I eat at least a bar of strong dark chocolate every week, but I'd imagine that even one cup of coffee will have more caffeine than an entire bar of chocolate. I have tried some coffee infused chocolate bars however.

WTF ARPANET isn't anywhere in the constitution, what's wrong with this country??

Ya and the constitution didn't say anything about a free and open internet either! Dumb nerdy hippies

Iceland seems to be doing great actually http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/17/u-s-government-requests-for-google-users-private-data-spike-37-in-one-year/

WTF? Any plant that grows in the ground gets its energy from the sun. So growing our own plants for oil is no better than using solar panels, and is probably better due to the fact that growing plants have to be processed into oil and then burned to get the energy out of it. Also, good luck finding a way to synthesize oil and getting more energy out of it then you put in (it's impossible).

But cable TV companies are often the only option for decent home internet.

Tom Murphy's point is that our constant growth rate is unsustainable, and when the growth stops, the economy crashes.

I imagine that this was done using direct numerical simulation, which is considerably more accurate than any other method. Since turbulent fluid flow is inherently transient, and also involves very tiny wiggles, the only way to fully resolve what is happening is by massive computer simulations such as this one. There is no point to a mathematical approximation, since they are trying to gain some insight into the foundations of the physics of sound. This wasn't just some for-the-hell-of-it simulation.

I'm not implying it's impossible, but assuming modern technology is going to come down and wave itself like a wand, magically fixing all our problems sounds pretty naive to me.

You've got to be shitting me

The screen on mine cracked 3 times. Thankfully I had been coerced into a Staples accidental damage warranty which replaced it the first 2 times, and by the third, they just gave me cash for the original cost of the laptop ($1200!). I went and bought the HP tm2. It's a successor to the tx2500, but has an intel core i5, discrete graphics card (albeit the weakest one made, but still), and a snazzy new (2 years ago) capacitive touch screen. It even had a fairly pain free linux install. Too bad HP's "successor" to the tm2 is an intel atom shitbook.

While rocket scientists likely have lots of education involving fluid dynamics, I doubt they specialized much in erosion.

I didn't know Rick Santorum was on Slashdot

I am in a MS Mech Engineering program and over half of all my professors already do this.