I say that people are the problem. If people were courteous enough to follow the Stop Sign rule and not get angry and impatient then we would not need traffic lights. Traffic lights in turn cause the problem of the backups you just described, because of the lag of one driver hesitating and starting the positive feedback loop. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHfibl1AoI&translated=1

...opting out by not flying? http://www.amtrak.com/ or, 1-800-USA-RAIL

At least they aren't blaming Harry Potter for children converting to Wicca or trying to practice witchcraft, and that it is a tool of Satan.

...but I heard this on the RADIO two days ago. But anyway, if you're stupid enough to rob a bank or whatever and then update your facebook or twitter status "i just robbed a bank lol" then you deserve whats coming. I only bother with facebook about once every two weeks, and I find twitter to be absolutely useless.

Why not put one into an unmanned high orbit that will be stable for the next 500 years? Classify it as an orbiting Time Capsule. To be opened 2510. No quibbling over who gets it, etc etc.

Well, depends on the quality of the video. If we assume that video is 30 frames a second, that would make 30,000 words a second and 1,800,000 words a minute. A full length movie at this rate (assuming 1.5 hours) 162,000,000 words, plus dialog. This is of course high-quality video, but its pretty amazing how quickly that adds up.

...Like in 1986 when it took radiation alarms going off in fucking SWEDEN before they admitted that they had literally nuked a city or two...

You could just get a magical eye like Mad-Eye Moody....

Crybaby, cry, make your mother sigh...

So what would happen if we used these superconductors as traces on say a motherboard? Would it be faster/better? We could just build it to put into a chest freezer. Also handy for cooling off the beer quickly.

If it's called Ruby on Rails, and this company is EngineYard, are they going to make program trains?!

I think it would also cause local geological disturbances (read: earthquakes etc) and is done too much, possibly affect plate tectonics as a whole.

should be the you-must-construct-additional-pylons department...