Actually, American Ohio class SSBNs can fire Trident II missiles while submerged. If I recall correctly, the missile is pressurized with nitrogen, preventing damage to the innards from sea water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_missile

When 'deletionists' destroy the work people are putting in, it's not surprising when the people who have put that work into Wikipedia leave the site. There's only a finite amount of things that can be written about and as Wikipedia progresses, the articles that are created must become more and more obscure. But with those kinds of articles effectively banned from Wikipedia, the only editors it needs around are those that upkeep the existing articles.

This is really just consolation for the Nobel Peace Prize he was supposed to win.

Pour out a little Bawls in his honor.

The practical and ethical implications are interesting and all but I want to know how they debugged and field tested this thing... Phillips will soon have an influx in job applications from long haired coders who have an insatiable taste for Pink Floyd.

I defy these researchers to find country birds with a southern drawl and see if it yields the same result.

iTouche.

All I read was "30 years and still no lightsabers".

I'm going to sue Rawlings for all those windows I broke.

If only there were some other charity which they could divert these funds to that would get them out of this hot water... something which would benefit everyone.. perhaps a "Human Fund"?