Well, not necessarily. There could be lot of interesting (read creative) ideas one could have missed. And indirectly, it creates a healthy compitition everybody benefits from.

If that was not the case, we would have had only one type of car, only one type of plane, only one type of phone..and the list may go on.

Yep. That's why Indians used to use astrogers as Finance Ministers (except for Manmohan Singh.)

I agree that dogs do great job. However trained dogs are expensive and they have a time limit.

Back on topic, I was involved in design electronics and algorithms of chemical detector useful for military/security forces. Right now I am involved in design of device that would detect certain diseases. We used nanomaterial and I believe it does great job. It provides great sensitivity and helps package everything in a small 3 inch box.

IANAC, could anybody explain me whether the technology used in the device "ion mobility spectrometry" is better?

All you needed was this keyboard

Long back I heard that in India there are people offering insurance against getting caught by ticket checker. The insured person pays money in advance and travels without ticket, and when caught pays fine and the amount is reimbursed.

I tried switching to Xubuntu, thanks to Unity. Xfce is much better. Works great for me. Hope they will not include this feature in Xubuntu OR atleast provide option to disable it.

I would think about it later. Do they have anything on 'how to attract chicks'!!

300 miles is impressive, and probably because they are using Lithium Ion batteries, it should weight less. With gas prices touching sky, I would certainly be interested in this kind of researh ongoing. Some interesting add-ons to this could be PV cells embedded in the body to charge batteries while driving and add couple of hundred miles on the fly.

Just checked and surprised to see India has 929 million mobile subscribers. That is huge market.

No. This is done typically in India, just before elections, to make sure the voters forget their inefficiency and incompetency while choosing their leaders. This is nothing, compared to 80000 Crore rupees (US$ 20.8 billion) loan waiver before previous elections.

He is planning to prove that NASA never landed on Mars and then he will proceed to prove that NASA found human-like-creatures on Mars which NASA has hidden somewhere in Arizona.

Yep, I was thinking same. The laser from ground will limit its usefulness to line-of-sight distance only.

Another improvement could be to use solar heat on the fly and run Stirling Engine for additional power. That way the plane would be used for way longer period.