I would think that one side of the star would be blueshifted, the other side redshifted ever so slightly.
I also wonder if the planet suffers more collisions than it would otherwise.

My memory has just been sold.

It strikes me that we increasingly look to cloning a certain animal for a particular purpose. If were were to extrapolate that into the future, what is to prevent us from cloning a particular person, in this case retired Gen. Rick Hillier, because they show a desired aptitude, and would that be beneficial for society at large.
That, and I couldn't think of a comment good enough to be modded insightful. :-

"CBC reports that six soldiers cloned from Canadian-born Rick Hillier in late 2007 have reported for duty to check for terrorists in Afganistan after completing a 16-month training course. The Canadian Armed Forces says clones help to lower fighting costs as it is difficult to find good soldiers. Only about 30% of naturally-born soldiers make the grade, but Canadian scientists say that could rise to 90% using the cloning method. The soldier, each called 'Ricky', are part of a set of seven who were cloned from a 'superb' former chief of defense staff, General Rick Hillier, CMM, MSC, CD, at a cost of about $239,000. 'They are the world's first cloned soldiers deployed at work,' says current chief of defense General Walter Natynczyk. 'They showed better performances in detecting terrorists during the training than other naturally-born soldiers that we have.'"

You might not at first, but you will when a disembodied voice says "NUCLEAR LAUNCH DETECTED"

Also, he makes a comparison based on the processor frequency. I didn't run the numbers, but I'll bet those are off by a fair bit as well.

I thought it was funny.
12. Defects In Three Out Of Five Lines Of Code: A universal tool in the open-source community, called Lint, was used to analyze the source code written in C. This program uncovers a range of problems from minor to serious problems that can halt or cripple the program operation. This Lint program has been used for many years. It uncovered that there are 3 error lines for every 5 lines of source code in C.

While Draeger's counsel claims that the "The Alcotest [7110] is the single best microprocessor-driven evidential breath tester on the market", Draeger has already replaced the antiquated 7110 with a newer Windows® based version, the 9510.

IBM has a tool platform that is useful for developing C/C++ projects on.

I can see myself paying for a subscription. I would not pay per video, even as a miropayment. I'm not spending my money on being rickrolled.

What I would pay for however, are shows that are currently on cable. If I had the choice to only download the shows I wanted, ad free, for 20 bucks a month, I would jump at it. To be able to catch up on entire seasons without downloading the torrent and risking all the nasty stuff that comes with it would be awesome.
On the data mining side, Google could find out who is watching what. This would give them an enormous amount of data for their AdSense program. I wouldn't care. I get my tv whenever and where ever I want.

One down, 99 more to go!

Anyone remember SIM0NE?

For the n00bs, the above post is in ROT13. Here is a link for a converter.

Does it not strike anyone as ironic that we should be more afraid of the anti terror legislation advocates than the terrorists? Reminds me of a saying, something along the lines of If you set out to destroy all evil...

I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that solar winds brought this stuff mostly for free. I suppose the scoop needed to collect it would be huge though. Still, the amount that can be taken into orbit can be significant. I mean if we can get something like Hubble up there, a tank of H2 shouldnt be that hard.

I dont see why we cant send up hydrogen. Light, will have more of an impact than radiation and is cheap, and hard to screw up, since if it explodes, no radiation, and is the most abundant element in space anyway. Scratch that, why send it up when we can get it from space in the first place?