At one Innovation Hub, for example, researchers who are inventing new materials that can absorb sunlight or split water are working together with engineers who are building prototypes that could use those materials to generate fuel from sunlight.

And thus became the driving force for ridiculing the current administrations energy policy as it doesn't revolve around "Drill, baby, drill!"

Plants do it, why can't we devise mechanisms and processes to use sunlight to create fuel from water, rather than keep pulling that problematic gunk out of the ground.

I was an early adopter of digital photography, taking many pictures, which still hold up relatively well considering they were taken with a 2 megapixel camera. I've explored limitations and utter fail in how designers of digital cameras completely missed the mark for how they would need to be used.

Largest problem was in how long it took to shift various settings around to get an optimal exposure, something which could be done in a fraction of a second on my old film camera, where practice and experience produced wonderful results. Digital cameras largely made up for this with the ability to take a lot of pictures and then keep the one you like, rather than taking about three pretty good pictures and chosing the best among them.

More recently low end digital cameras have expounded their marvelous Megapixel rating, never mind much of this was empty resolution derived from whatever a processor extrapolated a jpeg to. Image quality for a "14 megapixel" camera could be no better than my old 2 megapixel. Optical Zoom is your friend, Digital Zoom is garbage, only saving you the step of taking a picture and blowing up the interesting bit - there is no magic way to get detail from a blow-up which you didn't have before, particularly in lossy jpeg compression.

At 20 or greater Megapixel Full Frame cameras are finally getting to where higher quality film cameras resided in terms of capture. Convenience of many camera phones produces quick photos, but usually they suffer because they are noisy and rely on tiny lens rather than having the benefit of a larger sensor exposed to much more light through a far greater apperature.

Now you have a Full Frame camera, you should do all your shooting in RAW mode. Memory is cheap and you can always scale downward with Photoshop at home.

I live on the Ring of Fire. I'm aware on a daily basis of the threats to my welfare, though I'm less than an ant on a beachball to the forces of plate tectonics. If it happens, it happens. If I survive, maybe I'll move somewhere safe ... say, New Madrid, Missouri. (c:

Did Mt. St. Rongbad asplode?

Cost isn't my factor, it's I couldn't be bothered If I'm going to interact it's through a phone call.

It never pays to insult a heavy advertiser.

This is the best poop I've ever tasted!

This is government.

It raises its borrowing cap all the time.

They're just trying out this idea in other fields.

Watch out for when they start talking about a credibility cap - "We can lie this much..."

Well, I guess that'll put the skids on the Armenian Genocide play set...

I would have done better than 3.72 if it weren't for that ill-considered Piano I class.

Think about it - a programming student sitting at a keyboard, spending weeks trying to find the CTRL, ALT and SHIFT keys.

So I'm out with the astronomy club with all our cool glass and tubes and stuff and have people looking at Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, M-13, fun stuff like that there. Someone asks, "Which star is Sirius?" I pull out my laser pointer and show them. Little kid says, "Whoa! That's COOL! Mom! Buy me one!"

I tell the mother, "No, do not buy him one. Laser is not toy. Can blind himself or a friend with it. Under no circumstances should you buy him a laser. Buy him a UV flashlight to look at centipedes or something."

Lasers are cool, but only for grown up kids.

I see nothing wrong with the goggles... I see NOTHING! AAAAAHHHHHH

In Soviet Russia, laser puts in the cooler you!

Be even funnier if they find a lot of methane stored in these asteroids, under a layer of dust.

"hey, we could pipe oxygen up from Earth and run big space engines!!!"

Meanwhile, reports from the 1950's showed certain cigarettes didn't cause significant throat irritation. In other studies doctors recommended certain brands of cigarettes.

I guess it's just a matter of finding the right people to .. uh .. doctor your results.

What, and show you all the spots they've put on them? That kind of ink isn't cheap, you know!