Industrial scale biomass farming is destroying the eroding the soil. The grassland in the Midwest prairie had uninterrupted millennia to grow and create the soil that grows so much corn and soy today. Iowa has lost 10 inches of topsoil in the last 100 years due to soil erosion caused by industrial farming. Good luck powering your iPad off the corn grown in Iowa when the 8 inches left is gone in the next hundred years and the place literally turns to dust.

Spelling, eh?

This bodes well for the prospect of any aliens in future being able to decode the Voyager recordings :)

What you don't understand is that Putin and most Russians cannot contemplate an independent Ukraine. It destroys the founding myth of Russia and Russian nationalism.

When Putin says this like this please tell me there is nothing to be afraid of from this man and this country.

Looks like another nationalistic rant?

Try Patriotic plea.

That might be insightful if by 'pro-Western faction' you actually meant anything. It was not 'pro-Western' policies or governing that cost Yushchenko a second term, it was pathetically weak leadership. And Yanukovich won with a bare majority in a run-off.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that, in US parlance, Yanukovich is a two-time felony loser, twice convicted of aggravated assault and robbery.

His government has moved swiftly and surely to censor journalist, blunt criticism with intimidation of Universities and just yesterday, assaulting a journalist.

This is not about introducing a forward looking tax law, it's about putting in a law that will be used to bankrupt and criminialise the opposition.

Just like they do in Russia

The man is killing the country so he can kiss Putin's ass. Kills me. :(

Here's what happened then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHmhxpQEGPo

Everything going on now is essentially theatre.

I live in Gloucestershire, which is where the "pirate accent" comes from, it's the nominal default accent of the locals

"She's a witch!!"

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So now they finally admit they've not been doing Journalism for a long time now, just turning press releases into articles and marketing them.

What a surprise.

This must be why the 3rd party OS option was removed from the Playstation Slim! SONY *loves* them some customers! {cough}

But we need bacteria to live and digest food...sterility will kill us as surely as more vigorous bacteria. The real question this story raises is how to adapt spacecraft and spaceflight to create more human friendly environments.

"Big, bloated, inefficient government leads to big, bloated, inefficient corps, with no real innovation or market competition. "

Rarely have I read a more egregious pile of nonsense.

Big government causes big corporations which leads to market inefficiencies? What?

First of all, the more powerful governments are, the more powerful regulation is which *limits* the power and size of corporate power. Let's not forget that Government *represents* the People. Zero marks for electing idiots though...as Americans you should be taking responsibility for making sure your elected representatives do what you want them to.

Secondly, the fact that massive corporations have "no real {incentive to} innovation" and distort "market competition" should be encouraging so-called "Libertarians" towards greater government regulation.