And because it's Britain, there isn't much to worry about. The project will be delayed by 8 years, overrun its budget by about 12 Million GBP. They'll come up with a crap logo for it as they did for the Olympics, and within a few hours of launch, the drones will malfunction and start tasering trees; eventually the whole project will be scrapped for health and safety reasons, I mean, what if the tree falls on someone while it's being tasered?

What a shame. It took a move by a large company like Google to get you to wonder about supporting IE 6, rather than reaching this conclusion through your own experience and common sense. Of course, this shame is also a blessing, as I'm hoping that it will get others like you to question the same, and hopefully companies will all follow suit.

You were lucky. In my town, they painted a picture of a white cycle on the bus that was waiting to hit you. And they covered the bus in sharp spikes just in case you had the luxury of brakes.

Would I have been so forgiving if it were IE that were late with their security additions?

Thanks for adding the security features to Chrome, developers at Google. That is all.

Virgin Media (In the UK) throttles your speed if you download a certain amount of data between certain times. For example, on the M package, if you download 1.5 GB between 1000 and 1500, they bring you down to 200 or 300 kbps. That seems fair to ensure that nobody's encroaching on someone else's speeds (although I'm no network engineer, so someone else can confirm whether this is a legitimate line of reasoning by them).

Also, you're supposed to say "First Post"

It depends on the meteorite being studied. When a meteorite is discovered, scientists can study it and compare it to moon rocks. They can compare the composition and makeup of the rock with the moon rocks and they'll find that the meteorites bear a strong resemblance, thus making it probable that it came from the moon.

For Martian meterorites, they can look at a few other things. You can first check to see if it's igneous. That indicates that it might have come from a place with molten rock and it solidified at some point. That in turn indicates that this came from a planetary body. Now that you've established it came from a planet or a moon and not the asteroid belt, you examine other things. The meterorite might have gas bubbles in it, so you compare the composition of the gas with your knowledge of the atmosphere of other planets. In the case of ALH84001, they may have seen that the rock had lots of Fe, like Mars, and that it had gas bubbles which matched what previous landers on the planet may have observed. They then come to the conclusion that the meteorite in question is probably from Mars.

As for your other questions, the wikipedia article rightly points out that ALH84001 might have been contaminated. That's why you see articles like this peppered with maybe and probably every few words.

What would be more appropriate here than Java? Obviously not Mono/.NET Compact Framework, that's going to be years behind the 'latest' Android OS version. Obviously not ObjectiveC, as it's not a language but a joke.

I agree.

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So all they need to do now is prove that 1 = 6.

There are already many other software based ereaders that exist, this one is just a bit more featured. Or am I being cynical again?

It took the author of TFA 3 years to realize it though. For that, we must applaud him. Next week, he's going to be writing about MySpace.

I know I'm going to sound like a naysayer, so, hey, I may as well nay say.

Google's probably going for a tablet as well, so 2010 will likely be the year of the tablet - in the form of iphones and iclones, with much larger screens, the next must-have at the coffee shops. But it's going to fall flat on its face. It's too close to netbooks, but not as useful as a netbook.

Nay, I say, nay

Two scenes in particular. The first where she's teaching him how to 'fall' and use the leaves to break the fall. The second was when they introduce the "last shadow" pterodactyl. My thoughts, out loud, were "I wonder where that's going to be used in the story."

I saw someone rolling his eyes so much they became unscrewed and he had to be taken to a mechanic.