@James Valentine: Image and typing fail! yay!

@blyan-reloaded: I tried a Cardinal, it didn't work so well.

@The Squid: I wouldn't look at it as a factual statement. It seems to me that the author was just emphasizing that the children tested aren't associating the letters shapes with the experiments shapes.

@MrTripps: That's a complete load. I totally saw an armadillo in the stack of turtles through my telescope.

@Scaramanga9: Ok, fine:

@Inphoarius:

@David McCready: My guess is they wouldn't see two events happening at the same time, but rather a bright flash of light as the machine was turned off. So it would probably be possible to tell that an event had been obscured, but seeing what happened exactly would be next to impossible.

@Norbs: I realize that, but the point is moot. The people that aren't going to hack it all, or the people that are going to wait until someone releases easy to install homebrew software are not the people that their tutorial is aimed at. It's aimed at people who want to learn, which makes it far from pointless.

@Norbs: Who cares if it's not the same hack? Adafruit supplied a nice well written tutorial for people to get their feet wet with Kinect. If you want to hack Kinect yourself, you have to start somewhere.

@Chernobyl: My pencil always gets covered up by the invite link... it's much easier to just comment twice.

@HeroOfTomorrow is lonely: 2 reasons I can think:

They're planning to send another in 8 years? Awesome! Go JAXA!

@quillaja: Need to keep your severed head alive? There's an app for that.

@MetalZombie: I would go back until I could ride a dinosaur. Money can't buy that!

@RawVoltage: Kinect is pretty much a extremely nice webcam with some awesome 3d features thrown in, I can think of a dozen things I would like to use that for personally, and not a single "wrong" thing. Care to give an example?

@Norbs: This looks like a promising hack to use Kinect to create a 3d environment quickly. So... wake up?

But what if I DO want to live in a purple-hued world? Are they going to make special glasses for me so I won't see the warm LED glow? I think not!

@Hueynewton: 1. Did you miss the whole thing I said about robots doing the heavy building? And it would be less costly traveling back and forth to the moon than it would be to go to Mars. And I'm not talking about science fiction terraforming of another planet, I'm talking about building an enclosed habitat that…

@Faustroll: True, but on the other hand, Cortez didn't have to deal with thin suits and metal shells being the only thing protecting him from horrifying radioactive, vacuumy death :)

@LittleDragon: There are lots of people who would make excellent astronauts who prefer to spend there time doing stuff instead of in school getting degrees.