Tea is a diuretic too. I wonder how it compares though... do you still get more hydrated with tea than with beer? Is tea a positive hydrator? (people above said beer is a negative hydrator).

There's a pork chop in every beer :)

Early beers didn't actually have much alcohol content from what I've read. The wine was more like what beer is now for alcohol percentage and beer less.

Head for the islands.. of bush, bush beer.

But maybe not Mead, which uses honey, not grains, so agriculture wasn't a big help. Yeah it's not beer but kind of related.

"It can be regarded as the ancestor of all fermented drinks," Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat has speculated, "antedating the cultivation of the soil."
"The earliest archaeological evidence for the production of mead dates to around 2000 BC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead

The theory is that mead was brewed before the beginnings of agriculture and may have spurred it on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead

TV said.
Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_genome_project

Fantastic write-up! Thank you Dr. Bakker!

That's no joke.

I wish but damn the sports. My hope is that the cable companies will be forced into ala carte channel choices by competition with online sources. Or hell, maybe I could subscribe to individual TV shows.

Ah damn, they said "used" instead of "wasted" in the original post.

Maybe some pixels on people's monitors burned out at the moment they read a Yahoo/Marissa Mayer story. Then maybe millions is a fair number, though I'd guess probably an over-count instead. :)

Until they figure it out and down goes your G+ taking with it your Gmail. Doh.

I didn't know they changed their policy

They didn't.

The linked slashdot article from Oct 2011 says "Google+ To End Real Names Policy". WTF. Completely incorrect.

Thanks for pointing out the true current situation.

Here-
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/b612_report.html
The report is a word doc linked at the bottom.

Just a note, the thrusters are canted somewhat offline so that the exhaust mass doesn't hit the asteroid and negate some of the gravity attraction.