Of the last trilogy (7-8-9, 7 being TFA) and trying to avoid spoiler details. 7 - Fun movie. Too much rehashing of the original plot and ideas instead of an original story. 8 - Disaster. It violated all prior movies in multiple ways. One event in 8 rendered the plot of A New Hope invalid. Worst chase scene - Compare the train scene from Solo to this movie. Etc. Dumb decisions with all major and some minot characters. Some plot twists were good but this was a mess. 9 - Pacing is so frenetic most of it was not fun. Two long movies crammed into the time for one long one. Completely ignored just about every event in 8. More rehashing of the original story bits. Just about zero character development. Too many fake outs in both 8 and 9. Let the theater exhausted and not pumped up and wanting to see it again. JJ and Rian should have nothing to do with further Star Wars movies. They took a series with near universal appeal and wrecked a large chuck of the audience from going back. JJ reportedly could have overridden Rian's decisions in 8 and chose not to. Disney really screwed up this trilogy. They have an entire universe and books to draw on and they botched it. The best new Star Wars shows, Rogue One and The Mandalorian, both are missing key elements of the main series and are still very good. The Mandalorian is also much better Star Wars show than the last two movies. Disney seems to be missing a Star Wars leader to complete Feige and delivery some compelling movies that are not hung up on five characters from the original trilogy.

> Relying on Trade Secrets for this kind of invention is the #1 indicator of fraud. A proper patent would make him rich beyond his imagination. A Trade Secret is only good for fleecing investors. Spot on. This is why I like slashdot. A lot of people have been ignoring this point. Rossi does not appear to have a sustainable business model. Once a trade secret is found out (and it will be eventually), it is fair game for everyone. The lack of visibility into what material he is using also prevents any true independent verification. The only one benefiting from that speculation now is Rossi.

General humanoid robots in mass production are going to happen; it's just a matter of when and there will be ridiculous prices for the first ones that work. This should happen in less than 40 years and I'm hoping much sooner. The iRobot CEO seems to think specialized robots are going to be the norm.

You should not separate the tech from it's intentions. This rover wasn't sent up for the sake of tech, it was sent up because this is a step towards China's own national presence off planet.

I have read through both responses and there is no way identify what data is good or bad. For example Musk claims the battery was not fully charged, but the reporter mentioned "Charge complete". Both could be correct in this case. For the speed there could be a disparity between the driver reported speed and what Tesla's system is reporting. That the reporter called Tesla multiple times asking for advice is something Musk ignores while he makes the case for what happened with the data logs. I don't see any reporter taking out another Tesla though without their own recording equipment.

Do not look at electron as a sphere. Size and dimensions are reported as the maximum values we can observe. No one has measured a minimum size. All this study stays is that it is very spherically symmetric. The measured size is inconceivably small. It may measurably only be a point. That said, I think the data conclusively shows free electrons are actually gigantic in size. It is like a wave on a pond, only the wave condenses to an end state. The double slit experiment is one example of this. Similar behavior exists in atoms. Electrons are not little balls moving around a nucleus, when they join an atom something new is formed that is best described as waves.

Negroponte was pushing the notion a $100 laptop for kids despite feedback the cost structure did not support the price. His comment was to the effect the volume would drive the price $100, and that indicated a clear lack of understanding of the cost problem as it relates to components and manufacturing. This still looks like a bunch of hype to drive money in their labs. If he pushed for driving the cost of tablets down vs this OLPC/XO thing I would have more respect for him, because that's the real way to enable low cost kid-tops.