Many religious people will tell you the earth is only 6000 years old. To those I say have a look at what the Bible ACTUALLY says. It says that in the beginning the earth got made. Then it sat around for some *unspecified* time. Then and only then after that the SURFACE of the earth was made suitable for habitation in 6 chapters of time called "days". There could have been a bazillion years between the earth first appearing and the start of these 6 "days". In this regard the Bible does not contradict this measurement of the age of the Universe at all. What is does contradict is the erroneous views of many calling themselves Christians. Nothing new there, BTW.

As if all the potential purchasers of a certain class of product are in communication and agreement with each other as to whether an item should have this or that ***FUNCTIONALITY*** (arrrrgh!!!) and is generally put forward by a vendor as if to say that they are totally in compliance with what every other person on the planet except you wants. This usually means they have not got what you want but it's your fault because nobody else on the planet understands your new project so you are totally on the wrong track.

The product name has to begin with a lower case i and contain the word "blue" somewhere.

From 2001 till 2007 I used to have this old Nokia phone, and when the original battery gave up after about 3 years I attached four NiMH 9 Ah D-cells on the back. It would easily run for 30 days. People would often make jokes about it, e.g. asking to have their car jump started. I was always very careful not to take it into an airport because it really did look pretty suspicious.

Big Copper will probably kill it off.

I for one would like to welcome our self-replicating overlords.

Usually the car/truck/bus zooms off a horizontal road and somehow begins it's trajectory at a 20 degree upward angle.

So when the oil runs out, not only will there be one less thing to fight over, the ability to fight will also be greatly reduced. Are those two things a bigger advantage than the disadvantage of an oil-less world?

Imagine a car made out of this kind of metal. Someone ploughs into you, tow the car home, apply a flame and presto! off you go again.