Cerebral Stasis

Not necessarily. It all depends on what it's made up of. If it's just a simple plastic stubstance, it may be possible to recycle it, and if it has any organic composition (like OLEDs do), it would decompose over time. I don't see how having paper-screens will be any more of a problem than having plain paper; I'm sure they'll burn.

I'm not afraid of most spiders per se, but I don't want them touching me, and if I, for example, get them on a stick and they suddenly start charging my hand, I'm pretty quick to drop the stick.As for most house spiders, I just don't like to have them around (at least not in my room); ditto those big, fat barn spiders.

Unfortunately, it looks like the Playstation 3 won't be offering unified (one fee pays all) multiplayer services, as can be seen in this Ctrl+Alt+Del comic. I must say, if they really decide to go through with that, it will be a very stupid move (even Nintendo is going to use the unified services), and will certainly hurt sales, or at least opinions.

Cars could be made to be outrageously fuel-efficient, but that would hurt fuel companies, and the parts would be expensive, so chances are we'll never see any 1,000-miles-to-the-gallon car on the open market.Around here, they mix ethanol into the gasoline, but so far I haven't come across a station that fills a vehicle with a 100% ethanol fuel.

Another use for this stuff as wallpaper would be to make the interior of your house look like anything (for example, your walls could project images so that it looks like you're in a cabin by a beautiful lake). Maybe pick-your-weather window blinds.It's certainly a gigantic step forward, to put it mildly, but there's still the issue of the processing unit, power, etc. that I'm sure won't be paper-thin.

I've never had a playstation, and thus didn't get a chance to play Metal Gear Solid, but Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory really is a superb game (although it's predecessors aren't near as good; they were all building up to Chaos Theory). I'm most statisfied with how flexible the objectives are. In the first two Splinter Cell games, if you broke an objective such as not to be seen or not to kill, you would instantly lose, while in Chaos Theory, the rules are often much more flexible when it comes to that sort of thing (meaning you can break that objective a few times without losing).

I think that a bigger problem than the ozone is the poisonous smog that fills large cities with lots of gasoline-powered vehicles.

As the name implies, it uses the same basic techniques as an LED, but instead uses organic materials, which means that the screens are much more durable/flexible. I've read about a concept for a computer screen that will be able to roll-up, like a slide projector screen. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, OLEDs actually are brighter than conventional LCD/LED displays, but over time they do begin to become dimmer (as the organics being to "decompose"), but I believe they will last at least 2 years before beginning to dim (maybe longer).

No, the two vehicles would be completely different, and vegetable oil is an organic compound, which means burning it would release CO2; a pollutant. Although it would be a good use of the vegetable oil, it wouldn't be an emission-free substitute for gasoline, and it's not avaliable in a large enough supply to fuel enough cars for it to be a new standard.

I once used to like to pull the legs off of daddy long-legs, but at one point, the little thing managed to turn around and bite me. I was pretty scared, to say the least, since I, too, had heard the myths about them being poisonous and that they supposedly couldn't bite humans. Well, nothing ever came of it, although I don't pull their legs off anyone (ain't I nice?).

ALL birds won't die, and there's pleanty of alternative food sources. Only a few strains of avian influenza are actually harmful to humans, and those strains aren't near as common as the news makes them out to be. Besides, with these fierce countermeasures against the virus, chances are that the cases will be very few, since the avian flu can't be transmitted from one human to another.

It has happened before, and it's simply a form of avian influenza, which has existed for centuries to some degree, but we're just fighting more advanced mutations. Read more here.

I'm sure that all the guys have their belts saying something like "Too much for you!" and all the girls have their belts taunting "You wish!"As was mentioned, it's more or less a pretty useless technology, although the glowing text does look pretty cool.

Of course it's not a CRASH SITE, but it's rumored to be where crashed extra terrestrial vessels are held and studied. Also, according to another conspiracy theory that suggests that we never actually went to the mooon, it is suggested the the original Apollo mission moon sets are stored in the warehouses there.

I don't quite understand the hype of this. From what I've read (in educational news magazines), there have been less than 150 bird flu cases in humans worldwide over the last five years. I would hardly call that a pandemic.

