The reign of a great empire has come to an end. I think we'll dive into a quasi modern dark ages for the next period. With the collapse of the world economy wars will break out even more one even might consider WW3. The U.S.A. became unimaginable rich and prosperous with cheap borrowed energy (fossil fuel) and later borrowed money. With this they could achieve things which were awesome and great. Alas with great effort too they destroyed the pillars of their own success and the U.S.A has now become a hollow shell of what they've once been. The world has to stabilize again first before we're going to see great and whole hearty efforts in space again. And with powers shifting don't be surprised if some country else will take the lead. At least IMHO.

Thats a nice mist machine! I wanna go dance in front of it! :)

Did he find the circle yet..

They still find tribes in the deep forests of the amazon. Guess it's not a rediculous assumption after all.

Thank god you thought of the kids.. thank you sir for at least having the decency to make her genitals unrecognisable

Do not want you to know there's this much better game in town :p

Looks like lots of energy to me, burning wood that fast how many watts will that take? glass is cheap, dishes are cheap, metal container to boil water is cheap. What's the usability of such energy producing machinery?

Only decendants of the church of scientology can live in planets.. until they get shit out by vulcanos

Light years measures distance not time.. It's slashdot I'm allowed to bitch about this..

Here in europe the roads are cluttered with trucks, to get such lift infrastructure along paths which already deal with tonnes of cargo and therefore maybe kill of half of the trucks would be great. Sure a bad thing for the truckdrivers but the alternative is to eventually broaden the road twice or so making every Major highway 8 lanes. This would however cause a lot more pollution and whatnot. Just imagine a lift system on which you could load the standard sea container.

Where is the "News for nerds stuff that matters"? Where is it. Why did you take it away?! I always read it to myself when I went on slashdot to have a happy reading, now It's gone and slashdot will never be the same again..

Why did I need to read 3 times "Lord Jobs: Where is the porn on my iPad, Captain Cook?!" Before I got it right.. Damn. I hate being male.