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My vote is for: WB8 is even more fully under construction, and even more progress made on theoretical modeling of the Polywell. Two more physicist jobs created or saved. However, primary focus has been relocation of personnel and chamber.

i didn't say that it was at all practical. i was just giving an example of an ethical conundrum that might be introduced, to demonstrate that it does introduce non-trivial questions. I appreciate that the possibility of human cloning raises numerous ethical questions. What I fail to appreciate is w...

GIThruster wrote:If you didn't end up siding with the natives, you have serious moral incapacity and should not be allowed around animals, small children, or weapons of any kind.

Ewoks vs. stormtroopers. Gungans vs. battle droids. *yawn*

The next quarterly report is supposed to be posted on Recovery.gov on January 30, 2011.

i remember seeing a joke somewhre about the use of the word "sufficently" in contexts such as those. "..given a sufficently large..." "given sufficiently advanced technology...." "if you let it sit for a sufficent amount of time...." i regret that my memory does not serve me well enough here to rem...

I am attempting to understand that your argument is that despite being a full American citizen from birth, Obama's father not being an American citizen still disqualifies him from Natural Born Status as it applies to his Presidential candidacy? That's about the size of it, yes. :P The argument is t...

What's all this talk about the Wright brothers? I thought everybody would understand I was referring to Samuel Langley.

Skipjack wrote:But if you think that Fox news is unbiased, who the hell is biased then?

I think you've got the question backwards.

chrismb wrote:...come on guys... there must be something more significant than that you've invented!?!?

The airplane, perhaps?

TallDave wrote:Also, is EMC2 exclusive to the property? Maybe the tank is unrelated.

EMC2 is in suite #4. I assume pbreed knows which one that is.

I think the F-22s would manage to scramble before the enemy aircraft caught them on the ground. So no, not quite the same situation. On the other hand, I do agree with one point: at some point in the not too distant future (but not now), the F-22 will be as obsolescent as the P-26 was in 1941. The P...

Whoa, for a moment there I thought EMC2 had finally located their 2nd quarter report, which presumably got misplaced during the move. 3rd quarter report? Sorry, old news.

Of course, none of these pronunciations are "official", so far as I know, but you might as well pronounce them how you think they ought to be pronounced until you hear differently—from the horse's mouth. Just to add to my etymologies, Nebel is also German, and means "mist" or "fog". I suppose it cou...

rjaypeters wrote:This is the problem of having a really good visual memory, but not such a good one for internet locations. I thought I saw it on the EMC2 website, but a quick check shows nothing like I remember.

Were you thinking of this, perhaps?

That would be the English spelling of the word. The American spelling of which is "hawk".

Bussard is a German word, by the way. In modern French the word is buse. However, the French also have busard, which means "harrier".