So this article is a link to the 15 most overpriced gadgets but has nothing to do with how to fix surface. Why even post it. Lazy journalism.

They probably got paid while in arbitration too.

Meh...atheism. The top three monsters of the last 200 years were dictators of regimes with institutionalized atheism. They probably killed more than all religious extremists of the past 500 years combined. To me this song is one of those things that sounds good on the surface, but if you actually achieved it, would be…

Great explanation and interesting side note on astrophysics. I always wondered what the "spark" was. Would be cool if copper also had excited electron states and emitted photons - we'd have glowing wires. I imagine there could be a book written on why gases have these elevated states and metals don't.

Awesome, great explanation. Interesting that gases don't behave the same as metallic conductors, which apparently don't have excited states when conducting electricity, or at least don't emit photons if they do experience a "relaxed state". Otherwise copper wires would glow.

So the bright branch things in the picture are electrons? By what process do electrons give off photons for these sparks to be seen?

I'll have to say I agree - I think the movie would have been far cooler if they gave young Kirk command of a small ship with a storyline around that. Giving Kirk the Enterprise is like giving command of an aircraft carrier to a special forces guy who kicked major ass on a single mission. Yeah the guys a hero, but in…

Surgeons also use iPods to implant knees and hips http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/04/ipod-used-in-knee-surgery/1747017/

Somewhere (I forget where) I read that Einstein calculated the 6 days of creation as taking 15B years due to the effect of relativity. So somebody travelling at the speed of the universe's expansion would experience 6 days, while someone remaining stationary it would be 15B years.

This is what all humans do in mostly everything. Reason evolved as a post-hoc mechanism to communicate to others and convince others to follow or build a positive reputation. Most of what people think of as their own educated and enlightened opinions, are really only emotions/intuitions that are arrived at almost…

The motorola laptop dock is not only expensive, but it's a dumb idea. You tie up your phone when you use the laptop portion - for anybody who works remotely, this is a deal breaker since you usually talk on the phone while using your laptop for stuff. There's absolutely no purpose to it whatsoever, other than they did…

He took it for two years? Didn't it occur to him or his doctor to, um, STOP taking the drug when he suffered from the side effects?

In unicorn and fairyand, there is an endless pile of money and everybody works for free to provide unlimited services to all. In the real world, however, we have aging demographics, escalating health costs, fierce global competition which drives labor costs down, and a bond market which if rattled, will drive…

It was listed as "D or d" (without the spaces, "Dord"), representing what density would be in an equation.

Increasing taxes on the wealth raises $80B on a $1000B deficit. Not enough. I'll agree on healthcare, but i would adopt German/Swiss health system - 100% privatised health insurance with a mandate for everybody to buy, and subsidies for the poor. Refocus federal spending on investment in the future - increase funding…

I can't believe how uninformed people are in this thread. Like taking money from the military and giving it to NASA will solve the problem. I'll say it again. $1T deficit, meaning we spend $3.6T annually and can only pay for $2.6T. Soaking the rich sounds great until you realize that this raises $80B annually, not…

Sweet! That raises $80B a year on a $1T deficit! Problem solved!

That's great and all, but $1T deficit. All programs are unaffordable at this point. You can take money from the DOD and give it to NASA, but you still have a $1T deficit.

Well, we need far more than a few extra nickels. We need $1T to cover the annual deficit.

Ridiculous. The entire US miliary budget is $800B. Deficit is $1T. What are you going to cut to raise another $250B to cover the rest of the deficit and fund NASA $50B?