Google's been pushing offline support pretty strongly on a number of devices. It would be a real waste if my computer were inoperable if the network were down. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to play chess, or write a document or take notes when I'm on a plane or far away from civilization. Even phones have airplane modes these days. I wonder if there is any sort of a file system at all on the Chrome OS. If not, it will be raise the bar for writing apps (even with offline mode support) since you simply have to write code to sync data as well.

I completely agree. Besides, from what I remember from high-school physics, how we "see" *anything* is when light falls on an atom/molecule, these electronics get excited into higher than natural states. When they go back to their natural states, they emit a photon that is characteristic of the material (color etc.). Given this, I don't see (pun intended) how it's possible for such a photograph to be taken.

That needs a much bigger computer, IIRC. Roughly the size and complexity of Earth, its ecosystem and its organisms.

Scientists are always looking for ways to falsify their theories. That is the very essence of science.

It's not the essence, but the method of science. The essence of science is that the universe *is* governed by laws; a statement that most scientists would not accept as falsifiable. As scientists, we are happy to accept that a particular theory is falsifiable, but the conclusion from that is always that "we have to look for another theory", not "maybe there is nothing that explains this phenomena".

Of course, the laws discovered so far have stood up to some pretty heavy scrutiny. I'm just pointing out that it is true that science simply assumes the existence of natural law.