I don't know about this. My kids loved backyardigans and dora...up until they got there first taste of Star Wars, GI Joe, and Transformers. They LOVE those shows. They talk about them so much that I have implemented bans on those discussions. Maybe I'm just raising a couple of psychopaths.

Look, I understand that choosing between a career and a family is hard. However, if you can only put in 20 hours but there's a man that can put in 60, well the man is going to get the promotions. It would be the same if the 60 hour person was a dedicated female.

Actually the sound barrier was thought to be proven by theory. I can't remember exactly (it was in my first aero class like 17 years ago). Anyway, according to the equations, drag approached infinity the closer you got to Mach 1, which would make breaking the sound barrier impossible.

SpaceX will probably be launching Americans into space by 2013-2014. There aren't a lot of manned missions to the ISS between now and then.

Thank God for this article...and anonymous internet logins. I've suffered this same problem too. In high school I was nicknamed Oak Tree...and was constantly teased about that. It's absurd thinking about it now. How could that have been a source of shame? How could I not spin that to my benefit and pull in all…

Wouldn't the minute loss of momentum from the outside star happen gradually, causing the orbit of the inner planet to also decay gradually? As a result, wouldn't the planet stabilize in an lower orbit that was outside the gravitational influence of the outside planet, but that retained enough of its orginal momentum…

Use of Weapons was never boring, but I thought the big reveal at the end was weak. Maybe it's because of a decade of Fight Club, Sixth Sense, Shutter Island, and others, but I just felt the payoff wasn't dearly worth the build-up.

You can't bring nukes into space. There are no bans on conventional weapons. Also, anyone that can orbit a satellite and who has a nuke can execute a High atmosphere Electro-Magnetic Pulse (HEMP) and take out a lot of satellites. There's a lot of countries with that capability.

I think I understand the time loop, and I didn't see anyone else with the same idea...so here it goes.

That's how I felt about Cassini and Galileo when they launched. Weird how fast time flies. Heck, even New Horizons is only about 4 years away now.

What would you have noticed? The 12 terrorists weren't even in the same state let alone terminal.

The new Tomb Raider game is rebooting the character. The concept art has a much less well-endowed Lara.

Tomb Raider Legend was a critical and financial hit. Anniversary was a re-do of the the original with better graphics and a story engineered to fit the Legend continuity. Critical hit and pretty good financially. The last one was Underworld. While it wasn't a flop, it did underperform.

The best intelligence is probably the data on the financial networks. That intel is not as time dependent, and if the U.S. can shut them down, it could cripple Al Queda more than capturing a few terrorists.

There was a Discover article a long time ago about researchers using software to mimic life and reproduction. They found that asexual reproduction was much more efficient. However, the simulated life was much worse at surviving traumatic environmental changes. Things can go more wrong during sexual reproduction and…

There was a Discover article a long time ago about researchers using software to mimic life and reproduction. They found that asexual reproduction was much more efficient. However, the simulated life was much worse at surviving traumatic environmental changes. Things can go more wrong during sexual reproduction and…

You guys are just not getting it. READ the entire article. Custodians and Kitchen staff GET red badges and HAVE access to the perks. The book scanners get yellow badges and are prohibited from the googleplex.

My aha moment was when I went to buy the soundtrack for the Matrix. It was $25. The DVD was $14. The soundtrack and DVD of Grosse Pointe Blank had similiar price points.

DU rounds were used in a lot of guns in the armed forces. I know the AF used them in the A-10's gun and the Navy used them in the CIWS. I personally handled rounds from both. However, the Navy has done away with DU. That's worrying for me since the Navy isn't exactly at the forefront of personal protection. Makes…

NASA isn't giving up on manned space flight. They will concentrate on the high risk / high reward missions like Mars and beyond and outsource Low Earth Orbit operations. SpaceX and others are geared to take on this role in the near future, maybe even as early as 2013-2014.