I fly a lot of R/C models ranging from turbines to electric powered helicopters. The chemistry in the batteries has changed over the years but the highest output batteries right now are lithium polymer. Now, there are some A123 type batteries that are better and getting better but most of the extremely high powered aircraft right now use Li-Po. Battery failures can be caused by several things but what alarms me about putting something like this in a vehicle is the hazard of fire in the even of an automobile accident. When you have a high impact with some of these batteries and a cell is ruptured - the packs begin to puff - then vent. When they vent, the heat is thousands of degrees which will set off other cells in the pack. Think of the old stories about exploding gas tanks in the event of a car crash. Now think of all of these batteries packed into tight places under trunks and back seats and getting rear-ended or even just a cell going bad...or the balancer in the charger going out and overcharging a cell causing failure in that cell. A failed charger can cost you your entire car...or better yet, your house. Think of this thing going up in the garage...and you having a gas water heater installed out there. This stuff is dangerous enough as it is right now.

So do gas, state and local sales taxes get applied to the space program? Did those taxes contribute to the Apollo program? I understand the statement you're making and its true but I think the context was within taxes contributing to the space program.

I'm not sure I understand why something so large was missed by Voyager. I understand the difficulty of viewing something like this from Earth but those probes were right there.

What the heck is a climate denier? THERE IS NO CLIMATE. ITS ALL IN YOUR MIND

Actually, that statement right there already tells me that the article has an agenda.

I just want to be able to marry myself and file myselves as a depedents.

WoW is a residual cash cow. They hope to do the same thing with StarCraft 2 by increasing ad revenue with Battle.net I don't think the comparisons mean much except that they are internally projecting how one game is going to do in comparison to their already established MMORPG.

All part of SKYNET's plan....

Who do you think will take over if Windows dies? It won't be Linux. It will be the Mac! They already are easier to use than Windows (which is easier to use than Linux in many cases). It's more stable than Windows in most cases. Has great market share and is more poised to move into the empty space should Windows lose market share. Also, the iPhone is the perfect gateway device. People get familiar with it, the UI, they like it...so, the Mac feels more natural. Linux will not make it to the desktop because of the Mac OS. Just my prediction.

Not to mention, you can't make a tv show involving data transfer any more without writing into the script that the person transferring the data has a USB drive on their keychain. It used to be floppies...then it was full size CDs (see Ford Fairlane), then minidiscs...now USB flash drives.