Because the War to Japan was not won by the Bomb. Japanese already lost people by thousands every day. What mattered was the arrival of the soviets on the Japan north coast, threatening them of ending up under Stalin's hand. They preferred the gentler US domination and capitulated for that.

This study relies ridiculously on traditionnal generations. By the time we have enough energy to get there, life will be way longer, there will be cloning, and women will not be needed for bearing children. One may even send just clone embryos of the selected astronauts, plus android robots to raise them upon arrival. Farther, imagine replicating the astronauts brain in an artificial simulation. And I'm jut thinking aloud a couple of minutes, no doubt the future will invent more surprising solutions. I just wish I were there.

If this technology reduces energy storage costs dramatically, renewable energies (solar, wind, etc) would become much more practical because they could be stored, ie, made available on demand instead of when Mother Nature provides them.

They should have gone ARM, really. Non-counting the legal battle they face with Intel for usage of the "86" trademark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_Lafayette

Indeed shutting down an OS is very complicated because you have to clean it up for the next startup. Think e.g. of running apps keeping open handles on network files. Think of tunnels of tunnels over everything. Components have to be shut down in order and the order is not always trivial to find. Then you give some time to apps to clean up their stuff. The whole thing can be a real mess...

What is their process in case an ET impersonates into a human, just for fun ?

Wonderful, one more incentive to fund asteroid mining.

+1. Especially since memory is nearly free these days.

Oracle (ORCL) announces that in order to emphasize the importance of this operation, and better reflect its activities, will switch its stock ticker name to JAVA.