The UAE will be inundated by rising sea levels, and then they will no longer have a shortage of water.

More diversity does not mean more activity.

More diversity could simply mean more entropy, but it also could mean more than one simultaneous mode of function. It's the latter that the authors are hypothesizing.

It really did not take much effort to RTFA.

Replying to myself is bad style, I know, but I just want to add:

They'll figure it out eventually. Those people are NOT idiots.

I was at a Carnegie Institute open house a year ago and was chatting with the lead scientist, and I asked him to describe Dark Energy in terms that my 10 year old son could grasp. He said "it's a correction to our equations so that our math agrees with our observations."

That's when I stopped believing in dark energy. They just haven't made enough observations.

Oh shiat. That's Sean McAfee I'm thinking of. My error.

Your sig quotes an a.t legend. Hats off to him.

There's actually a theatre in my town that charges only $2 per head for matinee's, but it's a second run venue, so you have to wait a few weeks to see a title.

Great for taking the kids, though... no metaphor. And $1 hot dogs. But you gotta put up with the other kids.

You get what you pay for. Including the hot dogs.

When I can sit in a theater naked, with a glass of vodak in my hand and porn on my 'puter, I'll pay for a ticket that costs as much as a monthly subscription to Netflix.

The hollywood profiteers can go to hell.

Well, I better not show you where the lemonade is made. /sweet, sweet lemonade