Well, it's actually the added stress from the Sun's alignment with Earth and Moon that's likely to play the major role here. The Moon itself doesn't do anything special during the full and new moons.

Wrong. I am an advanced user an I *love* the UI of google spreadsheets. Sure, I'm not a fan of web-based apps in general, and a lot of the usual drawbacks apply here too, but man, the UI is so much better that I don't care that it wastes so much RAM and is slow as hell. It's still a pleasure to work with, which I could never say about Excel or OO Calc.

I wish I had mod points. Every fucking week there's several stories like this. A headline that seems interesting, only to find out it's on Forbes and written by that StartsWithABang idiot. Slashdot, stop wasting my time with this shit!

I don't think he's in the position to confirm anything...

what's worse, it's a blog by this story's submitter.

Um. Does anyone have a non-forbes link?

You know, governments *want* brilliant people to take advantages of their subsidies. That's the only reason those subsidies exist, actually: to steer economic potential the way the governments want to. I fail to see what's wrong with Musk taking part in that.

microRNA is a different beast from mRNA, though. mRNA stands for messenger RNA, the RNA molecule that transports the genetic information transcripted from the DNA in the nucleus to the ribosomes outside of the nucleus, for translation into proteins. Micro RNA, on the other hand, are short strands of RNA that attach to a "fitting" spot on a messenger RNA and thus affect its function in various ways.

Nope. You cannot achieve orbit without a second burn/speed change outside the earth's atmosphere. (Yes, I know, *whoosh* and so on...)

Well, for one thing, electron microscopy is a destructive process, so if you actually want your sample back, you will likely use light microscopy. Also, electron microscopy cannot capture a moving thing (a living cell, for example), as it takes a lot of time and goes "pixel by pixel", instead of capturing a whole frame at once. I'm sure there are a lot of other reasons why light microscopy could be far more practical.

They did, in my country. And our destiny as a nation became tied to the whims of a handful of super-powerful idle parasites.

That could prove to be even more complicated.

The goal stays the same: validate or disprove predictions of physics at energy levels never before achieved.