Who gives a shit about OS X and Linux? I want a slim mini-itx box in my living room that I can use to play my games. This does that.

As any good viewer of Cosmos knows the church excommunicated the guy who hypothesized about heliocentrism.

I don't think the entire line needs to be a mag lev train but the connection between continents should be. The trip under the straight should be a short as possible with a little noise as possible.

I believe it was a hypothesis that the universe began with symmetric amounts of matter and anti-matter. The recent BICEP2 results should provide a method for us to inquire about that idea either directly or through constraints by tossing out many hypothesizes related to quantum gravity and the nature of the early universe.

Well....there is your problem....asking (pure) astronomy grads a question about physics is like asking a (pure) physics grads questions about math. Sure, they know the stuff they need to know to do their work but they can't answer the deeper "why" questions related to the field.

you are right, however, it is also made in such a way as to provide nothing but trouble when you need to teach kids how to really subtract.

I don't know if that is Common Core's fault. Idiots implement the standards and think they make it easier for kids.The high standards are good, the poor implimentation in many districts is not.

Your obvious parody of the foundation series may not be far off. I am sure there will be a group of highly educated folk who find a place with decent sustainable resources and set up a society based on sustainability and preservation of human knowledge. Then once the chaos consumes existing civilizations it will be able to expand and grow to dominate the world once again...minus the psychologists that lean to use psychic powers of the mind.

so, what you are saying is there is going to be a market in safe, easy to use wooden sailing ships?

where do they get their mass from?

Umm.... If protons, neutrons and electrons all get their mass from particles that in turn get their mass from the Higgs field then the protron, neutron and electron get their mass from the Higgs field by the transitive property.

God used a genetic algorithm.

like, say...statistical research by five independent non-partisan researchers showing the intended effects of a bill being passed are realistic?

Read Paul T's column on Win Supersite. Windows 9 is going to have a start menu for desktop-centric uses.

Any non-business is just dealing with the Start Screen or installed Classic Shell.