Yup. I'd agree with your comments. But you're clearly a trendsetter.

Most people still think in terms of "setting the VCR" however, IMO.

None of these devices, Google TV or Apple TV, are going to take off unless they offer a simple and effect way for a customer to record a show. This can either be Over The Air or Over The Cable. People WANT this feature because it is ingrained into their thinking.

The ability to On Demand order and watch a show over Broadband still needs widespread adoption and availability. See other posts here about "content."

Without easy PVR functionality, then these devices are just extra devices duplicating my already includes services in my big old stupid DVR/Cable box.

Sure, the "reactors" have reached "cold shutdown."

How is this possible, you might ask?

Simple, because the fissile material is _outside_ of the "reactors."

'nuff said.

600 light years...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html

And thus proving that the rest of the solar isn't isn't a static, unchanging, and dead (lifeless??) environment.

Yay!!!

Noooooooooooooooo!!!

(as revised by George "Tweaker" Lucas)

I think that was only the list of locations that were reporting photos to Spaceweather.com....at the time of the post.

Spaceweather.com is reporting this as subsiding....

Yeah, awesome...then the Taliban bid for it with their opium trade funds and start dropping passive kinetic weapons from space. ooooooohhhhh ahhhhhhh oooooooo

I think the real problem with any of the ideas to move it deeper into space (all of which I'm in favor of, mind you, as I think an orbital station around the Moon, Mars, or Europa would be AWESOME) has to do with radiation shielding and micro-meteoroids.

Similar to the shuttle, which is limited as to how high it can orbit, the ISS would be similarly limited due to radiation and micro-meteoroids. It does not have sufficient shielding from either of these to be placed outside of low earth orbit. Maybe additional shielding could be added, but that would just increase the mass which increased the inertia which increases the energy required to move it out of LEO or one of those other AWESOME locations...