Close, but not quite. This creates another tier so that Facebook knows which of your 12 million friends are your closest. This is valuable information that they will be able to capitalize on.

I can do morse code at 1Hz, also known as 0.000000000001THz. Look! THz frequencies. 0.85THz is fast, but just because you used THz as the unit of measurement doesn't mean you have accomplished THz speeds.

Triangulation? All of the methods and techniques described above require your frame of reference to change significantly relative to the signal sources.

1 Million robots? No cheap labor? We can do that. Is China finally outgrowing it's limitless supply of cheap labor?

So, I don't get it, is /this/ the end of the world?

Because the laws are horribly ineffective and no one else is both powerful and benevolent?

What would happen if you made everyone feel as happy as the global average? What affect would that have on global policy and philanthropy if acting in the common good was in fact also acting selfishly?

Just send the whole ISS. Most of their experiments don't care where the station is, so long as it is space, and plenty of instruments are already onboard.

Developers: "Yes" Everyone Else: "No"

How about: Awareness of the world makes people more depressed.

That depends on the car, and the worker. Can you imagine UAW workers making a C8 Aileron?

I wonder what happens when you melt graphite under equally high pressures, then cool it in similar conditions...does it become diamond? Where does the crystalline structure come from?