Now we know: deforestation near the equator of the earth is bad (therefore forestation around the equator is good), and forestation around the poles is bad (therefore deforestation around the poles is good). Sounds like we just need to send the loggers from Brazil to Russia! Problem solved!

This was my thought as well (also grew up in PNW, btw). They thought it would take centuries for shrubs to turn to trees? WTF? If the environment is right for it (temperature, water, sunlight, etc.) a forest will grow practically overnight. If they thought it would take centuries for the environment to be right for…

Just curious what is driving your desire. I have a late-'09 2.66Ghz 27" i5 with 8Gb RAM and have found that it still performs amazingly today. I want to upgrade, but I can't find a descent argument to sway my wife...

"physical body is just an environmental interactive suit to experience this duality of existence while here on this dimensional plane"

I'm missing the connection...ancient indians hate television?

The law is very clear on this. You are not allowed to trade on insider information of ANY kind, no matter how you received it. The only legal thing you can do in this situation is keep your mouth shut, report the information to a compliance department (required if you work for a bank, for example), and wait until a…

According to this logic my box of mix tapes from the 80's is worth in the BILLIONS now.

I expected something along the lines of this when I read the title...

I'm not sure about 2-3 years, but it's possible given that FB will be forced to really ramp up the revenue generation (read: in your face advertising). That's exactly what caused a lot of people to jump from MySpace to FB in the first place...MS was becoming increasingly annoying while FB was clean, elegant and…

It's not an exact science...since you have to account for potential growth. How do you value FB's potential growth?

That never mattered, we already use drones to hunt down and kill US citizens overseas...

The single most freaky looking "natural" thing I have ever laid eyes on, was seeing the placenta shortly after my first child's birth. I've never been much for believing in crazy conspiracies, but after that day I will always pay more credence to the idea that we are evolved from aliens. The placenta is THAT weird.

Need I remind you....? I support nekid olympics 100%

The "Deepstaria enigmatica" shown above has not yet been determined to in fact be that type of jellyfish. In fact, it's pretty clear from the video that this is not a jellyfish at all! The other hypothesis is that this is a whale placenta, which frankly kinda does make sense...except for the seemingly physical…

I remember in the 80's how we all used to lament the fact that we only used only a portion of the cattle carcass when processing our meat, compared to the Native Americans who would use something like 95% of a buffalo carcass. Now that we're closer to that 95%, suddenly we're using too much? I guess the Native…

Funny you say that when their biggest growth was from China....

"hot cup of root beer to go with my Froast", you sir just made my day.

From the article you linked: "Here's the important part, though: Steve Jobs wasn't right about everything. He had his fair share of mistakes, including hiring John Sculley to run Apple in the '80s, leading to his ouster. He was originally against third-party apps on the iPhone, and opening it up was one of the…

Amazing! And from a 36 YEAR OLD technology company to boot!

We've been recording weather details for far longer than that (there are weather related records going back thousands of years that detail floods, draughts, etc.), however we've only been ACCURATELY recording weather details (patterns) since the rise of satellite observations - say just a few decades at best.