-1 here too. I'm thinking of moving to 2, and also giving "Funny" a negative modifier. The SNR is too damn low.

Mass != Weight

Stabilize? Once it's out of the corona it should have a normal orbit.

NIMBY might be less of a problem outside the US. For example, I suspect China doesn't give a shit about who wants what on his backyard.

Yeah, like the Spanish lisp, it'll be gone in no time.

Oh, wait...

Nevertheless, any observer moving with the Earth (say, Earth's core) won't feel the Sun's gravity.

Interestingly, Turtles All The Way Down could be modelled as an infinitely long longitudinal wave medium (like a spring), with no reflections.

I'm at that awful stage where I laugh at this article's analogies, yet can't really understand the paper.

Look into Cubesats

Not just with the brain, but also with itself. I heard the brain is ridiculously well interconnected.

It's a different time, back when they were building PCs in their garage it wasn't consumer electronics. Nowadays you can't hope to make a tablet, PC or whatever without getting some serious funding. The alternative is producing more expensive goods so you don't compete with massive factories in China for slim profits.

Yeah, but eventually you'll want grandkids...

Hari Seldon, is that you?

Apple's (and arguably Android's) success at controlling the distribution of software are steps toward more closed environments. Just like Facebook's success takes us nearer to the end of the "wild west" age of the Internet.

Sure, no one is going to take away your free devices nor prevent you from having a proper self-hosted website/communicating through email and IRC. However, if people become content with doing everything through closed services provided by a handful of companies, then you have no choice but to do the same (if you want to keep in touch with friends/family).

That's one reason to hope Apple doesn't suceed. To avoid becoming part of the fringe.

I understand being respectful/tactful if someone I know personally dies. But with a public figure like Jobs, I don't mind people being straightforward like in RMS's statement.