Funny how girlfrinds (at leastyours and mine) can't google the problem and find these forum by themselves still ;)

I think naturel imaging is used to rules out interferometry

Usually a nation hosting such a project pays for the infrastructures. And if you look at the costing (if I remember well from my PHD), it represents from 1/3 to 1/2 of the total cost : 40 km tunnel is quite expensive. You are right in the sense that I'm not aware of any declaration of Japan concerning the amount of their participation, but in the end that is still about what they will have to pay

Circular accelerator can use electrons too, in fact there is plenty of accelerator which use different type of particules at the same time (most of the pre-accelerator of the LHC such as the PS and the SPS accelerate electron, positrons, protrons and heavy ions in a seconds timescale)

This how all the big science project I heard about works. If you wait a politician to say "I have a few billion left and I don't know what to do with it, let's make a kick ass science experiment !" you may wait for long long time .... Also politics don't know shit about science, (as they know nothing about technology in general), it would be the best way to get useless (in the sense not scientificly necessary) experiment to be built.

Also as electron/positrons are primordial particles (not composed by other particles), when an collision occurs, the total energy of the electron/positron is used to make new particles. On the other side, hardrons are composed by quarks and gluons, so when a hadron collides, as in reality it is one of the quarks which collides, the energy available for the collision is much lower than the hadron energy (and this energy is an unknown to be measured, which makes the analysis more difficult).

Yes the LEP was the predecessor of the LHC (in fact LHC is in the very same tunnel LEP was), but LEP was at much lower energy (120MeV) than the LHC (6TeV) or what would be the ILC (1TeV). LEP was at the limit of the energy "reasonably" achievable for a circular lepton collider, because energy is lost by synchrotron radiation in circular accelerator. The LHC as a hardron collider is not really affected by this, but to get to the energy of the ILC, an linear accelerator was needed. The main paradigm in high energy accelerator is to build a hadron collider to make discoveries, and then a lepton collider for precise measurement because the much lower background level created by lepton collisions

I believe the first games for any consoles have been developed on emulated machines

Think to it differently: If US, Europe and now India are so convinced (without any proof) of the presence of backdoors in Chinese equipment, it is obviously because they include such backdoors in the equipment they manufacture and see no reason why Chinese would not do the same dam thing. That is the only rational reason I can imagine

They observed ice melt faster than expected in antartica, groendland, glaciers, ... Lets say anywhere, It is just normal consequency that the sea level rise more than expected too.

The mistake the Gnome developers made was calling the new desktop "Gnome 3". Had they presented it as an experimental new environment and named it "Project Harmony" or "Desktop Zen", or something like that, they would have stepped on less toes and met less resistance to the radical changes, and people would have seen it in better light.

It is not just a project called gnome 3, they stopped devolloping gnome 2, made it incompatible with gnome 2 due to dupilcate filenames. Cause of the incompatibility with gnome 2, the biggest distibution made only gnome 3 available (Ubuntu, Fedora,...).

Just to give you an idea on how things can evolve I would like to share what happen in France. I'm French, so I'm not familiar with US rate, but from what I remeber seeing here, it seems "unlimited" data plan with caps at 500 Mb are about 50$/month. It is somewhat comparable with what we had here before a 4th operator named Free enter the phone market.

Free made a plan which was 20€ = 25$ (15€ =20 $ for who used them also as internet provider) with 2Go caps, free unlimited calls and free ulimited SMS/MSM. No subvension was given to get a new phone, but there was no commitment period either.

In one year we saw dramatic price decrease from most opperators but still Free still succeded to get about 6% of the market (source = wikipedia). My point is indead mobile operators overprice badly the plans, and there is hope when a new one enter the market that things evolve positively.

Why would it gives kernel guy fits ? How would it be different to have a swap partition ? Anybody could say me what would be the problem running with no memory and only swap ?

I guess it is a poor traduction from french where dear and expensive are the same world : "cher"

I guess iff the reponse is right 50% of the time u just need to make the calcution several time : u will get 50 % of right reponse and lots af small % of different wrong reponses.