It's worth noting that most people with ALS die after a few years because they choose not to continue with permanent life support gear, and kick the bucket when their lungs stop working by themselves. If mechanical breathing assistance is provided, the patient will continue living indefinitely (until a complication or unrelated illness gets them).

[my mother has had ALS for around 18 years now]

No one's played an original Game Boy? (or even the Game Boy Advance...) It used to be that for most LCD screens, you ~needed~ to be in direct sunlight to see anything at all. There was a mirror where we expect the backlight to be today. It worked pretty well, really.

cool story bro.

Matthew 10:34 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

matt 11:21 even suggests that a worse fate awaits noncompliant cities than that which befell sodom and gomorrah.

nice try though

I'm far from an engineer, but I can still say quite confidently that you're incredibly wrong. rather than bother with any kind of math myself, I'll just direct you to youtube-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCFrnL3W5A Both of these tests used the same model of bomb as was dropped on Nagasaki, around 21kt (the bomb used on Hiroshima was only 12kt; no idea where 54kt came from). we won't be destroying Texas any time soon.

just so you know, the SC2 beta works flawlessly in wine after a few minutes of setup. feel free to fully abandon windows whenever. ^_^