In a rigged election, it will be that small difference. Close elections are the ones that get rigged.

True - it varies from state to state. In general it's either recanvass (re-run the machine count) or recount (count by hand)

Georgia:
O.C.G.A. 21-2-493
O.C.G.A. 21-2-495

IANAL!
Here's what it looks like to me if there's a problem or close (1%) election
If it's paper ballots, then recounts are done with representatives of affected candidates present. The ballots are read aloud in front of the candidates (and other poll officials) representatives and counted.

In Georgia, if machines are used, you get a re-canvass. Georgia's machines do not have a paper audit of each vote, only paper total generated by the machine, so the law basically says if something went wrong, assume it was the machine and try to figure out what happened. If you can't figure it out, then that's too bad and we'll just go with what you got. If you do find the problem, then that's too bad and change the numbers to match the paper total.

See the difference? See the problem with machine-based voting?

The CDC and Fort Dietrick has had the ebola virus in its lab for many years.

As with many other forms of voting where there's no physical ballot, the biggest problem is that there is no actual recount if there's been any problem.
You'll just get the same exact result with each recount.

Many years ago we had huge mechanical voting machines. It wasn't commonly known, but poll workers knew that those machines could lock up and lose all their totals with no way of recovering the lost votes. Rumor had it that this was more likely to occur in black neighborhoods.

BTW, the only elections that matter are local.

I also found these written by Dr Malina in 1967 regarding search for during and after WWII

http://www.olats.org/pionniers...
http://www.olats.org/pionniers...
http://www.olats.org/pionniers...

I think this is the intended artice:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aeros...

I tend to ignore the text in any Huff post articles and go to any source if mentioned. The same applies to /. as well.
For this one, here you go:
http://www.pnas.org/content/ea...

It's not an experiment, it's several. and the loose ethics of the wealthy have been noted throughout history.
We don't have to accuse people of lying about their social status because hardly anyone knows what they are except at the extremes.
So, generally the participants weren't directly asked their social status, it was inferred from a tool used in other social studies designed to discover social status without directly asking for it.

Also, two of the studies didn't involve game mechanics - they involved actual theft.

One study was observing behavior in traffic and status (real or imagined) was inferred from the class of automobile.

On the other hand, continuing your theme of poor methodology some studies were done on amazon's mechanical turk using people answering adds on craigslist, an environment not known to me for attracting the wealthy. It's not only a self- selected group, but a particular subset of a self selected group.

And I'm hoping to be half-dead by then. 160 to 180 sounds about right for me.

I don't know what your idea of a long time ago is, but they are still building and improving the C-130.
The Combat King variant was flight-tested in 2011.

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

On the other hand Lockheed also made the C-130 Hercules.

640K should be enough for anyone.

For those who don't already know, the smallpox vaccine is the not made from smallpox.
It was originally made from a virus commonly known as "cowpox", although they may have used the horse version for development.

smallpox virus is "variola"
the vaccinating (cowpox) virus is "vaccinia"

The point is, we don't need smallpox to make more vaccine and would not do that anyway.

The CDC has enough vaccine to vaccinate everyone in the USA for smallpox, should it come to that.

What if it turns out that the disease that killed all the Martians when they attacked back in 1938 was smallpox, and what if that was the ONLY disease they were susceptible to?
Wouldn't we feel like dummies if we destroyed all our
supplies and they attacked again?

The samples are begin sent to Fort Detrick's The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, so it kinda makes sense.

Good point, the word "exploration" includes the sense of searching, examining, or looking for discoveries which includes any manner.

However, I was using "exploration" in the sense of the first definition: http://www.oxforddictionaries.... :
"The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it"

Some history
near earth space exploration:
1: sputnik
2: Yuri Gargarin ...
ISS

exploration of moon:
1: Luna series; Ranger series ...
2: Apollo 8

exploration of Mars:
1: Cosmos, Mars, Mariner projects, etc ...
2: year 2036, Sir Richard Branson's wheelchair gets stuck halfway up Olympus Mons, thus ending his second attempt to be the first to climb it. (joking)
However, many people believe (hope) the robotic exploration of Mars is to be eventually supplanted by human exploration.

venus, mercury, gas giants
1: well, yes, all robots. I don't believe we'll ever want to send a volunteer human there.
2: perhaps we'll send someone to the Jovian moons. I hope that someday our space exploration ability will allow that.

stars:
1: telescopes: radio, microwaves, infrared, visible, UV, X-ray, and gamma. also looking for extra-solar neutrinos
Will we ever get humans out of the solar system? Who would _not_ want that?

So, counting the number of planets explored by robots and those explored by humans, then historically robots outnumber humans.
You got me there.

As for the egregious insults, AC, why did you do that?

Historically speaking, space exploration started with robotic devices who later get replaced with astronauts.