Why do you go to an American website and complain that it focuses on America? If it bothers you that much, go to a website hosted in your own country.

On Mythbusters, you say?

Indeed. One does not simply walk into a field of mones. Be careful!

"Covenants without swords are but words." - Hobbes.

Not the stuffed tiger, the other one.

The Global Hawk is the size of a 747. The Ion Tiger is a small lightweight drone with a 17" wingspan. And the Phantom Eye is large at 150" wingspan, but also described as lightweight. Comparing flight duration seems a bit unfair. Anyone have a better idea how to properly compare efficiency of engines?

I was thinking more along the lines of Also Sprach Zarathustra.

I'm pretty sure niether China nor North Korea got their missiles from Lockheed Martin.

Skate to where the puck's gonna be. If primers are banned or restricted, plans for improvising replacements will be widely available.

Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I didn't realize I was standing on your lawn. I'll remove myself forthwith.

No, it was his Uncle Travelling Matt.

Yeah, the internet must have seemed rather improbable before it was created too.

Which explains how you managed to get everything in that post wrong. I hope you have a better understanding of your own country.

It was up to something like $280 recently. But the people who started it aren't making that money. It's not like they made money out of thin air and sold it.

I wasn't just refering to this article, but to other evidence pointing to how much oil we have. I highly recommend The Age of Oil, a thorough review of the evidence of oil consumption and production. From what I've read (that and other books), we aren't anywhere near peak oil, and there is likely vast amounts of oil not yet discovered. It's amusing to me that by pointing out this evidence, I am immediately branded as some neo-con drill baby drill anti-environmentalist. I actually think we should switch from greenhouse gas polluting energy to renewable energy and drastically reduce our energy consumption and destruction of the environment. But my opinions of what we should do don't change the facts about oil levels.

We first thought we were hitting peak oil in the 1920s IIRC, when the total amount of oil thought to exist in the world is less than what the U.S. uses in a day today. The life expectancy of oil has gone up since then even as our consumption has gone up. Right now, our life expectancy of oil is 34 years. 34 years ago, the life expectancy was les than 20 years. We have been finding oil in massive quantities even as we use more and more. At some point, we'll run out. But we really don't know for sure how much is down there. For a good read, I suggest The Age of Oil, an extremely thorough look at the evidence on oil consumption and production. I've been less than convinced of the evidence that we're anywhere near peak oil. I'm not trying to argue we shouldn't stop polluting. In fact, I think switching to renewable energy isn't nearly enough to save us from disaster.