Whales shape their environment, just as their environment has shaped them. That's how evolution works. Evolution is nothing but the establishment of equilibria between niches and the creatures occupying those niches. When either the niche or the creature (or the number of creatures) changes, of course the other will follow suit.

The new information in this article is that scientists have discovered a way in which whales influence their environment. Engineering has nothing to do with it.

What's worse is your wilful misconstrual of an important privacy rights issue either out of malice or ignorance.

When you hold money above all else, this is what results.

On a less depressing note, I heard about this cool game involving glass beads being developed somewhere in Germany.

and I like my thoughts. I just feel that I should point that out, to stop the tide of generalization.

Torah joke.

Oh those poor media outlet editors, panicking about missing the next big story. Surely their fragile egos should not be sacrificed to such banalities as truth and common sense?

Instead, we should allow them to play games of telephone with facts, because that way no one's feelings (advertising revenue) get hurt.

...read the headline, not the summary?

Or perhaps you have an idiosyncratic understanding of the word "concrete".

Exactly. The numbers in the summary are irrelevant with regards to the impact of the lifting of the ban.

I think you mean to say his quotes read like something from the onion. That is, his quotes are like something from the onion. In other words, his quotes are similar to what you would find on the onion. The onion. Onion.

I think this is how you spot people who don't read.

"If you are exposing people to something that causes changes in psychological status, that's experimentation,"

No it isn't, otherwise the above sentence would be experimentation, as it changed my psychological state from calm to annoyed. Is it too much to ask that supposed experts use their own jargon correctly?

I do not eat with scalpel and fork.

For space to be able to travel there needs to be some frame of reference against which it can be judged to have travelled. As the frame of reference for travel is space itself, if space could travel we wouldn't be able to tell.

You're simply wrong. You have no idea what I know.

I'm not doing anything of the sort. I'm clarifying that the title is incoherent. If time could move, growing older would make no sense; you would age because time would move past you, rather than you move through time. And because everyone has a different age, it would mean that time moves differently past everyone. Everyone (and every thing) would have their own personal time bubble, rather than time being just a dimension of a shared world.