The iceberg part is relevant. With this thing packed inside an iceberg, where does he plan to store a years worth of rations? How does he realistically expect to dispose of a years worth of shit? He's going to be pretty rank after a year inside a small ball.

And, if it just sits on top of the berg, who cares? If it's inside the berg, again, who cares? there is no actual science that can not be done in a much more reasonable way.

is Red Bull sponsoring this? Seriously, why does crap like this make it to the front page of Dicedot? Oh, that's right...

PETA themselves euthanize plenty of animals: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry...

So... They didn't test the iPad / content combo to establish usability / feasibility / usefulness prior to dropping all this cash?

Six months is not a year, and a year is not three.

Now, we are sending up a guy who will be there a full year, so we may see other things. Subtle (or not) effects of neurosis is almost a certainty. But such isolation could bring out more serious manifestations.

I think studies of prison inmates in isolation would probably be useful.

It might be interesting to look at studies done with long term prisoners in jails, where isolation and the effects of it, are fairly known.

My guess is that at this point, any Apple watches on Ebay are counterfeit...

This is really the dumbest of ideas. Probably what is going on is that Amazon wants to patent a bunch of random "done with a drone" type stuff to be used against other companies like the Patent Troll that is Amazon.

I wonder what HP's policy for manufacturing and sourcing are with regards to human rights?

I prefer to up my security level by using ROT13 exactly 24 times. I mean, you can't make heads nor tails of that mess of letters.

Not buying it. I think if someone wanted to unload a substantial number of bitcoins - perhaps in the $100k range - that exchange would balk.

That is a purported value. It's questionable if anyone would actually hand over the cash if you wanted to exchange 20 or 30 bitcoins for US dollars.

That's a shame. Why has the Right Wing been able to take hold their? Do the majority of Australians think that way?

I've heard that things like privacy and freedom are hard to come by in Australia.

To brew the ultimate "ice" beer.