@mrm: Heh, your avatar is a coffee cup but it has vanilla latte inside. Now that's ironic.

@Guard: because apple is all about open standards. You cant have flash support only open HTML.. and 10,000 apps because apps are open and flash isnt. Or something...

So the people that answer the surveys that marketing departments use to support decisions like 'new coke' are a bunch of self selecting mutants?

@Michael Borders: It's kind of sad that you're associating the word civilised with the kind of over the top oppressive "security" that has become the norm in the US and many other places.

@goodbyebluesky: I was thinking glass and imagining little tiny glass bottles.

@cowboybebopfan: Three points

@cowboybebopfan: 'Public' means he probably broke no privacy laws. That doesn't mean a sufficiently motivated DA couldn't find something to bust him on. Not that I would know.

Apparently Gizmodians are passionate about beer and toilets. Who'da thunk it?

@Christian Lindfors: No, my future has implanted lazer projectors that insert the image directly on the retina. Touch? What's that? Natural gestures dont need no damn screen!

Nah, I'll stick with gas. Sure it's primitive compared to this but, so is my repertoire. And there's something about cooking with fire that is just more satisfying.

@madra: I was going to say should the question be: what do you think the most important tech invention of the 21st century will be? We've barely started this century, but its going to be fantastic.

@toxic: I wouldn't want to play down the awesomeness that the internet has become, but it is a 20th Century invention. [en.wikipedia.org]

"whether oxygen levels were increasing or reducing in a given time period"

@allium: Yep this is all we need. Science giving crackpots the ability to validate their faith that the world is 7000 years old just like it says in the bible.

@whormongr: After changing the constitution to stay beyond the second term he'd make an excellent alternative history villain...

@brother.shrike: I would guess that they're using a salt of potassium rather than the pure metal. Still couldnt tell you what it's for unless you want to take the soup jokes seriously.

@Rimon: I'm pretty sure it is inside earth. You may be thinking of the Lagrange point between the earth and the moon.

@Xyberfaust: do they have ships without atmosphere? Wouldnt it be hard to breathe?

@The Lab: Sure, but the Heineken? Nooooooo!!!

I'm sure that there is all sorts of debris and junk floating around in near enough orbit for this, but most satellites clear the atmosphere by far too much for this to seem practical. Anything near enough to atmosphere for this is near enough for the atmosphere to slow it down eventually anyway.