Why would Microsoft adopt Blu-Ray to replace DVD as the standard disc format? The only reason they would do so is to provide an option for playing Blu-Ray movies on the system, and I don't see a need for doing that. If anything, they would probably use the existing HD-DVD technology for it's games instead of paying Sony licensing costs per system to include Blu-Ray. They already have the technology, it's capacity is close to that of Blu-Ray, there are no licensing costs, and it's a possible (though minor) counter against piracy, since not many people have readers/writers. Someone please tell me if I'm totally wrong in thinking this.

That's definitely a possibility. My first assumption was to to assume some kind of industrial appliance. Although I definitely wouldn't rule out radar either. I don't know for sure if wireless signals would be affected, but some years ago a ship entering the local harbor forgot to turn off it's radar and caused problems for CRT monitors throughout my office and around the city.

I thought that the event horizon of a black hole was caused by the immense gravity of the main body. Just an area of space around the black hole where light would be unable to maintain enough momentum to escape the gravitational pull of the singularity. I don't even want to try understanding the calculations that this theory was derived from. If you were able to remove the event horizon, would that not mean that you would be destroying the singularity itself?

Seeding three last time I checked. Always seed to 2.0 if the content was worth the download. If content wasn't up to my standards then I am at least nice enough to seed 1.0. ;)