Did anyone else get the same hilarious Google ad with the article?:
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Black holes and concentric circles will get you there...

I agree about the hypothethical part, altough it is more like complete fiction. Now even Slashdot is perpetuating the myth that Far IR cameras can see through walls... Far IR cameras can't even see through normal glass, never mind concrete or brick walls. Far IR radiation is essentially heat, so to see through say a brick wall, you would have to detect the body heat of a person (or another source) through the bricks. The person's (or other source's) body heat would have been dispersed so evenly through the wall that distinguisinh it from the wall itself will be impossible.

The desperate few who may think that this is the option of last resort (terminally ill, insane, etc.) may eventually pave the way for this to become safe and mainstream.

If we see the spots and wrinkles disappear from Kim Jong's forehead, we'll know....

Let's hope that they don't apply the M$' software development process to the reactor design! Que If Microsoft built reactor jokes...

It sounds as if the cells has a high quantum efficiency as well. From the article:

Almost too good to be true, but if it is (and it scales well), invest in some desert land area, because solar has just become viable.

Never mind copper, what about lithium? Lithium is about as abundant as Nickel in the earth's crust: From Lithium's wikipedia entry ->

Not apparently a crisis, although it might be more expensive to mine due to the use of electrolysis.

Mod parent up: *rant* Hollywood has totally violated the laws of physics with fictional law enforcement agencies that can use IR to see through walls. Unless the walls are transparent to IR (and not even glass is transparent to micrometer range IR), there is no way to peer through walls with FLIR.*rant over*

3.5GHz translates to a ~8cm wavelength (maybe a bit less with the speed of light being slower in air). Resolving features that vary in amplitude of say less than 2cm (breathing and swaying) requires VERY accurate phase detection and time measurement equipment. Which translates to some very fast hardware doing phase correlation etc. From the article:

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This is the aerospace industry we're talking about, there is A LOT of red tape surrounding each and every movement, change, purchase, etc.

Now combine this with some wire mesh (to form a Faraday-cage when you've papered the whole room (including the ceiling)) and the tinfoil-hat-crowd will go mad for it!

Take away all the immigrants (especially the highly skilled ones) and the UK economy will collapse. The technological centers of innovation in UK, e.g. Cambridge, will shrink or simply disappear without an influx of foreign workers. London will grind to a halt if you remove the foreign workers (they keep the place together, clean and in functioning order). Note that ex-Imperial colony immigrants have to jump through exactly the same hoops as other people to obtain the right to stay in the UK.
Imperialism might have ended 50 years ago, but the effect of imperialism will be felt for a long time to come, especially in Africa. All the artificial borders that the imperialist rule imposed on regions (notice all the straight artificial borders on the map in Africa), have to be corrected. Usually this comes in the form of civil war, Sudan being an excellent example of this. I refer you to Parag Khanna's TED talk. I'm not saying the UK should throw open its borders for ex-imperialist colony immigrants, but do realize that the effect of imperialism is still felt in regions of the world today.

To point out the obvious: your assuming that things must move quickly (or move on our timescales) to be useful...

220 decibels of sound can travel very far (especially underwater), I bet the submarine can be quite far away and will still be able to pick up the sound signal. IF (and this 'if' is a very handwavey kind of if) the range of this is say more than a few tens of kilometers, it would be hard to find the submarine anyway in a volume that large.

Someone asking marriage advice on Slashdot (of all places) -> who else can we ask something important? Mmm, probably asking George Bush about achieving world peace!