In the USA, yes there are (can't speak for other countries). It is afforded the same status as lawyer-client or doctor-patient. A spiritual advisor (priest, minister, rabbi, shaman, spaghetti wizard) may not be compelled to reveal what someone told him PROVIDED the communication is in the context of providing spiritual advice or counseling; this context is generally construed very broadly.

Who's idiots are you referring to?

All of the questions revolve around the carbon cycle. The point is to make sure that college students understand the carbon cycle so that they can discuss global climate change in every college class from physics to poetry.

No, he probably would not have. He fought and defeated the Selden patent, which was just this sort of troll patent.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsseldona.htm

"If time travel is possible..."

It has already been done; since we have no record of visitors from the future then it must not be possible.

Ah, you arrogant humans, thinking you're interesting enough to pay a visit to.

Um, roofs do not need to support a lot of weight, there's generally nothing on top of them. Unless you happen to live in Buffalo, NY and are carrying a heavy snow load. But this house is being built in Malibu. Weight loading on this roof is not a factor.

And the structural elements inside an aircraft wing are optimally designed to distribute the loads typically found on a wing, not a roof. Even a half-assed engineer could design a truss system better suited to a roof than a jumbo jet wing.

Scully was referring to himself, not Jobs.

Knowing whether radioactive decay rates are constant goes to our fundamental understanding of matter. How does that not have significance??

The real "bad" is correcting a spelling mistake with another spelling mistake.

The word santax wanted is 'personnel'.

hard there.