I suspected that being 180 degrees out-of-phase might be stable, but obviously there was too much forcing it into sync with the rest.

Polarisation due to reflection is explained by Brewsters Angle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_angle

"parts left over from the ISS"

Ahh. Sorry, comprehension fail. My bad; moving on...

Your Google-fu is not strong.

Is it just the pocket, or is the whole jacket woven with mesh? Because full wire mesh = taser-proof jacket.

No SD slot? No sale.

What they need to do is add a locking rig for the main wheels, and a "flip-down" pair of castors for the front. Then it would be able to convert between snowboard-thing and ordinary(ish) wheelchair.

I think the CFL advertising is going in the wrong direction. Instead of "it's green and efficient", they need to focus on "IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY", because most people don't seem to get that.

He'll need to get INTO orbit first, not the "thrill ride" sub-orbital hop that SpaceShip 2 does.

Technically, you can "see" the big banf everywhere: the cosmic microwave background radiation.

I am a breast washing machine. Unfortunately, I can't convince anyone to use my service...

Even before I found out about Pepper's armour shown above, I thought that it would make a good story. But I thought a blue and silver paint job and the name Platinum would be a better counter-point to red-and-gold and Iron(man)...

IMHO, "organic" has always been about "less bad", more than "more good".

I don't know why they made the "landing airbag" balloons bounce the lander (well, according to all the animations I've seen...). Designing them to "burst" like a high-dive crashpad would be far better.

Some of the sports could be "turned inside out": rather than confine the competitors to disabled only, open them up to all. For example, wheelchair racing; it doesn't matter if your legs work or not, sitting in a chair. It may even be a disadvantage, with the weight of functional legs (vs. the lighter or missing…

I should watch the video, THEN comment...

Actually, the gravity gets LESS as you approach the centre (zero at the exact centre), then increases again as you keep moving towards the other side. The strongest gravitational force on a solid sphere is at the surface; it decreases as you go up OR in.

I thought this was a sci-fi site?

Apparently (didn't pick it myself), the jacket Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is wearing at the end has the same paint-job as NightWing. And his (unused) given name is Robin. Hints of another film?