@Angry_Pig: the whole very substantial initial cost is what would prevent this from happening. Congress is already skittish at spending money on projects that won't see fruition until after their term is up, let alone spending huge sums of money on very long term projects. All Congress really cares about is making…

@Mobius Pizza: he could've also been referring to the actions of Newtonian vs Non-newtonian fluids, as this does seem more like a reaction you would expect from non-newtonian fluids.

@linux_is_better: rofl. and i usually dislike Apple's products and business model (no joke). I actually think that reliability would be a far bigger plus than having somewhat older tech.

I wonder what the top 500 passwords used on Gawker media websites are? I for one, have checked, and my email was not among the breached accounts (woot!), and I am very curious to know id it was random chance, or the fact that my (old) password as the serial number off a dollar bill (a 10 digit alpha-numeric code). I…

@Gordonium has W blue sky lives: your parents doing it?

@ShinobiRAGE: what do you mean when you say it should bounce as said in one of newton's laws? Which law are you referring to?

@Onizuka-GTO: actually the spring legs, do a very good job mimicking the actions of the human ankle/toe combination. any professional level runner who has an artificial limb has the same design for their prosthetics.

@Angry_Pig: another really big factor is the fact that all the control programs are known to work on XP, and they would have to rewrite everything to make it run at the same level of reliability in a linux distro.

@linux_is_better: pretty sure Jobs would be willing to throw the US Army a copy of the source for enough money. Also, one thing about Apple is they almost never take risks with new technology. Even their "new" technologies like facetime and airplay are just modifications of network protocols on already established…

@Angry_Pig: while the government does contribute heavily to the Linux kernel (many of the security technologies were implemented by the NSA), it is far cheaper to use a consumer os that works on nearly all the hardware out there, almost every new recruit is comfortable with operation of the interface, they don't need…

@PotatoHammock: the article says the army wants to do this. It would be kind of pointless for the navy or air force to do this because they are pretty much always within some bastion of technology, or out of range of any cellular signal. I mean how often do you have to go out on perimeter patrol on an air craft…

@Stem_Sell: oh you mr. silly :P

@ColbertForPrez: there already is a facebook application for finding out how far removed you can get from any of your friends. its kind of lame because not that many people actually use it

@Go Vols!: flip flops ftw?

@subtlescalpel ▚▛▜▝▟▚: actually that's the point. but making it super thin (i.e. potentially thinner than the mm wavelength technology could detect) it will simply be passed of as part of your stomach, but still hold a deal level of explosive. And yes thatis more crepe-like than pancake-like. mmmmmmm crepes!

@james-42: They may have had guns, but at least they couldn't hurt anyone :-P

@Blackright: I like this guy's explination (and multiple examples) for a potential construction method for Stonehenge. [www.theforgottentechnology.com]

@aquaclear: if we don't come up with different theories, we may never be able to recognize if we have actually found evidence of the construction method or not.

@Agrippa: it was just super approximate time frame

This would be far more informative if Google gave us a time frame on which they see this happening. 5-10 years - fat chance, 10-20 years - maybe (depends on the state of net neutrality), 20-50 years - very likely, 50-100 years - almost guaranteed. That is my opinion. It also depends greatly on the evolution of mobile…