Prescient story about the rise of this from 1940, highly recommended reading.

With much effort, I can precariously balance a 40 year old bow tie and get OTA on a 7 year old roku tv, which buffers 2 hours letting me skip ads. It was much easier to stream Locast when it it existed, as a nonprofit rebroadcaster specifically allowed by copyright law, until a (Iâ(TM)m sure, now, very comfortably retired) judge decided Locast didnâ(TM)t keep their donations siloed enough in his/her opinion. I watched more legacy TV, and far more OTA ads when Locast existed, but given the graying state of my technology, Iâ(TM)m probably not the ideal consumer.

This requires an interlock that forced operation of the fan any time the gas stove is on. That's probably not a bad idea for any stove, as electric cooking also produces nasty vapors. It's a terrible public health approach to tell kids, "sorry you're lungs are messed up, your parents didn't follow the manual."

Unvented gas heaters are not uncommon in the south, they're only banned in California. The family farmhouse in Tennessee has several. The place smells terrible, I won't visit when it's cold.

Pedaling on an exercise bike for an hour produces about 0.1 kWh electricity. This currently costs about 2 cents. Most people would pay much more than that to avoid doing that much work. Others pay a gym much more than that monthly to output maybe 1 kWh. Since most people born in the past 100 years depends on that much energy costing one cent, and continued existence of a breathable atmosphere depends on it being maybe 5 cents, there will be pain.

Ecosystems produce algae. Fish are part of that. They act to hold fixed nitrogen in one geographic spot, then release in higher tropic levels through spawning and pissing. This feeds algae. Fishing extracts the protein, then the ecosystem collapses, and takes a long time to rebuild on human time scales. Or we could just exponentially increase the number or humans and increase their ecological footprint like youâ(TM)re saying will be totally fine without any consequences.

Only about 20% of patients that require a ventilator will ever become free breathing ever again. About half will die. The rest will be on the ventilator until someone decides they shouldn't be. A massive supply of ventilators won't make much of a difference in this fight.

Only if you have $2 (the cost per ticket) saved for college. If you have $35,000, that buys 17,500 tickets. Now your odds of winning are 1-(174999999/175000000)^17500 = one in 10,000.5 I'm guessing this is of the same order as the number of app startups, or at least the ratio of apps that lead to a 7 figure payout.

Science disagrees that "fructose isn't the problem". Fructose is only metabolized by the liver, and a large percentage ends up as fat. In nature, it's found in small quantities, and usually with large amounts of fiber that slow the digestion. It's alcohol without the buzz. http://www.ucsf.edu/science-cafe/articles/obesity-and-metabolic-syndrome-driven-by-fructose-sugar-diet/ There's also a 90 minute lecture on youtube if you have too much time on your hands. And yes, to first order, table sugar=HFCS

I use a UMA on a BlackBerry on campus and elsewhere. I can log on to networks requiring browser configuration just fine, but only BlackBerries had this option when we got our phones, 18 months ago. My wife and I pay an extra $10 a month on a group plan for unlimited UMA minutes, so we use very few tower minutes. Unfortunately, T-Mobile stopped offering that option to new subscribers.

"But telecoms providers send out millions of automatically-generated bills every month and to expect their never to be a mistake is hopeful to say the least." If that was an intentional mistake, it's brilliant. Unfortunately, it's probably just bad editing.

Exactly what I was thinking, mod this up! Why take a closer look, when we could just look at the light coming from there?

Practical knowledge about manned space flight? That assumes there's anything practical about humans in space. The only reason to have astronauts is PR, a morally dubious risk to human life. When we do return to the moon or go to mars, it should only be after autonomous robots have built us a comfy lab. Until then, investing in technologies to keep our meat alive is a waste of money and an insult to real science.

Actually, you may be more correct than you realized. Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is a great way to get rare earths. Depending on which, you might have to wait a few years for them to cool down though. In the long term, I think they're our best supply, or perhaps asteroids.