I'd say that human waste is certainly much more of a health hazard than cow manure, not that cow manure is very clean, but disease transmission from human to human far outweigh those of cow to human.

Note that microwave antennas can probably also be placed over agricultural fields.

Did the glitch lead to a British warship going to Chinese territorial waters and be attacked by a drilling torpedo and then the Chinese MIG's getting shot down by SAMs coming from a stealth ship?

It's ok, you can turn it into a video game and people will do it for free!

This is a... I would like to try this.

I like that term... Linux hegemony. :D

I'm gonna have to take a bite at this. He was obviously referring to the many moons of Jupiter. Titan perhaps? Isn't that the one we suspect to have an underground ocean?

Because funding in alternative energy, scientific research, and infrastructure does not create "genuine" engineering jobs at all.

Because you can refuse and have the option to go to another doctor. If all the doctors were doing it, then you would have no where to go.

Why use a torrent program at all when you can just run it over HTTP and process it all in JS?

I believe the official spelling is gou shi.

It really depends on the type of substances used, usually an alloy with the correct proportions, but I doubt they would stumble upon a superconducting combination on the chip. (Not that it would matter anyways, since the speed limitation is caused by the switching speed of the transistors).

I believe the Romulans used black holes or something of the like in their ship? But that's just off the top of my head.

PDF isn't a proprietary format. It's ISO 19005-1:2005

I'm pretty sure that's how Spike looked most of the time. :D