I've actually feel that the Kindle is TOO light and thin - and that's a Kindle 2 I'm talking about. I always feel that if I squeeze too hard, it'll snap in half.

@Devin Teague Connelly: As I've said, the Venusian atmosphere is 90x thicker than Earth's. It's surface temperature is higher than any other planets at a warm 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Lead melts on the surface. We haven't been able to get even a probe to survive for more than an hour on the surface. What you just said…

@TheShinyHobbiest: Not really. The transport would be too expensive. Thats like saying "Why don't we just move all the ice in Antarctica to Mars to give it oceans" - it wouldn't be practical. Also, Venus has 9ox more atmosphere than Earth, meaning that even taking enough for Mars Wouldn't make even a dent in Venus'…

@WilliamTheFifth: The atmosphere is more problematic than any of Mars' problems. There is simply no way to get rid of it that has even been thought of, let alone examined and planned. And how do you plan on speeding up the glacially slow rotational period? Like I said, days are longer than years on Venus. On Europa,…

@beamin445: ...A ROGER Sterling? As in Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce?

@MikeK: I think this is the very definition of a "champagne problem".

Haven't these specific images been around for a long time? I've had them saved for over a year now. All this is is background music and a slideshow, no?

@CommentingpointlesslyisMeh: A little. The biggest problems are the lack of a magnetic field and the lack of a thick atmosphere. Temperature comes with the thicker atmosphere.

@WilliamTheFifth: Venus? Seriously, it's 900 degrees down there and the atmosphere is 90 times thicker than ours. There is no way to seal up the extra atmosphere, and even if you could, it would be, in effect, a bigger mars. Plus, Venus rotates backwards VERY slowly. Its year is longer than it's day. As for Europa,…

@mricyfire: I would say that it has to do with geographical continuity, but that doesn't explain Tennessee. It's possible they're only launching in states that have invested in an EV infrastructure. An all electric car isn't much good if you can't charge it on the go.

@dennis636223: I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought that 3G was unavailable, regardless of carrier. I didn't know it was launching on AT&T.

@LeonJoe: Much of our own UV blocking comes from the Ozone Layer. Do you really think that, at least initially, UV-resistant plants could be engineered to build up a Nitrogen-Oxygen atmosphere for other, non mutated Earth life?

@LeonJoe: It can't retain an atmosphere permanently, by which I mean that it would be about 100 million years before it would become a problem.

@dfp3050: Not really. Mars already has a lot of water locked into subterranean aquifers and the Northern ice cap, and plate tectonics are only important when talking about timescales of hundreds of millions of years. The hot (more importantly, spinning molten iron) core provides a magnetic field, which is an…

@ModernBawhair: Yep. Manifest destiny, baby.

@timdawg53: You just basically described a slightly smaller iPad. Seriously, try it out at an Apple store. I read all my books on the Kindle app on my iPad, and it's by far the best experience I've ever had, reading wise.

@dennis636223: But the streak doesn't work. It has no 3G. It's basically a giant dumbphone/media player without 3G. I was looking into it myself, to be honest, but the lack of 3G is a deal killer.

What is the point of spending $500 on this device if it isn't even 3G compatible? Wouldn't that $500 be better used by buying an iPad? Note that it has 4x bigger screen, apparently now for the same price.

@Nintendo Tim: I was thinking more along the lines of trying to do Picard's accent.

@dr01d: Yeah. I get the posts about actual Apple innovations (new iPhone, iPad, iPod, what have you), but these are definitely gratuitous.