The first place you should ever check if you feel a quake (or something like) is the USGS quake page. After that, if you want to delve into the high sig-to-noise ratio of twitter, go right ahead.

And what precisely of the watcher's is the watcher's can going to watch?

I'm so confused...

We used ASI at my last job. Given how seedy their will call area was (been there more'n a few times), and some other things that occured over the years, I can't say as I'm surprised by this.

... the Planck length would be about as long as a tall cedar tree.

I prefer to measure my Plank lengths in redwood or pine, myself.

Oh, wait...

Just curious why you feel it's necessary to link the PDF in via a frame with some other stuff in the "sidebar" I could care less about.

Here's a direct link to the PDF:

http://beckermanlegal.com/Lawyer_Copyright_Internet_Law/cartoonnetwork_csc_090500AmicusCuriaeBriefOfUS.pdf

Perfectly aware, and I was using a figure of speech. However, explain to me how they're supposed to conduct repairs at 65,000'?

It's amazing how trivial those problems are compared to protecting a blimp at 65,000'.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_Laser:

"If the ABL achieves its design goals, it could destroy liquid-fueled ICBMs up to 600 km away. Tougher solid-fueled ICBM destruction range would likely be limited to 300 km"

65,000' is just a hair under 20 kilometers. That's beans compared to what the ABL is supposed to be able to do against a smaller, much faster moving target, from a mobile platform. You might need a stronger laser than the ABL carries, but as I said before, most blimps aren't particularily tough.

Hmm. Large gas-filled object, presumably with a not overly-thick skin to keep the weight down. Ground based laser of sufficient power to pop a hole in the giant balloon.

Yeah, this is gonna work real well.

Wtf are "${1}" and "$2" supposed to be?

Perl, foo.

s/([a-z])([A-Z])/${1}_$2/g

Real geeks don't strip spaces - they use underscores :P

(Unless you're a JavaScript programmer in which case I'm terribly sorry...)