that organisms sticking to and growing on the plastic are dragging the junk beneath the ocean’s surface, either suspending it in the water column or sinking it all the way to the sea floor. Microbes may even be eating the stuff."

This should be Post of the Month. All this push for math and yet nothing is taught on relevant business math to all except a few that major in the subject.

damn, another "boost" for Three Felonies A Day.

from the article:
These miscarriages are avoidable. Under the English common law we inherited, a crime requires intent. This protection is disappearing in the U.S. As Mr. Silverglate writes, "Since the New Deal era, Congress has delegated to various administrative agencies the task of writing the regulations," even as "Congress has demonstrated a growing dysfunction in crafting legislation that can in fact be understood." Prosecutors identify defendants to go after instead of finding a law that was broken and figuring out who did it. Expect more such prosecutions as Washington adds regulations.

huh? Germany ends contract with US company like Russia wants to make their own chips instead of buying from US. You mean like uh you know as like um the stuff NSA did is ruining US business in other countries? Golly, that's an astonishing concept.

In ways it is a tragedy. There's a violence ridden ghetto right between two of most wealthiest companies Facebook and Google.

I was thinking same thing. I've never considered one but hey, maybe just like in the comic series (and complete with taglines "2-way wrist TV").

mom doesn't charge rent for the basement?

It's been said Capitalism is where man exploits man. Communism it's the other way around.

Yes, it is further away, intense radiation (except under the ice), more difficult but then Mars used to be like that (in some ways still is). But rather sending another rover to Mars with more evidence of water used to be there, bla-bla, etc. Cynthia Phillips of SETI said, "when looking for life, go where the water is." And there is lots more water there than on Mars but we don't know much of what is under all that ice. Mars has interesting geological features (forget sending people there, it's a bridge too far and we can't even send people to the moon). But just imagine a submarine taking pictures and video of the little fishies in the Europa oceans. Don't know if there is any there but that first mission under the ice will be very interesting.