Why aren't those low prices passed on to consumers? The wholesale cost of electricity has dropped 50%, but our rates have not....

Sorry folks, we peed away all your cash and government incentives and it is too expensive to actually produce anything ....so please invest more so that we can do more R&D

and they really want people they can pay less

They would prefer a liberal arts major that they could pay a lot less!

And enjoyed laughing at us geeks.... but hey there a couple of jobs that just opened up for reporters in Iraq....

If you have any illusions about any honesty left in the aerospace industry...

Boeing has a larger, bribe infrastructure that can better able deliver the cash in a timely manner.

Thousands of tons of ice on such a tower would take it down pretty quickly. If nature cannot send up granite spires that high, man's inventions will not get that high either, or at least for very long.

Nobody wants to talk about the real reason krill is vanishing and krill-eating penguins and other animals are starving...it is because of commercial fishing for krill. The whole ecosystem is being destroyed and everyone wants to blame climate or ice when it is just plain old greed. It should be illegal to harvest krill.

Like the climate instability stuff I heard a few years ago with Super Storm Sandy? Remember who the storms were supposed to get worse each year? The last two hurricance seasons have been a dud at least in east.

Look how successful it was with Christie

The mission was designed to map methane on Mars, but MSL has found none so the results could be disappointing, but just getting to Mars orbit will be a big achievement. There are no sacred cows on Mars and no methane, alas.

You underestimate how stubborn Bill Belichick is. I suspect he will have someone printout the pictures and give them to him on a clipboard...

I saw him struggling with it...I suspect he will go back to a clipboard and paper soon and to heck with the NFL and the MS contract...

There is no purpose to manned spaceflight. The scientific return comes from unmanned spaceflight. Manned spaceflights are stunts to keep the pork flowing to Congressionally powerful districts. There is nothing done by manned spaceflight that could not be done unmanned for one tenth or one hundredth the cost as an unmanned mission. The problem is that NASA is run by ex-flyboys and astronauts. There is an internal battle between the manned spaceflight directorate and the science directorate (NASA/JPL). The former do maned pork and are always trying to steal funds away from the science guys. The manned fighter-jocks tried to kill planetary science many times, the last time was earlier this year. At one point they allocated more for a Space Toilet (30 mil) than they did for a Europa mission (15 mi). NASA needs a shakeup and the science guys need equal control at the top.