How is that more 'succinctly' when it is totally wrong? Nothing is calling out to space as the process is entirely passive.
The post by the google employe was fine and can stand on it's own.

Plus the biggest changes seem to be in the colors not the growth which might be related to the fact it was taken by two different telescopes....

Yes... because that never rounds off numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Rounding_rules

This is true.
The Bronze star while being a 'combat' medal doesn't require one to participate in combat to receive it. And in fact sets the bar pretty low with only requiring ' meritorious achievement or service'.
This new medal's requirement of 'extraordinary achievement' would indeed seem to place it higher then the bronze star. Point of fact 'extraordinary' is the same wording found on the service crosses; the second highest award after only the medal of honor. Where as one can find meritorious achievement as a requirement on something as common as a Achievement medal (The military's "good job" awards).

In our old building we use to have a quite robust snack locker system with some of the bigger ones probably doing 100 dollars of business a day and well stocked with every imaginable sugary treat.
But when we moved to our new site the bosses signed a ‘non-compete clause’ with the cafeteria in the building.. I’ve seen less complaining about people being forced to do yearlong deployments to Afghanistan then I did the day our snacks died.
R.I.P.

I have a gut felling that putting 60 earth sized objects in orbit around a Jupiter wouldn't work.
Small planets don't fair that well... less you forget that our own moon is also in the 'habitable zone'

Why do we have to be humorless nerds? Some of us do really pay negitive taxes.

Child care credit $1,200
Education credits $810
Retirement savings contribution credit $200
Residential energy credit $1,309
Additional child tax credit $2,000
American opportunity credit $540

I paid ~3k in withholdings this year but am getting ~5.6k back
The government is giving me over 2500 dollars for living in this country.... negitive taxes :)

Yah but you can test that by turning it off.....
I mean to simulate an attack on the base you don't actually need to drop bombs on it.

Yah but then we wouldn't be allowed to pull it any time we want for whatever reason we want....

Why do we need an exercise to jam our own satellites? Shouldn't they be practicing jamming GLONASS or something?

Wow... I was reading the trivia for that show and saw this.
"Aired back to back with Rubix the amazing cube."
...
I take back everything bad I thought about Space Invaders: The movie...
Apparently the bottom was reached in 1983 and it's actually been all up hill since then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYs_GCy9PRk

But as long as I install my own tracking device there is still hope right?

So then why hasn't the country since the government has been out there with alligator clips doing legal intercept since the days of the telegram? It hasn't because there are legal requirements to do so. You have an expectation of privacy... until the judge signs a warrant saying they can intercept your communications.
If you have an issue with them intercepting your Voip then logically you must also be against lawful intercept on POTS and Cell phones. When will be staging the protests rally against those terrible government intrusions?

I don't think twice about using my home phone because the police have ability to intercept it.
I don't think twice about using my cell phone because the police have the ability to intercept it.
This is really is one of those situations that if you aren't doing anything illegal don't worry about it and if you do worry about it find another tool.

I'll agree with you that the 'NGE' was what ended up killing the game. But the game was deeply flawed before then and was probably going to die anyway. I personally loved the 'sandbox' and ran a pretty good sized crafting enterprise (few hundred mines/factories, good size player city, even established suppliers). But there was nothing to do beyond that; say my enterprise made 1 million credits a day or 1 billion what was the point? Hanging out with people is fun, but it can only take you so far. Or say I was a fighter what was the point of trying to max one skills when a the most powerful creatures required no more thought then 'everyone start shooting and running in circles' And any sort of PvP had to be volunteered into by setting a flag and had no point other then to simply kill the other person who turned on their flag. It was basically what any other game would call a duel. Now what they should have done is added more content in for the 'end game' rather then try to reboot the whole thing as a new game. But regardless with out major intervention the game was probably doomed anyway. They just choose badly in their efforts to save it.