Technically, one does think to exercise; the muscles are just responding to what your brain tells them to do. Even if you wouldn't have to think about your actions in order to get your muscles to perform a certain function, you would still feel the physical strain of the exercise.This "cybernetic" interface chip is an excellent step forward for the impaired, but one must consider the options for misuse, such as someone making themselves into an "indestructable machine", kind of like a RoboCop of sorts. There are, of course, limits to mechanical limbs. In the movies, when someone has a mechanical limb (arm, in this case), they can easily pick up gigantic and heavy objects and fling them as if they were nothing. One must keep in mind that the mechanical arm would still be supported by one's natural bone and muscle structure, so if one tried to pick up something too heavy, chances are they would break a shoulder or shatter their spine. Lugging around a heavy mechanical limb could also have eventual side-effects on the structural system, such as bones becoming shorter due to the extra weight on them.

It would be good if NASA and the Japanese space programs combine; it wouldn't not only have economical advantages, but chances are the joint effort would improve relationships between our two countries, hopefully strengthening the bond (thus helping to avoid wars over future conflicts).

The moon is the closest abundant source of helium 3 that there is (helium 3 can potentially be used in a completely emissions-free fusion reactor).Concerning comments about the moon taking less fuel for spacecraft launches than Earth, although this is true, that 1/6 of Earth's gravity is still a big waste of fuel. More likely is that all large spacecraft will eventually be built and operated only in space (passengers would be taken to the station using a method similar to those used by SpaceShipOne). There has been an idea to make a space station that is in geosynchronous orbit with the Earth and connects to the ground by a powerful cord on which an elevator of sorts would run, completely eliminating the needs for launch fuel.I'm completely for the ideas of grounding the space shuttles; after 20 years, NASA should be able to come up with something a bit better. However, I'm not too anxious concerning their current replacement vehicle ideas; they appear to be small and almost a step backward.I think that space colonization won't really boom until space tourism gets going (thanks to Virgin Galactic, as well as some small hotel company that wants the first space hotel station up and running by 2010).

That's open for debate. Some have said that staring at light backgrounds is like staring into a light source, while dark backgrounds don't bombard your eyes with bright lights. A lot of it is dependant on the color of the text as well; light on light or dark on dark are quite an eye-sore. I've personally always been a fan of dark styles, although light styles can be very nice if done properly.

Time isn't necessarily a static value; it's dependant on perception and doesn't really have a specifically measurable value. We consider time to be the order that certain patterns occur, but it may be much more (or less) than that.And I rather doubt that time travel (at least in the classical science fiction defition) is possible. There are too many strange questions tied to it. Furthermore, if time travel was avaliable, chances are some kind of crazy radical faction would have already destroyed reality as we know it using a time machine.I fail to see how light and time are directly related, save in theoretical concepts, like those mentioned about reaching and passing the speed of light. Save that one may be (or have been) perceptionally based off of the other, there is no direct connection.

Unless I'm mistaken, black holes have never been proven to actually exist; they are thus far merely a theoretical and science fiction concept. Why is it that so many people believe Einstein's theories so whole-heartedly, when there is really no solid evidence to prove that they are anything more than a concept? Google is your friend. Concerning the concepts of high-speed travel in general, I think that there's more merit in the concepts of quantum physics (and the concepts of spacial folding) than in gravitational physics. Especially since so many quantum physics properties have been proven (such as the ability to transfer the properties of one atom to that of another atom using an energy stream).

I'm not too impressed with Vista's looks. It's more or less a basic XP skin with different colors/shapes and some transparent/refractive edges on windows/icons. This means that just being in the desktop enviroment will require quite a bit of RAM and video card power/memory, which are going to be wasted. I use Windows XP Professional with the Windows Classic style, simply because it's easier on the system's resources (which is a good enough reason for me to use it).

Technically, it's not an invention; it is instead a combination of many other innovative inventions. For example, the generator braking and hybrid engine are both seperate inventions, but this may be one of the first cases of them being used in conjunction with each other. Do they really have a choice? Considering how NYC is the largest urban area in the United States, if they didn't use top-of-the-line mass transit technology/services, they would be even smoggier than Los Angeles.