IANAL

Well, I suppose the government paid for the building, the test tubes, and the salary of the researchers so i guess they own the results.....on my behalf.

Maybe my tax dollars might save some lives.
And maybe we'll see the words 'government' and 'intellectual' in the same sentence more often.
Here's hoping.

No...no...The Guess Who
You know, that band who were also from Winnipeg.
Ahhh... the 70's.
(American Woman etc.)

Might have to click a button further down the list on the Slashdot 'Toy Collection' Poll.

Mail and telephone calls from off shore are also external communications.
What's their status?

Somewhat related to what your asking.
A ten part series on how some present day tech got here.
The shows don't delve deeply in to how it all works, but interesting none the less.
It may spark an interest in older technology.
Many things that were once only available in a lab I can now recreate in my garage.

A week off beats 'em both by a parsec.

We should find out what percentage of the population thinks that this is a good idea....

And for about 8 more dollars, they could attach a big funnel and bucket for those days when it rains and the solar part doesn't work so well.

I guess that would make it about 5 'Big Ben clock towers' long.

A minute or two on Wikipedia says that this would be the largest plant gemome.

It lists the largest genome as that of Polychaos dubium ("Amoeba" dubia) with 670,000,000,000 pairs.

IANAG

Why such odd units as a persons height? And it's variable.

Why not use a standard like Libraries of Congress?

The three buildings that make up the library total about 1500 feet in length. That time 15000 comes to about 4261 miles. A nice number of miles to be away from your birthplace...

Lots of good suggestions and this may be a dupe.

One thing I did with my kids was to get a cash register roll of paper and a measuring tape and make a scale model of the solar system.
This could be done in the gym on a cloudy day. You could also put on the asteroid belt and the diameter of some of the largest stars.
Include the extremes of Pluto's orbit.
Gives a fair idea of the distances involved.

As for viewing, are there any nice comets visible?

Seems to me SPARC is playing CRAPS with any good will they have left.

Just like 7-Eleven, it never closes....

(and at 4 am it's full of Zombies!)