There was a DC metro crash with a few fatalities last month actually. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/23/washington.metro.crash/index.html

Wow, mod this up if nothing else for the research.

Perhaps if this takes off they'll have more water to grow grass on a pitch and play real football instead of the political kind.

Hence the reason eskimos can live in igloos without freezing to death. Snow is a great insulator.

The article says adaptation, not evolution. As another reader pointed out earlier ( http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1235689&cid=27985471 ) there doesn't appear to be any new proteins or any new machinery evolving here. Simply changes in the levels of the existing proteins. I'm not paying $30 to view the article and see if they have found any proteins that did not previously exist. If there were no changes however then this is probably not the gun you want to be bringing to that fight.

Not quite accurate. Ascent rate is 1ft/sec.

Descent rates are only limited by how fast you can clear your ears. (Though there are other risks by dropping so fast)

US Navy recommends 70ft/min if I remember correctly.

You can. Non-concealed weapons are legal in many places. A friend of my brother slung his unloaded shotgun over his shoulder and walked through the mall with it (they don't have any signs prohibiting weapons) just for the fun of it. The mall of course called the cops, who arrived, verified it was unloaded, and then told the mall they can't do anything about it because he didn't do anything illegal. Course at that point they got smart enough to ask him to leave, which of course, he did.

Nevermind, google agrees pretty copiously.

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