Gary Johnson is already on the ballot in every state. The Libertarian Party earned national ballot access in the 90s.

Amazing book that can have a dramatic effect on the way you view life. Reading it requires patience as you will only be able to consume so much of it in one sitting, but it is very thought provoking. A must read for anyone before they venture out into the world. I can't remember how many copies of this book I've given out to people.

Anyone notice the fact that it is post dated for 12-24-13? Hope this doesn't turn out to be a hoax.

The article brought to mind the work of David Bohm and the holographic nature of thought. If you extend this holographic model to nature as a whole, that would account for space-time being an emergent effect as our minds decode these holographic frameworks.

What I'm curious about is how much they're going to have to play with the atmosphere scrubbers to provide a consistent level of CO2 for the plants to metabolize. Too little CO2 and the plants grow slowly or stunted, too much CO2 and the astronauts suffer. Finding that happy medium is going to be critical for any long-term orbital farming.

This is surprising? Gallagher informed everyone in the '80s that Delta was an acronym. "Don't even let them aboard!"

The article mentioned changes to the EULA and its format. I wonder if this means we can finally use windows to run weapons systems now.

So in 20 years even American babies will be made in China.

Ballmer Pinatas? If so, count me in.

I can't argue with anything you've pointed out and agree that the odds of a black hole with the mass of our sun ever reaching IMBH status,or even existing, is slim to none. I think the main issue I have is the broad definition of an IMBH itself. It is widely accepted that in order for a star to achieve a black hole state it must have a mass greater that three times the mass of Sol after any main sequence loss. Right there you're more than 25% to the minimum mass for an IMBH. If the IMBH tag is simply a measure of the mass of the black hole, then Cygnus X-1 weighing in at roughly 15 solar masses fits the bill nicely. As a bonus, it is already in the process of devouring its orbiting blue supergiant and being only 6100ly away it seems like a far more likely target for studying black hole growth mechanics.

"The very existence of intermediate black holes is in dispute..." By definition, An Intermediate-mass black hole is a black hole whose mass is significantly more than stellar black holes (ten times to several tens of times the mass of the Sun) yet far less than supermassive black holes (one million to many million times the mass of the Sun). A healthy dose of common sense and a basic understanding of gravity makes it pretty clear that any stellar black hole has the potential to become an IMBH. I appreciate the efforts to find existing IMBHs but to dispute the potential for their existence is ridiculous.

I remember reading a while back about a Naval research program looking into creating a vacuum bubble in front of torpedoes to increase speed, accuracy, and reduce drag. Makes me wonder if that same research couldn't be adapted with this to make the project even more feasible.

I find it amusing and depressing that modern medical science has fallen so far. Everything that is known by modern medicine owes its beginnings in ancient medical practices such as Chinese medicine and homeopathy. A perfect example of this is aspirin. Hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago, the medical minds of the day would give their patients tea brewed from willow bark to ease their pain. Where is aspirin found in nature? Willow bark. Natural cures and remedies are available for most ailments, but modern medicine has dismissed the natural treatments in favor of synthetic solutions. These same synthetic solutions have lead to the rise of super-germs and man-made diseases Mother Nature would have nightmares about.

Justin Cord from "The Unincorporated Man" has a net worth surpassing that entire list combined. That writer for Forbes seriously needs to get out more, or at least read better material.

This was a truly awesome game back in the C64 days and nothing since has come close in style or design. You purchased and trained your own monster for an arena combat circuit. The more you won, the more you could mutate your monster to give it new abilities.