And, per Dr. Eric Christian, a Voyager Program scientist at NASA, there are three reasons: higher launch velocity (Titan-Centaur over Atlas-Centaur), closer gravitational assists at Jupiter and Saturn, and a straighter path out of the solar system.

Per Wikipedia, as of 2/8/2012, Voyager 1 is 120.1 AU away from Earth. Pioneer 10 and 11, both of which have gone dark in 2003 and 1995 respectively, are estimated to be 105.2 AU and 85.0 AU away. Voyager 1 is expected to enter heliopause in 2015.

Correlation and causation, sitting in a tree...

The Red Green Show!

That Mordin is delightful.

Martin Prince: As your president, I would demand a science-fiction library, featuring an ABC of the genre. Asimov, Bester, Clarke.

Actually, they are preeminent philosophers.

Severed Dreams, actually. But wow, was that a great episode or what?

Thanks for your work on this!

Indeed. Thanks.

I'm in no position to argue for "Fake v. Not-fake," but that list seems tailor-made to piss people off. At first blush, it appears incredibly trite and derivative, with more bullet-points noting what you can't do than what you can.

So... how is TERA? I'm not fain to lay out for another monthly subscription-based MMORPG, and GWII is around some corner, if not around THE corner, but I do like the idea of some sort of skill beyond aptitude with the number bar being a requirement in an online RPG.

First off, there are in fact some physical withdrawal symptoms with THC, namely elevated blood pressure. THC is a vasodilator and cessation of heavy cannabis use has been linked to prolonged, if temporary, increases in systolic and diastolic pressures during the initial withdrawal period.

There is a difference between substance dependence and physiological dependence. Cannabis may not evoke the same, if any, withdrawal symptoms as, say, alcohol, but it can be just as addictive from a psychological perspective.

Fascinating, but there is still a heap of work to be done on that polymerase's replication fidelity. Even without proofreading or mismatch repair enzymes, human polymerases get about 99.999% fidelity and some bacterial polymerases actually take that error rate down to one in a billion. With those adjunct enzymes,…

I'll look into this. By actual gameplay, however, I didn't mean new quests/missions or whatever. It is simply that some of the graphics mods are so GPU intensive that only casual driving can be done, even for people with Deus Ex Machina-class computers. I'd like to use a graphics mod, but I also want to be able to…

So, I downloaded Grand Theft Auto 4 to replay and I'd like to try it this time with a few mods. I've got a fairly powerful PC, nothing absurd, and I would prefer mods that allow for actual gameplay rather than simply good screenshots. That isn't to say I'm against graphical upgrade mods, quite the opposite really,…

If the future is F.I.S.T.O., well... I'm not interested.

I wasn't suggesting that it was. I was merely noting that there is some, however slight, correlation between traditional herbal cures and viable pharmaceuticals. I have no idea if the typical "traditional medicine" treatment regimen outlined for malaria using Artemisia annua would actually work. The fact that it WAS…

Indeed.