I see a possibility for a cold fusion conference in a Physics department.

Yay, thanks for explaining for me. This is exactly what i meant. When there are 500 people held by a largeish number of hostage takers, it is not normal crime but terrorism. Sharpshooters or negotiations won't help. Obviously, i didn't meant to gas a bank building during a botched bankrobbery, but meant obvious terrorist acts, like the russian case.
In such cases, saving 400 out of 500 is actually a victory.

You don't have to go that far and outside of biology for an analogy. It is simply like a virus.

The result is a stopped heart. So what's the difference?

Also, if you can save 400 of 500 in a hostage situation and catch all the 10+ terrorists. Go for it. The terrorists would kill them anyway and if they escape, they can continue their business.

He discovered the evidence, he didn't draw any conclusion.

From the article:

"Kovtyukhova tried leaving out various agents and found that the oxidizing agent wasn't necessary for the reaction to take place." when using her mixture of acids (without the oxidizing agent) on boron nitride (a compound with a structure similar to graphite).

Then she balked at trying the same mixture on graphite based on "the extensive literature saying that the oxidizing agent was required". Why? Why she tried to remove that frigging agent in the first place then?

I mean: She knew that her technique without the oxidizing agent works on a material similar to graphite. She knew that the oxidizing agent is bad for graphite. Then why insisting on it???

Those are hindering or directly endangering the government's work. They should be transferred to gitmo.

So a senator coming from Texas, shooting these guys, will be doing exactly what a representative should do?

I thought it was already mainstream. So this news means, it isn't.

Except if you go nowhere, because then you are still somewhere.

tinfoil threads in this fabric? Otherwise radio waves could still leak through. Just asking...

You mean, other than letting a foreign company doing spy work in their country? LOL :)

Ever scanned handwritten documents?

I work for a video game company, D&D definitely made me successful.

Scientists don't know what will happen to a dolphin getting in the way?
Well, either they explode, or just get their brain squashed. It could be they just become permanently deaf or just scared shitless and swim to the shore to die there.
Either case: they die, who cares which way?