The iPad and Galaxy Tab 10.1, in fact, are not competitors. iPad is targeting the "no clue" part of users, and the Galaxy is targeting the geeky type of users. And i think the reviewer falls, hard, in the first category.

Yup. Sometime ago everybody was sure that the earth was flat, and that the sun circled the earth, and that the atom is the smallest basic brick, and the peptic ulcer main cause is stress, and.... must i continue?

The problem, the stupid problem is: why grant patents on software, on code? Code should be restricted to copyright. It is, practically, the same like music. USA should pass a bill to eliminate and nullify all software patents.

Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain?

You will never be able to top the humankind to explore. You could delay it, but never stop it. So probably we will be in space, even if on Earth the famine, and pollution, and war, and... will be present.This is the human nature. So why not try to allocate some resources and set some ambitious goals? Like going to Moon and Mars? Like colonizing Moon and/or Mars? Like mining the asteroid belt? On this day there are a lot of private companies and venture capitalist interested in space. NASA has the knowhow, they have the money. Lets do it!

I have noticed that the writers of sci-fi, fantasy and the same have more or less some scientific or engineering background. This exclude them for the "mainstream" literature. There lives the opinion that only the classic education makes you a "real" writer. I am very curious how many "real" writers could mend their own computers? One more thing. Just ask how many from the Apollo crew got in to engineering because Asimov or C. Clarke. The face of today was molded by the sci-fi writers of the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Yes, on the public side. But not in the industry.

I believe there are a LOT of hidden costs, and a lot of cost because of mistakes. I think this scenario has happened a lot of times: A US company receive a order for spare parts. A big one, for some equipment produced somewhere in Europe, but the US company has a good price and solid know-how. The parts are produced, packed and shipped, lets say in Africa. At destination the engineers are unable to use them because the original equipment is metric, and the parts are imperial (think only of nuts and bolts). The US company scrambles and in under 2 weeks fixes the problem, but has to pay for 2 weeks delay and shipment, and is keeping the parts nobody can use. Sounds familiar?

This will open the gate to the best smoke generator in the other navies. And the mirrors, like Opportunist (166417).... Much more cheap... It's like the urban myth about the NASA pen and the soviet pencil.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria? The beauty of science is that not one single model or theory is absolute. Science is evolving! In my opinion one can be a religious scientist. It is a little schizoid but it is possible to be a very good scientist. Please goggle Guy J. Consolmagno. "Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it's turning God into a nature god."

Hmmm. Do not remember now, but i believe that some court decided that creationism is nor science, is a form of religion. Science is something you can proof, experiment, validate, test, repeat, modify.... Religion is dogma. The two are things totally separate. In the science field one can not operate only with beliefs. The models used in science can be inaccurate, or wrong, or stupid and you abandon them when they tested wrong and you construct another model better suited with reality. Religion is a conscience matter. And i believe that one of the fundamental liberties is the liberty of conscience. If somebody tries to force on me some religious beliefs, i get nervous... :| And which creationism theory is the "real" one, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist (incomplete list...)?

And the electricity is produced how? Especially in US? Burning what? Oil, gas, coal? Or is only wind and solar. Don't remember. Please en-light me...

Yup. And everybody forgets the impact on electric distribution networks, if in 2 to 4 years no more than 25% of cars becomes EV. The Mother of all Blackouts... :D LOL