In what way is using postgres for this an overkill?

Possibly. We already know there's a lot of processing going on on the retina and in the optic nerve, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's even more complex than we thought.

I don't think that's a valid conclusion. Both hemispheres get images from both eyes: the left hemisphere gets the right half of your view (from both eyes), the right hemisphere gets the left half. You're experience might instead suggest that object identification takes place before the signal from each eye reaches the brain, at least in part.

If only this was in the summary.

No. No, he didn't. People attack him for that, but that's simply not what he wrote.

"the vehicle is simply testing technologies on orbit" -- why is it so secret, then?

This seems like very good news, to me. They can now finally try methods that address the source of the problem (posture-related pressure changes), just like they do for microgravity bone loss.

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.