For some reason, my overly-odd imagination is picturing a "chopped" hurricane with lots of chrome and flames coming out, popping wheelies up & down the Eastern seaboard. :)

There's a marketing opportunity here : To the tune of "Funkytown":

Nanoville.

You, Sir, are correct. The booms. The lovely, lovely BOOMS. :) The idea of the superduperhypercanes being able to switch directions effortlessly due to their jet engine effects was intriguing. Not sure what, if any, resemblance to actual physics that may have.

Heh. Too close to the truth, unfortunately. An unquestioning populace makes for a very manageable and moldable populace.

That is one messed-up book. I liked the initial premise about the accidental release of gigatons of methane from subsea clathrate deposits and how super/hyper hurricanes could form; after that, wow. Very "different" direction, indeed.

It's a real shame that instead of the Internet being used as the most amazing tool for true learning that it should be, it's used to find "facts" that fit whatever prejudice or myopic viewpoint the person needs to validate themselves.

And, so long as the cellphone towers have power.

I'm thinking you are correct. :)

I sit corrected. My Brooklyn Wabbit accent needs work :)

Thank you. :)

Really hoping the computer models are wrong and that it won't take that "Left Toin At Alber-ker-KAY," as that Wascally Wabbit said.

While I agree with you, you're unfortunately wasting your time. No one is going to change their tightly-held opinion on Apple. I've never seen such polarization created by one company. I think that they've actually gone beyond the knee-jerk hatred that Microsoft engendered during the 1990's - no mean trick, that!

Really hope you're just trying for sarcasm/humor. Otherwise ... wow.

I think I might've sprained something in the process, though.

Thank you. That was puntastic! :)

Sounds neat. Wonder if the ceramic material would be altered enough by the radiation to degrade performance, or would the fuel rod be spent long before this became an issue?

If these storms caused "Tremors" in the atmosphere, would they be considered Kelvin Beacons? (ok, ok ... it was a stretch.)

Seems fine here in south-central PA. Comcast (irony alert! Normally we're down if a butterfly sneezes over in China.)

There's no reason whatsoever that a suitably-large gas giant couldn't have a moon that had Earth-level gravity. If the moon had enough density for its size, it would easily be 1 g.