I live in Chile and experienced the massive comms breakdown after the earthquake. Best advice is NOT to use telephone at all, you are just making it harder for everyone, including emergency services. Best way to get information is using http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en, email, sms, facebook and other types of asynchronous communication. Be sure to post contact info of people you are searching for on a place they or their friends can see. Rest assured that odds are they are OK, but just incommunicated. Also sending emails to Police/Firefighter stations in Tochigi with info about the people you look for is a good idea. Just once though. My thoughts go with you and your familiy.

I live in Chile and experienced last year 8.8 earthquake. I really understand how people in Japan are feeling, and I can only give them my best wishes and support!

"Or by simple ballistic movement" That means that people can fly unaided, for very short amounts of time?

bummer...

Better way to do it. Just push really hard, and see how much it accelerates.

Well, the same could happen if instead of nude pics, they were her panties, or a very cheesy love letter, or a webcam striptease, or anything you might call private and part of a love relationship. Does that mean that we have tu punish the girl? Nope. Does that mean we (her parents, school, whatever) have to teach her better? Definitely. Criminalizing (Does that word exist?) something doesn't teach you better.

So your job has a 110% of computers?

So you will be hanging around while pulling 650 kg of C4? Why dont just rip the support columns with your bare hands, Hulk? :)

cue 1984 newspeak in 3, 2, 1 ...

I wouldn't be so sure. Why do you think peer review exists? You may disagree with the methods used, with the conclusions obtained, and lots of things that are subjective and part of a scientific study

Oh, you can read Slashdot, sure; but don't you dare to say that only reading makes you a real slashdotter!

I can see what you're doing there!

WHOOOOOOSH

Does anyone know what kind of method they use to "stitch" together the images? What kind of projection they use, so the final imagen does indeed look like the milky way, and not stretched nor distorted?

Yes because we know a driver never speeds past a red light, ever.