I'm reasonably sure there are several people who have had this information for about a year now.

Advertising your a$$ puts you on a whole other career path.

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

Not nearly enough people are voicing their appreciation of that brilliant quip.

Key lime pie should never be green! Made properly it is yellow.

Is it a nitpick? The headline claims that she is going to be monogamous (which is not mentioned here) and that is used to counter her earlier labeling of being some sort of slut (which I do not believe she is.)

In really shitty marriages and in very happy poly/mongamish marriages.

This knight might change your mind...

Married != Monogamy

Hey, first I'm not trying to frustrate you, but I am trying to ask some questions that have not been really cleared up yet. I think in the rush to look forward and do cool space stuff, people are forgetting some real important questions that should at least be on the table.

I think the simulations are pretty accurate - once the cable breaks, it's going to start falling. And how it falls onto a spinning earth will be very interesting (for those not in the cable's path).

> It's not as if they are going to be mining enough of it to cause the price to plumet by 50%

"Getting things down from orbit is not all that hard, a simple retro-rocket on a capsule that can withstand re-entry."

You may be right in beating up my phrasing as economics is not my strong suit. However it seems that if something is expensive because it is rare, making it more common (discovery, making more, whatever) reduces the its value.

> They want to reduce the rarity of these metals to increase their availability for use in various technologies

1) The total amount of recovered gold on Earth would fill a cube 30 yards on a side. If they introduce a few hundred more cubic yards of gold into the market, they lower the total value of the metal. The more efficient and quicker they work to bring more of these precious metals, the less precious they become so the…

I dug into those footnotes which seemed to be more of a blog posts ([fookembug.wordpress.com]) and eventually found these meta reports:

> Deaf people do not purposely make themselves that way and generally pay more attention to their surroundings (mirrors, other traffic, etc.) to make up for it.

This isn't science, this is business.

Right now half of Americans want the US to bomb Iran on based on just the possibility that they may be working towards nuclear weapons.