No, no! Here come the Men In Black!

He's a physicist. He'll have assumed a spherical wall in a vacuum.

Actually, Great Whites don't even hunt us out of necessity: We are literally useless to them as food. All they ever do to us is take a bite, realize their mistake, and carry on looking for a worthwhile meal.

The trouble is, given their method of taking a bite involves slamming into their target at high speed and sinking hundreds of teeth in, you may well have been torn in half by the time they go "oops" and spit you back out...

As has been shown time after time, the loss of apex predators is disastrous for all levels of an ecosystem.

(If you want examples, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... - loss of wolves lead to over-grazing by elk; reintroducing them not only sorted the elk problem but boosted the numbers of beaver colonies, resulting in less erosion; pushed the cougars back to their traditional grounds; reduced the numbers of coyotes, which increased the number of foxes and thereby decreased the numbers of rodents, which altered the survival rates of various seeds and fungi... a whole cascade of improvements triggered by the return of a single predator.)

Right, because satellite communications, GPS, Teflon, water purification systems... none of these have improved our lives at all.

You're wrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q... - second sentence

HTH

No.

Look up inflation.

I like the ease of travel to other EU countries that i have with my EU passport.

I personally also like the fact that some of the insanity that the idiots in charge have wanted to do have been blocked by EU rules...

RTFA - you wouldn't get any element.

> Carbon shows signs of potentially being rather nastier in its fancy forms

That's like saying "Some types of technology can harm your health".

Carbon is a very versatile element, it can take many forms. Some will be good, some will be bad, some will have no impact.

e.g. There are signs of it being extremely beneficial in buckyball form: http://www.gizmag.com/diet-buc...

And then you can build a mega-city out of such mega-buildings. And then Judge Dredd can't be far behind :)

..,pharma compnaies are "barely regulated"?

You really do have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

It's not bribery, it's a "campaign contribution"

It should be no surprise that a system run by corrupt politicians passes laws that makes corruption legal..

"it is how a few thousand of us feel about the whole thing"

Then maybe you thousands should stop complaining and start contributing to the project, which is so under-resourced problems like this are pretty much inevitable.

Yup, see http://perl.abigail.be/Talks/S... for an interesting example of how a Sudoku puzzle can be solved via Regex :)