You'd almost think they would clean up the asteroid belt, before bothering to mine on Earth.

I'm for it, of course.

Well, pretty much everything that lives in the sea is evolving to take over the sea. Some are just better at it than others.

"One big solar storm could change that for the foreseeable future."

Less likely to kill the kid that way, and thus selected for.

My point would be that people don't have to worry about these things any more than you do most other places, either.

Yeah, mostly looks like it's going between the Hudson and Connecticut river valleys, though that could change. We'll still be under the edge though.

"And they happen here? Yet they never cause any damage, I've never felt one, and nobody here cares or is afraid of them. So basically, they might as well not happen. "

"the ongoing spatial separation between humans and the animals they rely on for food and other forms of agricultural work can make animals seem to be nothing more than utilitarian machines."

Meh.

I voted "Physics", in the sense that entropy is part of physics.

"I live in America on a nice beach area where the sun shines and the water is blue. "

"Are you ready for Hurricane Irene?"

My wife's in energy efficiency and alt-energy. You're looking at about $10,000 just in parts at wholesale, then there's installation.

Generally called a "pitchfork".

Yeah, seriously.

Seems like some of John Brunner's stuff should be here.

While it was probably indeed the most horrifying thing I'll see all day, it wasn't that horrifying.

Those Progress ships have a great record, but every once in a while, rockets tend to fail. Worth a look to see why it went down, but not any sort of crisis.

I've always sort of wanted to read that book, but I can't quite decide whether it sounds great, or it sounds like a big mess of overblown slapstick that only thinks it's great. Someday It'll probably be on a shelf when I can't find anything else, and I'll go for it.