I, for one, welcome our climate-changing overlords!

Seriously, it's way too cold out there.

"Mathematics is an exact science"
and
"Miracles do not happen"

Mass doesn't lose its "physical parameters"e, true. But a physical object does! I have a spaceship. It is accelerating by some means. My question is: at what speed approximately it becomes a "set of protons and electrons" instead of its normal shape? To what speed it can accelerate without losing its shape?

Everybody knows that only photons can reach the speed of light in vacuum.
What happens with a solid object if we are starting to accelerate it?
To what speed can it accelerate without losing its physical parameters (by ionization, atomic reactions etc)?

No, I am not saying about returning to ISS. I am talking about the possilbility of using shuttle resources while still connected to ISS and then using resources of ISS, setting shuttle in frozen state.

Also, what options about using MKS were investigated? Was it possible to host all austronauts there after life support on Columbia has been exhausted, and then gradually evacuate via Sojuz and/or Atlantis?

What happens if, for example, Kansas proposes law which mandates NO kill switch on smartfones?

Talend.com offers Talend Open Studio - a great free software product for flow-based visual programming, based on Eclipse.
I used it for projects for 5 years and was amazed, how easy to make complex data transformation by dragging and dropping components and links.
A result is a java (or Perl) program, which can run standalone.
The program is a visual data flow, easy to modify and understand even for non-programmers.
I really appreciate Talend team effort and recommend this product for all, who need data transformations.

Moscow. 169 ms.

Okay.

I needed to go to the hospital, but the car wouldn't drive because it said I had a broken brake light
I missed my flight and lost my job, because the broken brake light detector was faulty
My car drove itself to the repair shop, and got a ticket for a broken brake light on the way
My car drove itself to the repair shop while I was indoors, and I came out to drive to the hospital and had no car

And, if you overrided that (by using manual handle logged by special insurance sealed registrator) and then on your way
near red light your car would have been rear-ended by a heavy truck, leaving you paraplegic, would you be happier?

Why not? It's, at least, free.
http://www.khanacademy.org/about

Ruboto IRB (in Google play)
tuProlog (from their site)
BASIC ( in Google play)

Not so bad. Need no root.

An H-1B bomb?

Install AIDE and go for a walk in a park with your phone, having your IDE handy with you. Or put your phone/pad to a treadmill in front of you.

how to eat your cake and have it too ?