Comment Re:now the counter argument... ? (Score 2, Informative) 478
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloger's_rule
that's my counter arguement.
Feed Device Uses Solar Energy To Convert Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel (sciencedaily.com)
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated the feasibility of exploiting sunlight to transform a greenhouse gas into a useful product -- fuel.
Submission + - 'Smart Dust' to explore planets
Ollabelle writes: The BBC is reporting how tiny chips with flexible skins could be used to glide through a planet's atmosphere in swarms to gather data and report back.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6566317. stm
Submission + - Top 21 Tech Flops
PetManimal writes: "Whatever happened to Digital Audio Tape? Or Circuit City's DIVX program? Or IBM's PCjr. and the PS/1? Computerworld's list of 21 biggest tech flops is an amusing trip down the memory lane of tech failures. Some are obvious (Apple Newton), while others are obscure (Warner Communications' QUBE). Strangely, Y2K didn't make the list."
Feed A Poison Pen From the RIAA (wired.com)
Submission + - Simple computation using dominos
An anonymous reader writes: When silicon fails to beat Moores law, maybe dominos can help. This guy has created a half adder in dominos as a proof of concept for domino computation. If he intends to make a full domino computer he's going to need an awful lot of dominos...
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