Too bad that forecast for just afghanistan war is over 70 billion. Not to talk Iraq one. Make damn starships not war. Same for the LHC and alike, it's only 5-10 billion compared to hundreds for official military stuffs... set aside black projects (2.3 trillions). We stay on our little mudball destroying resources for making mass destruction systems. Very smart. Maybe we all deserve annihilation.

These so called scientists should stop watching terminator movies. This is typical American post-Quaker vision.... we do _control_ machines. Any type of machine. You put hardwired bounds , as simple as that. We will never do (in the next centuries) a machine that is so smart to think it needs to be 'free' (and so maybe it's not completely wrong) and therefore goes to a friend welder robot and put a railgun on its back. On the other hand, if the first scope of robots will be war machines, then some trouble could arise. This is also typical american... not build robot to help the people, too easy.. let's build an indestructible AI tank with nuclear warheads... smart idea really. We should build space-exploitation/exploration robots. Build a fleet that goes to the moon and after few decades we'll go there and find fully working metal refinery and nice pre-built habitat-domes. But again.. we need to kill each other(and the terrorists!!) first... maybe we deserve robots to subdue us after all. We are dumb.

Rigged and working, more or less same wooden strucuture as the one in the article... plus some inside weights and plumbings/electric rig.. italian engineering on japanese test lab... too bad they didn't use these when earthquake struck... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4q_ytmwyzY )

oh please...do you seriously still believe all this terrorism bs?? soviet russia has fallen and now they need a new enemy...plain and simple. All this makes trillions of dollars move... and that's enough for many to lie and deceive unfortunately. The point after which ppl should start to rebel is passed since quite a while imho, what else do you need? a fully functional precrime dept? no thanks..

or the amount of comments about this story it scarily low?? this is seriously disturbing ppl... you are being wiretrapped all the way warrantless like sheeps.. and you dont move a finger? that's really twisted imho. Remeber what good old Ben Franklin said about security and freedom.... We must be one of the most stupid type of 'thinking' alien specie tho... the one that lives in the same mudball and can't communicate because we don't even speak the same language (think of the embarrassment at the galaxy council)... and we fight our own specie's immaginary enemies....and even more we witch-hunt within the same faction... This is just plain dumb. Human beings should start to behave....

Putting everyone in the same mix is not fair imho. There are 'conspiracy' ppl out there, and they will find all possible tricks to keep on believing everything is fake or whatever. BUT there are also some perfectly normal and rational ppl who have some serious doubts about the first landing. There are some totally undeniable 'flaws' in those pictures, ok nasa said they doctored those, fine then they show us the originals, pretty simple, I think it's a shame if they really have been there in the first flight to have citizens doubt that. Just show those ugly originals, not matter what. But hearing a nasa researcher say that with nowadays technology it will take about 20 years of r&d to put someone on the moon... well ...that stinks. They lost most of contractors projects... schemes...everything... that's a nice scientific way of conducting a mission/experiment... not. Anyway, I hope they will provide some CLEAR pictures for the landing site...to shut up all the crackpot. If they don't then it's time for the citizens to inquiry officially into this.

They were totally completely superior! moreover they left their best jew and alike brains go abroad, imagine if they kept those. As someone said, compare this to what other flew at the time... I can clearly see where B2 comes from.... And not to forget what V1/V2 were if compared to other airplane dumb-bombs... V2 impacted at supersonic speed thousands of miles away. And no satellites nor computers... (well until they find the Reich satellites orbit eh). That's an example of what a really determined nation can do, and all humanity could do (in the right direction of course). If only we would stop throwing sticks at each other... by now we could have been colonizing the inner solar system....no kidding. cheers mrn

lighting up your favorite monument at night is just a waste... ok it makes for nice tourists pics... but thats about it. At most we could setup couple of nights per months when to keep lights on, for touristic reasons. for the rest... it's pretty useless. Seeing the milky way, and not only that , is something that could inspire us, remind us that there's not only this polluted world we're killing, and that we should preserve all this as long as possible for others to see...maybe the next step in civilization is when one manages to sustain its own env. or not.... maybe it's what makes warp drive space colonization vs religious nut oil megacorp driving all in the abyss.

just use/build nuclear hydrolysis plant to make gas from seawater, no big deal compared to the benefits. to me it seems much more realistic idea compared to wire-based space elevator...

there is vacuum on the other side:P no prob!