But what's wrong with branching time? You go back, kill your grandfather and end up on a timeline on which you will never be born.On the original timeline you have disappeared.

Sounds no less plausible.

I was as confused as you are. But I found that such a thing was actually proposed just over a year ago and even got a lot of support!

... go back in time and produce TFA in a smaller font. Seriously, the NSA could probably read that from space.

Although I don't agree with you... Spamfiltering means you need data (from a large number of users). Not having free accounts means much less abuse data. Their service will not be as good.

I thought everyone liked the 3rd one the best of all the Prequels. I haven't seen it myself yet, but every single time I complain about the Prequels to someone and then I mention that I haven't seen the 3rd, they say that I missed the best one.

Because the poster stepped out of a way-back machine and didn't notice ...

There are examples of cable that are strong enough in long stretches (2.5km), light (~10kg) and have a high break strength. Such as used in a glider winch. I guess there are extra demands to an elevator.

Power it using lasers - duh.

The problem really isn't and hasn't ever been animation sites. The problem is that Flash has often been used where it doesn't belong; forms on business sites, ENTIRE web sites built using flash so you cannot bookmark a page, and stuff like that, and Flash doesn't work particularly well on touch screens. Like BLINK, Flash has been used and abused to the point where it is an abomination.

Well that's the whole problem: democracy is subject to the voters, so if the voters are blithering idiots, well you're not going to get a very good government.

This is why democracy simply doesn't work in countries with moronic, uneducated populaces such as Zimbabwe, Egypt, or the United States.

More generally, Vivaldi wrote more than forty operas. Which, I think is the actual reference - he founded/wrote Opera.

I don't think it's an interferometer. It's a standard diffraction lens, just like the Canon one you linked, that produces a real image, not an interference pattern. You could stand at the focal point and see an image.

It would be an interferometer if you put a ring of telescopes on the rim instead of at the focus.

So long as you're not looking at something really close, the little bit of parallax you get by going around the planet isn't going to cause too many problems. And if you're looking at something where it does matter, you just take shorter exposures and stack them. As a bonus you get 3D measurements.

Suck it youngsters!

I live in Virginia Beach and still have a copper POTS line with Verizon -- my TV and internet are via coax from Cox. Having copper has it's advantages, like (1) still working in an extended power outage, (2) not having to pay for the replacement battery in the eMTA modem and (3) being able to get phone service from third-party provider. Once you switch to FiOS or simply phone over fiber, you're stuck having to use Verizon over that media and they will *not* ever switch you back to copper.

During one of the last bad hurricanes that caused an extended power outage of a few days, copper landlines were of the few working phones (land or wireless) in my neighborhood / area. I've only been w/o phone service *once* here since 1985, when the power when out across the city for over a week after a hurricane, when the Verizon generators finally ran out of fuel.

Not just companies. The political network overseen by the Koch brothers is getting ready to spend $900 Million on the 2016 elections.