No need for a flag, it's already the Red Planet.

"To those who point to the few sitcoms that have no laugh track, I've noticed that the music tends to "react" in the right moments and I'm not convinced that's an improvement." I don't remember listening to music in Modern Family, apart from the title sequence and whatever music might come up as part of the story. There might be some at the very end of each episode, but the voice over usually gives some insightful family advice then.

[emphasis mine] Why? (Assuming humanity lives in harmony on Earth for another few million years) It's non-periodic (the 'C' in C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)) comet, so as far as we know, it will be the first and only pass through the inner Solar System.

Not long before Google or Facebook buys them.

Reader was fairly well known and used, despite their claims it had dwindling number of users.

His name is not Steven Hawkings.

I'm a bit late in replying to it, but has anyone banshee yet? http://banshee.fm/about/

How could this be the largest telescope given that the 40m E-ELT was approved last year?

Okay, what I meant was: what has a single quasar got to do with all this? It was not an appropriate image to use in this context.

Come on, UCLan? Really, a quasar is 4 Gly long?

Not that it necessarily validates the finding, but this paper has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal published by the Geological Society of America.

What you're referring to is interferometry. I came across a news in the last few months that someone somewhere making suggestions along similar lines. As has already been said, space-based observation is comparatively costlier both to build (and send it up) and difficult to maintain or upgrade compared to ground-based installations.

Who says Pi or 22/7 don't have an exact values? 22/7 is mileading because it's a rational number while Pi is not.