Don't forget 15 counts of murder. Wasting government resources. Even with all this talk of BP footing the bill, how many tax dollars has this really gobbled up already? At a minimum an FBI investigation should be launched to find everyone who knowingly cut corners and put them away for life.

While I agree with everything you said - the one thing that this magical "paper book" cannot do is contain 10,000 volumes of itself and retain the same meager size of 7 1/2” x 5” by .7” If it could do this, then it would be perfection indeed.

I remember several years back, a new hire training at Dell told the class that you should offer free printers to folks who were upset because printers didn't cost them crap. They would have a new repeat paying customer who was happy they got a free printer and the ink made them so much money. The trainer even rubbed his two fingers together and grinned.

How much will it cost us now to blow up the satellite and avoid collisions? How much will it cost us later when we have to clean up all of this damn space debris and avoid collisions? How is it that we managed to create such a large market for putting things into space, and yet have such a lack of the means to take things back down?

"'Private users are obligated to check whether their wireless connection is adequately secured to the danger of unauthorized third parties abusing it to commit copyright violation,' the court said." What exactly do they mean by adequately secured? Can they fine us for using WEP or WPA instead of the latest and greatest?

I really disagree with the flamebait mod, and unfortunately I don't have any mod points to correct this. Space to some of us doesn't mean "really high in the sky." While I may not agree that space tourism is only considered when venturing as far as the moon, I feel that an orbit around the earth or a stay on the/a space station would be something a bit more worthy of a space tourism title.

Pay no attention to the amount of data they let loose upon their facebook pages. Nor do they care, as long as they can access their online farms. They're already giving out their credit card numbers to buy fuel for their tractors.

I say we forget about all this research nonsense and just go out and do something. Let's dump huge quantities of silver glitter all over our existing clouds so they are even more reflective! Then, when it rains, the clouds make whatever they rained on shiny too! All we need to do is just keep seeding the clouds with more glitter until the whole world looks like Lil Jon's record breaking diamond pendant.

I like the concept you have here, but couldn't the ever expanding void of space somehow be the infinite amount of storage these calculations require? Are the outrageous amounts of calculations created by these molecules the driving force behind space expansion?

As we move further and further into the networked aspect of gaming, most games will probably all be available through digital download. No more disks, no more cartridges, just the huge SSD inside the console. Unless you count that as a cartridge... The only downfall I could see would be not letting your friends borrow your games anymore, but you might get a letter in the mail with a court date if you keep it up!

All they need to do is send someone to Mars, all alone and with a few HD cameras. Have him send his footage back to be edited by the same folks who make Survivor Man, and Voila, instant Mars reality TV. Even if the more scientific community doesn't agree, it would definitely get more attention by people who currently don't follow anything space related. Probably creating a better atmosphere for commercial opportunity, too. Hell, I'd watch it.

Why not set a mission to bring the Apophis asteroid into earth orbit since it's trajectory brings it closer to us anyway? We wouldn't have to worry about sending a probe or exploration team out to the distant reaches of space to do a small science project about water mining. We could knock out two technologies at the same time. Learning how to effectively maneuver an asteroid, which seems to be a hot topic as it is. Also, asteroid mining - for pretty much whatever. We would have the damn thing in our back yard and could do whatever we wanted with it.

It's keeping some of the users who shouldn't be on a computer in the first place from mucking it up with stuff they copied from their home systems. The biggest problem of a large installation is the users who think it's a great idea to try to install hacked software they downloaded from TPB, or that it's OK to try to load NES roms that they found somewhere. These are the kind of people who don't even scan the stuff they download on their own systems, and then they install it on a government system without a second thought.

It's no wonder we can't make much progress in space when it costs so much just to barely get there. Where are our space elevators?!

I agree that this article is very lacking on details. I would like to know more about how the hydrogenosomes affect the creature's mobility and whether or not a larger animal could be sustained with these organelles.