The greatest discoveries don't come from a "Eureka!", but from a "Huh, that's odd..." (Be careful though, the young earthers are already jumping on this to try and disprove carbon dating.)

I needed a laugh. Thanks!

Oh, were you serious? Tesla did a lot of great work, but his tower was not a power plant (it was intended to transmit power, not create it, and it didn't even do that especially well) and wave power is interesting, but not a slam-dunk solution by any stretch.

Fukushima is/was 40 year old designs.

Where did you hear it would take 1000s of years? 10s definitely, maybe 100s, but not 1000s. Also, at the height both nuclear attacks detonated, almost all the reaction byproducts were swept up in to the stratosphere and dispersed over a much larger radius than, for instance, Chernobyl.

GP was being sarcastic.

This has nothing to do with the fuel. Fuel is cycled out every couple years. This is about the plants themselves.

Research takes time. Also money, which the current US political environment doesn't want to spend. But rest assured; China, India, France, and others are still working on it, even if the US isn't.

Yes, of course; wires up to a few hundred meters in length, THAT's why we have a network reaching 40,000,000 meters around the world.

The guys bio suggests he knows at least a little bit about software (or at least running a software company) but he's obviously an idiot when it comes to hardware.

!! When are your meetings, I want to join!

The highest score for a game on metacritic last year was 96. Only 23 console games, out of over 260, scored above 90. I think people might be exaggerating a bit. http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-video-games-of-2011

Really? This got modded up? Guys, if you're going to bash these scientist, you really should read more than the two or three sentences endlessly re-quoted out of these thousands of messages by the usual right-wing suspects. That's what the actual investigations did, and why they ultimately cleared them of wrongdoing. (If it makes you feel better, they did say they were big meanies.)

Go ahead and do all the math and I'll bet that 95% of scores move less than 5%. There's really very little wrong with a simple average.

Since when is seven years later equal to "on a regular basis"?

I just recently replaced mine because the plastic case was decaying beneath where my hands rested; loving the aluminum.

Awesome. So does this mean that section 508 has to be extended to non-governmental entities, too? (Btw, /., you're in violation; I see at least two non-text elements without text equivalents while I'm typing on this page.)

Despite your implication, there is no "persecuted genius" (a /. reader wish-fulfillment dream for sure) story here. I mean, he was a genius, of that there is no doubt, and he was persecuted, but they weren't really connected. Even in his own lifetime his work was honored and well-received. Where the persecution comes in, is in the conviction for homosexual indecency, and having his security clearance (and thus, most of his ability to continue working) revoked, and being subjected to court-ordered chemical castration. But to know about that, you'd have to scroll up on the wikipedia page.