The great thing about blocking out the sun with a giant orbital shade is that if it doesn't work, you can just move the shade out of the way.

We are barely even using 16% of the energy available to just one Earth, the idea that we'll need two in the near future is patently ridiculous.

I've seen meat get 'mummified' as described indoors before, even in humid climates.

GM already qualified the 230mpg number into meaninglessness just days after they offered it (And y'all reported it as part of a feature only three days after the original claim was made), and anyone with half a brain already knew the volt was 'only a very advanced hybrid' given the whole 'it has a gasoline engine in…

any word on being able to use flash drives and internal MUs for cacheing so we can play Coop Reach on our 4gb 360s?

#corrections Hydrophia seems to be a game with so much promise

I have to say, even after having looked at all the options available on other networks, my HTC Aria is still just the phone for me, it comes in at the right size, the right price, and all the android goodness I need.

@VoltCruelerz: Mass-Energy equivalency current sets the 'best possible case' for generating anti-matter, and that's what I used to get the numbers above (E=mc^2, or 1kg of anti-matter is equivalent to ~9x10^16 joules, roughly the energy consumption of the entire planet for a month) however, the second law of…

@GeneralBattuta: There's no hardware problems, the 4gb internal MU is plenty space to cache the needed data, and now that microsoft supports external flash drives, it's really a no brainer, I can already install games to my flashdrive and get similar performance to an internal hdd, so it isn't a hardware issue.

"The most pressing of those Halo: Reach updates" is the ability for people with memory units to be able to play Co-op and firefight matchmaking right?

@ltwass: sometimes I get excited about interstellar travel.

@Chip Overclock: I had a similar experience with my brother and the Sprawl trilogy, we both read it in a different order the first time and we have vastly different ideas about the importance of different events and characters as a result, it's an interesting phenomena.

@MetalEdgeEd: Really? I enjoyed Count Zero at least as much as Neuromancer, and it's my brother's definite favorite from the sprawl trilogy.

@geuis.teses: You can read all of Gibson's trilogies in different orders and still 'get' it and come away with different but valid ideas. After reading the Sprawl trilogy, I got my brother to read it in reverse order and we had some pretty interesting discussions as a result.

Let's look at the score:

@chadbeckwith: You should look at the cost of some of these rare earth elements sometime, many cost way more per kg than a trip to the moon.

undifferentiated asteroids would probably be a better choice for mining than the moon. rare earth elements would likely be relatively more abundant in such object than in the lunar crust and many potentially mineral-rich asteroids are in near-earth orbits that are actually cheaper and easier to reach than the moon.

@J_Frank_Parnell: I'm skeptical about the prices of rare-earth elements somehow skyrocketing more from extra-planetary mining (remember, Earth-based mining is already corporate, for profit and highly exploitive of labor) than from depletion.

Hmm, my old laptop seems to have been under this, but when I first heard of the problem I got the extended warranty and when it did crash and burn, I got a free upgrade

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: Israel has more motive than any other suspect. Heck, they've even carried out airstrikes against suspected nuclear programs in that part of the world, there's really no reason to believe it /isn't/ Israel behind this virus.