I was suprised to find out Joe is a professor of writing at MIT. But he wrote manyof novels before joining MIT.

By operators of factory/medical robots and drones. You start to feel you are actually there. It will get so much better with the new Oculus

I was expecting public subortial launches in 2011. Almost as slow as NASA which is likely to slip seven years behind in a shuttle replacement.

I notice people under 35 dont join much of anything whether its hiking groups, sports teams or professional societies. That generation isnt into groups.
The majority of programmers are under 35.

Not something relatives or acquaintances brag about I suppose.

What are the odds of this happening if I know 400 people and zero out of 35%? Must be at least 6-sigma!

I was perusing the back-to-school sales in the Sunday papers and saw some new Android tablets listed for $59. I think they were the early 7" models 8GB and Android 4.2. I see such models even cheaper online.

I wonder if any are commercially viable.

The investors who gamble huge sums on huge risks are ones thrilled by drugs. They are attracted to SVs risk culture.

A few radical republicans fantasize about impeachment. But when they realize who'd replace Barak, they'll come to their senses.

1) Very similar to previous USGS hazard maps.
2) Nearly every high risk zone has an associated large historic earthquake and continuing microseismicity. Seattle's 1700 M9 is just outside of historic memory. Eastern Tennesse has not had a quake.

3) Few seismic building laws in Eastern US, despite sizeable risk.

No historic large quake there, but lots of microseismicity.
Western Tennesee is in the New Madrid tectonic zone with a large 1811 quake. But that is a dfferent tectonic zone.

M7 off Cape Ann in 1755 caused damage to young Boston.
Several alrge faults in NYC area.
The Saint Lawrence Seaway is a large fault and has quakes periodically.

1) near Rifle due to injecting irrigation waste water (too salty for river)
2) near Trinadad, mine waters
3) near Greeley, oil drilling waste.

Right now they are frantically searching for a second Kuiper Belt target within the range of the nuclear generator lifetime (+5 years?). But they have not found one yet. They would hope to set the course shortly after leaving Pluto.

Some of the the mind blowing chapters consider an infinite universe in space and time. Our local area could exactly repeat on the average of 10^150 light years, Brian calculates. And there could many more variants than exact repeats.

Imagine an infinite number of exct copies of yourself, each sparated by immense distances. Image even more variants of yourslef, living slightly to greatly different lives.