True but possibly because they may never make the leap now that all the easy fuel is used up. Wasn't there a story on here a few days ago about how difficult it would be to restart industry after a civilization collapse because there would be no infrastructure that can drill 10000ft underwater, etc? It took a lot more than 5M years under very different surface conditions for all that oil and coal to collect. The fact that we've burned as much fossil fuel as we did makes me think that there hasn't been a prior intelligent species (or at all?).

If it is aliens would they tell us? Or like most stories would there be a coverup?

If they did they can all live at your house.

Check out this story on npr: http://www.npr.org/2015/03/30/...

Basically it would appear religion is in politics for the same reason anything else is, fat cats want more money. Whoda thought?

Must be tough avoiding electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys, busses, trucks, etc who get by on mirrors. Not sure of statistics but I'm guessing things aren't too bad else the NHTSA wouldn't (shouldn't?) be preoccupied with backup cameras and making the roof stronger.

Just had a thought...Assuming agriculture has complete domain over the water on their land only, if residential, etc users end up with a 100% sustainable system from reprocessing, conservation and non farm sources, agriculture users can go fuck themselves when their wells dry up! Sure the price of food will double for a generation while everything gets resorted but hey, that's way easier than addressing the issue ahead of time.

Don't worry, there are plenty of perfectly matching pegs on the market as well...

Ok 1% a year may well be shabby....but the US (and the world) still has an economy so there's that.

Yall can argue TARP wasn't executed in the best way (agreed) and might not have fixed the underlying problem (agreed) but none the less, it happened at a time when everyone agreed we were in a worst case scenario and now we're not. If you add that in, its more like 10000% ROI.

If a hypothesis built on 100's of years of physics and real world observations from the top of the troposphere to the bottom of the ocean by tens (hundreds?) of thousands of logic minded individuals counts as "wild speculation" in your book, I highly encourage you to check the definitions of "wild" and "speculation". Even if it is all a conspiracy/hoax/any other denialist bullshit, AGW certainly does not qualify as wild speculation.

Another fun game would be to hold yourself to a standard of: results less than 100% in any activity = failure. 98% on a math test in 3rd grade? You failed school. That seems to be how you came to your standard of "wrong".

The pickup is in the works...

http://jalopnik.com/tesla-will...

Regarding the motorcycle, would you take a harley?

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/1...

Yeah but how many people have enough innate skill to be a household name 300 years after their death? If you're running a company who's business is to write and maintain millions of lines of code, you're going to have a problem finding 100's or 1000's of people with elite innate skill. Especially since you're competing against 100's of other companies that are doing basically the same thing.

The point is you don't need to be Einstein to be a programmer. Like you said, enough time and practice and you'll probably be at least average no matter who you are. Most programming jobs are like any job, they don't need (or pay for) exceptional so average is usually good enough. My guess is the real issue is letting the average joe into the club.

Well actually, an entire peer reviewed research paper was written on what possible methods contamination from fracking wells can get into drinking water. It includes historical records of chemicals found in the water table dating back to the 60's and also methods of determining which contaminates came from which well. It also notes that 2-Butoxyethanol is found in cosmetics etc. and you can read it here: http://www.marcellus.psu.edu/n...

Its also the first link in the summary.

They won't because they know something like this would happen...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T....

That guy was the poster child for Hanlon's razor. Probably one of the single biggest environmental villains of all time, intentional or not.

Gaahhh, why does everyone always have to mix units?! Its either bajillion atoms/tiny volume or gazillion atoms/minute volume. Standards people, use them.

Circa when? My 8kW array was $19k last summer not including any incentives. I expect them to have a useful life of over 30 years. If your roof gets sun prices don't need to get higher (but I can't imagine they won't), you just need to think a tiny bit further out.