"The laws of physics in our corner of the universe seem to be finely tuned to support life."
Now don't run into too quick conclusions! We don't really know whether this corner supports life better than the rest of this vast space, do we?
The life is so complicated.

Naturally.

Equals to "can't figure time" ?

The work day is "not 9 to 5" in all countries. In here its 8 to 4.

It would make it much easier to calculate the flight duration reading the time table.
It would be easy to check whether that shop located on the other coast is open or not. Just see their add and glimpse your watch.
Without DST it would be easy to check whether the guys are at work on our far-away-office.

Totally agree. Get also rid of the "Daylight Saving Time". Noon would still be when sun at highest, but that would happen at different time depending of the location. Isn't that natural ?! Actually the sun is not at it's highest at 12.00 even in the current system, except when: 1) not using DST and 2) on correct latitude of the time zone. On the other side of your time zone the sun could be at highest just after 11.00 or before 13.00. And the stupid DST adds another hour mistake.

The article is assuming that an universe existed before Big Bang. If that was the case it would be feasible to guess that the bang happened BEFORE every little mass (or massless) particle dropped into the black hole to explode. There is a reason to cause the big bang to happen (maybe a critical mass ?) and if I were to explode as the big bang I couldn't wait for every little particle, would You ?

I have understood that big bang theories assume that before that there was no space or time. So no universe before that. We'll never know.

The one I'm most waiting is not in the list. Iron Sky.
http://www.ironsky.net/

Reliable rumours say that civ5 will use a super close view where most of the screen is filled with face of the selected unit. This enables the player to fully see the facial expressions and and have richer gaming experience. Of course You can take a bigger view, but then you will see only clouds.

And the "Large World" consists of 20 hexagons.

To give all the equal opportunity to fight in wars, all unit are of same power. The Phalangs will successfully defend against Warships. This is good, because it would be sad if rich people would win all the wars.

AMEN !

Bury the Plasma deep. I dont want it's widgets. I want the icons I had on my Desktop to work as they did earlier.

I'm now very near switching to Gnome, after many years on KDE.

What a handy tool for ethnic cleansing. No doubt China will start using it in Tibet in no time !

When ever a new type of weapon is developed outside USA it's "a scary new development in the global arms race" but really WHO is the biggest weapon developer with a huge margin ?

You've seen it in the news: when a US company is developing, let's say, a new material, the first possible solution is for military. Like there wasn't any other problems than security in our world.

USA has a supremacy in military power. Today's security related threads USA is facing can not be solved with developing new weapons.

The article clearly says the pics are based on old data: "thinning between 2003 and 2007".

WHY ? Where's the NEW data from 2008 and 2009 ?

I vote for Shanghai. Much bigger downtown than ANY american city.

You're wrong. 30 kWh per hour is not 30 kWh per sq-hour. It is 30 kW.

The difference between "30 kW" and "30 kWh per hour" is that the latter power is promised to run for a full hour. "30 kW" may be true for half a second but you never can make the nergy amount of 30kWh within an hour.

30 kWh is something, but how long does it take to collect that? 30 kWh for each car hardly succeeds!
It could be calculated for each year, maybe..

Anyway kWh is a measure of amount of energy, not power. If the plates power would be 30 kW, it would take one hour to collect 30 kWh. But 30 kW is way more than the car normally uses.

In Shanghai you cannot even see the sun (every non-cloudy day) because of the smog! Or moon at night.

Microsoft's trying seems so pathetic. It is hard to thibk any way the old dinosaur MS could anyway create anything better search engine than google and (soon ready) Wolfram Alpha. There is no space between.