@KamWrex: You are obviously getting all your "knowledge" of Assange from Fox News and Sarah Palin. Quite (not) funny.

Don't blame Panny. Cameron is in full control of this movie, every aspect of it. Moreover, he now holds a bunch of 3D moviemaking patents, which might make the life of other 3D moviemakers more difficult.

@rathat: Now seriously: you can not explain the situation without understanding this:

@Hello Mister Walrus: Or to shatter the glass visor against that black-painted wall. :)

That was some quick, quick response from Neil. Or, maybe from a NASA ghost writer? The manned Moon mission story is hanging on a thin thread.

@Relyt most likely has: Except for: all governments fear the people. Especially the tyrannies.

The summary of his case on Reuters today:

So why do we not see this anywhere through the telescopes?

I assume what Abdullah wanted was RFID. Tiny, hard to find, no batteries. Just need to install those RFID readers everywhere. Oh, wait, they ARE already everywhere: stores, gas stations, government buildings, airports, train stations, toll booths... Or, just give the bad apples free cell phones.

Howard should have never gotten the position to begin with.

@gravityhomer: So you are saying that they had not known about everything burning in pure oxygen prior to this? And the way to tests this was with your top-trained astronauts inside the test tube with no way to open it from inside (even if they had had the time to do so)? And with the supervising technicians and…

Would be interesting to see a story detailing the later tragic events. Too many great people died in the 60s.

Despite what the authorities initially assert, these cases often turn out to have resulted from intentional behavior. Without having more information, I am afraid it is not quite fair to talk about it.

@Magnetism: OK, but aren't you making the same mistake here by mentioning paramecium as a support to your assertion that consciousness arises at the (sub)atomic level? I mean paramecium can process information, computers can process information, so what? What does that have to do with consciousness in either case?

I understand that nobody has to go anywhere from Earth to get Moon rocks. It had been known way before the Moon missions that Moon rocks can be found in Antarctic ice. They are frequently knocked from the Moon surface by asteroids and many of them have made it to Earth.

The idea that Röntgen happened to notice the barium platinocyanide screen misrepresents his investigative powers; he had planned to use the screen in the next step of his experiment and would therefore have made the discovery a few moments later. (Wikipedia)

@Zegridathes: Awesome!

520 days without iPhone update?! Not going.

@aMatic: So where do the "rules to make brain" come from? The brain is so tremendously complex a machine that it can not possibly be assembled properly just by relying on the lego blocks "resulting under certain conditions in a brain". The rules ARE in the DNA and the compiler IS in the DNA, too. But I agree, to…

PZ Myers seems surprisingly ignorant. His argument seems to be that brain is more than just a sum of its building blocks. True. But the genome encodes much more than the structure of the building blocks. It, in fact, DOES encode how they are going to be arranged. Does environment shape it? Yes. But who says it can not…