No, Asia was at the beginning. Both the sun's and moon's apparent motion is East-to-West, but the moon's *actual* (monthly) motion is West-to-East. The moon's orbital velocity is faster than the Earth's rotational velocity (in magnitude,) so the shadow's net velocity is still West-to-East.

I have a better proposal. How about: the carriers charge more than the current market will bear, giving an opportunity for cheaper alternatives (such as, I dunno... Facebook messaging) to arise. Then the carriers start to see their SMS business dwindle away. Oh wait, that's already happening. Gosh, and no regulation needed!

That's amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!

wide screen is good for watching movies, but crap for development work.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that you are one of those devs who insist that everyone keep their code less than 80 columns?

I used to make arrow-to-the-knee jokes, and then I took a vagina to the penis.

Since no one has-- as of yet-- rewarded my blatant attempt at karma whoring, nor called me out for my grammatical/spelling mistake, I'll do the latter myself: "Should of" should've been "should've". Embarrassing...

Because, you know, it's got electrolytes.

Why doesn't the 14% O2 and 4.4% CO2 add up to the original 21% O2? Seems like there is ~2.5% unaccounted for. Is the human body sequestering it somewhere?

when the previous sun went nova.

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Have we forgotten? "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there." (Stupid NO-CAPS slashdot filter...)

Well, if you want to get technical about it, it'll actually be a $99-for-all...

Interestingly, that same stretched rubber band with also warm up, and then gradually return to ambient by radiating away that heat. Then when you release the tension, it will get cold... sucking up the heat it had previously released.

I love how they are both typing on the same keyboard, simultaneously. "Here, let me help you stop that hacker." Pure gold.
Maybe we've misunderstood team programming all this time...

This exchange was hilarious! Was it a spontaneous burst of cooperative improv, or is it a reference/parody of something else? (I tried googling some key phrases...)

To plagiarize from Douglas Hofstadter: Consider a record player X (DNA) that vibrates into dust if it is ever used to play the record, "I Cannot Be Played on Record Player X" (virus). Now build a new record player Y, that is immune to record X. It is now possible to devise some other record, "I Cannot Be Played on Record Player Y", that will have a similar effect on the new record player.