The user could customize the display of his/her Apple Watch with of the real-time status of one of the indicators in the dashboard, with the time display as minutes to midnight in any desired time zone and time display format. It would be a doomsayer's dream.

Because of the loud noise they made as they chiseled messages, the Romans failed to hear the ninjas piling off the boats from Japan

Notice how the largest renewable source, hydro, counts as green energy when it suits the enviros, but is anathema the rest of the time.

The Detroit colony, which dates to long before the radical era, has spoken up, but the problem is worldwide. The Saudi king may claim to be our ally against radicals, but his royal family is riddled with princes whose money enables terror to go international. If the King were sincere, he would repudiate the Wahhabism that started Islam on its radical turn just as the rest of the world was industrializing and reach back to, say, the Abbasid tradition to define a non-radical version of the faith.

Even at that time, we still had hope that a silent Muslim majority would arise, and proclaim "That's not us!" After Charlie Hebdo and that fiery cage, not so much.

That's because the Amish are not apocalyptics. The anti-science left, on the other hand, welcomes the disappearance of mankind and is not about to play any part in perpetuating it.

Glyphosate is also a common consumer product. If there is any real cancer risk from it, in our hypersensitized culture we would be the first to know.

They're accusing General Tso of being chicken.

And General DeBillity. He's just...sick!

The article you linked refers to military gear we gave Yemen to hold off jihadists and which has now is presumably in ISIS hands. It is well established that the same thing happened to the arms we gave the new Iraqi Army, the one which fled at the first sign of fire.

Why exactly would we want to keep the Russians out? My impression of the best outcome in the Middle East is for the Russians or the Chinese to take over the region and grind it under a generation or two of the sort of iron-fisted colonial rule that Europe or the US would not contemplate. Let them have its oil in return - we are well on the way to producing our own needs, and this would spur the eventual replacement of oil by nonfossil energy sources.

Great idea! But if anybody actually acts on the ISIS information with domestic attacks on personnel, their religion is finished in this country for all time to come. I'm the first to agree that wouldn't be fair, but in this time of war that is what will happen.

The finding of dirty snow is literally worth more than gold to space colonists. Gold would have market value if brought back, net of whatever large expense that would take, while water for "local" use is one more vital consumable that will not have to be hauled up through Earth's gravity well.

Greenpeace espouses the standard climate scenario of today's radicals, which is that all bad weather is the fault of human-emitted carbon. So if this is the case, we need to eliminate emitted carbon right away. When can we kick open the doors to Yucca Mountain and start building the new reactor fleet?

Of what shirts the guys in the control room were wearing.

What I'm really hoping for is that some woman in the control room can give the media a detailed technical explanation of what is going on with Rosetta while wearing an I WISH THESE WERE BRAINS T-shirt.

Changing California water law to end the water priority for farmers would be a powerful motivator to desalinate water for agriculture. City people are probably going to reject "frankenwater" anyway, this being California, but the flat-earth lobby wouldn't be able to stop huge desal plants being built in the San Joaquin. Agricultural usage would more easily lend itself to experimentation with new technologies that will offer lower costs over RO.