That is why every country has elites. If you eliminate elites you end up with leaders such as Lenin or Stalin.

The Holy Church always knew, that for God like observer time is not an issue.

Since Bush era, SciAm has more and more to do with extreme left propagnda, lest and less with science. This behaviour is very consistent with leftist media.

Since more and more people belive in global warming, why not charge them extra for this ?

So much for the "Land of the Free". But this is all for the "Good of the Children" I'm sure.

Microsoft could have attracted more buyers if they would not try to be Apple. They should have priced Surface at almost cost of making them and with some holiday sales even below cost of making them. They also should have chosen to completely open the Metro OS to let any amatour and small programmer to write any application they want without Microsoft store permission. This was precisely what originally won Windows the place it is in the PC market. They should have also left PC OS with a choice os conventional Start menu so the core customers would not be enraged. By closing their OS, pricing it at Apple level and enraging large number of current PC users they ended up at what they deserved - completle failure.

Actually Venus and Mars temperatures correlate very well with distance from Sun.

What rush ?

I wonder how many people are actually capable of designing pieces in CAD type software to print it. BTW CAD actually needs strong PC. Designing CAD parts on tablet or phone will be interesting masochistic exercise.

Another win for LGBT crowd.

Science doesn't exclude religion.

Water can be treated. It is all about the cost. If water treatment cost less than the energy obtained it is still a good thing for society.

If this goes through, the safest way to protect private PC regardless of if you are a pirate or not would be to start using Linux desktop. Id does not guarantee 100% malware free but it is one of the safest. Linux desktop might still have a chance !.

This is not neccesairly that good. I would rather see law change that prevents trolls. This development can easily evolve to a tool where large rich corporations will buy politicians to shut down legitimate small inventors. Generally I don't like governemtn to decide who is and who isn't a troll.

Copernicus was less than 1%.