The consensus pretty much with Inca quipus is that it was not "writing" in any sense of the word. They were probably mnemonic devices that would assist a knowledgable "reader" to recite what's in his/her memory; hence, it is thought that we will never be able to "decipher" it.

Well, it's going to add about as many lines on the map as any other year... just hope few of them hit land.

And to that I would say that as an "App Icon" this is better than the sunflower.

Yeah, they should change it back to the sunflower icon because that was so much more descriptive!

I meant to say, the doppler effect doesn't affect the "speed of light". You get shifts in the spectrum, but the speed of light doesn't become slower/faster when emitted from a moving body. At least that's what I understand. So even if the universe did expand faster than c at times, it still doesn't quite answer my…

They say that the most distant quasars are 13 billion light-years away, and so it took the emitted light from it 13 billion years to reach us. However, 13 billion years ago, the universe was presumably only 770 million years old, so assuming the expansion rate of the universe @ the speed of light, it was only 770…

No, it's bullshit because rational and real numbers are concepts you learn in high school. So if you don't get this, you either didn't go to high school, or were a highschool dropout :P

I'm very disappointed the list didn't include Meghalaya's "Living Bridges".

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One week after I bought an iPhone 4S, I went into the ocean with it in my swim pants' pocket.

Good point about the Hubble, actually :) The Nokia, not so much. Again, I won't disagree that the Nokia 808 has a great camera and takes better photographs than the iPhone. So does any compact digital that costs more than $100. That's not the point. It's the impact of the iPhone + Instagram (and variants, like…

OK, I get it, iPhone/Apple haterz. But just, try to think objectively for one nanosecond, once in a lifetime and THINK. What's the biggest current trend ("fad" if you need to call it that) currently in photography? Hint: it has the elements Insta and Gram in it. Now, which phone put that thing on the map? This…

That's because Mamoru Oshii is more than a bit crazy about his backdrops; GitS was just a culmination of his obsession; you can see similar attitudes to backdrops in his works going back to Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer.

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Probably timed it so that it'll record for 1 minute, then sleep for 15 minutes, repeat cycle, something like that. Or maybe there was some motion/sound triggering mechanism built in so that it won't record that 10 hour flight in complete darkness inside the FedEx plane cargo bay.

It's very enlightening to read all the comments from the knowledgable readers, pointing out issues that I'm sure the researchers at Delft University have never even contemplated.

’Course, if it didn't fall to the ground, 'taint a meteorITE, just a meteor.