I like e-ink, but have no problems reading on my (retina display) iPad (halfway through War and Peace...). And I can use the iPad to write, make presentations, as GPS, keep track of my trips, I can remote-login to my computer, and... and...

Right - it wouldn't change anything in load distribution. Generally, I think no matter how refined the strappery is designed, or the frame, or no matter how thick the padding is - there is a point during any hike/climb where you curse your backpack...

oh - alone the mention of that movie makes my skin crawl. Incidentally, I'm sitting in a dimly lit room right now, and, heck, isn't that some fog wafting in under the door...

Oh, I can totally relate to mechanically satisfying movements! Remember that lever on a turntable that lifted the arm from a vinyl LP? That resistance when pulling it towards you, and that limp dropping back when releasing it? Or rewinding a tape reel until the end of the tape came out of the reel slot, flapping…

That's not the point - this is about pretending to sing when all that was being done was hiring a good sound engineer...

Going out on a limb here, but this really shouldn't come out of vacation time: It involves fancy technology, LEDs, topless wo.. - oh, scratch that, but, yes, Arduino was mentioned, and a zipper lift. Combine this with solidly researched background information, an illustrative video, and you have a captivating story.…

Yes, and touchscreen laptops are nonsense from an ergonomic standpoint: You have to keep your arm stretched out horizontally in order to do something on the screen. It is fatiguing, and you can do it only so long before you want to rest your arm (and use the touchpad). Touchscreen only makes real sense on tablets, in…

Problem is that almost every kid in this country wants to be a 'movie star', 'sport celebrity', and become 'famous', instead of sitting down and learn the hard stuff. Or so it seems to me.

It must be a DFG chip then. Yes, Distortion Field Generator.

Mars has, as far as I know, a very thin atmosphere, and has winds that stir up dust - that makes the difference.

While that R4 in the picture sure was EMP proof, it rusted away like nothing else. Maybe an EMP would have stopped that process...

Oh, come on, get on your fixie already and bike back to your media consulting office!

It could be worse - they could have made a 'Space Odyssee 2001 Detour'.

Doesn't work - look at China: they will have a huge problem with a skewed age distribution (=aging population) in the next 10-20 years.

To me, the stars in the opening sequence don't look real - their luminance doesn't seem to modulate with the clouds/haze. I'm often wondering how you get those brilliant night sky views in the time lapses - you need to keep the shutter open for quite a while to get a view of the milky way, and then everything else is…

Can you explain? How long is each exposure? I'm always wondering about those impeccable star views in those time lapses, and assume that there's trickery/fakery involved. From my experience, if you want to photograph the night sky, you've got to open the shutter at least 10-30 secs (let's assume ISO 400), but then of…

That filigree red nebula in this myriad of (white) stars - somehow puts it in relation how huge this system is.

I'm surprised you can keep your camera that long in LA.

Au contraire - upforce is what we need!

5 million? 5000 years at max, at least that's what they say over in Indiana!