I'm pretty sure this is a joke.

Uranium from seawater is perfectly reasonable, something people have talked about for decades. Using human poop as a biofuel is equally reasonable.

I just learned that people ingest, on average, one to two micrograms a day of uranium via our food. The 'safe upper limit' is apparently 35ug. That's not much.From 1.5 micrograms of U, you get just over .01ug U-235. When you fission that, you release ~.1% of its rest mass energy. That's ~1000 J, per person, per day- or an eightieth of a watt (thermal). If you had a breeder reactor and could use the U-238 as well, you could up that to 1.5 watts thermal (.5 watts electric).

If you're already bringing a nuclear reactor with you somewhere, an extra few kg for fuel isn't going to be an issue. Even the smallest nuclear reactors mankind has developed have weights measured in tons. The military uses highly enriched fuel compared to civilian reactors (at least in naval reactors). That means 1 kg of fuel could provide 1-10 million kWh of electricity, depending on enrichment and efficiency. Why would anyone, even DARPA, not choose that?

@Oscar G: Yeah, 2900ft is cool, and would have been impossible a century ago, but today it *is* nothing, because we're capable of drilling much, much deeper. 2890ft is an order of magnitude short of reaching "deeper under the earth’s surface than any other drill system in the world." Whataclevernameihave is right.

In continuation of Erikarose85's explanation:

If you omit the middle phrase (allowed because of the second comma), you get "shall continue in force for a period of five years from the date it is made unless and until terminated by one year prior notice in writing by either party"

As in, either party can terminate the contract as long as they give one year's notice.

This is similar to the test many people use for deciding between 'me' and I' in a compound noun phrase. You know it has to be "Jon went to the movie with Molly and me," because if you omit "Molly and," then "Jon went to the movie with I," is clearly wrong.

In case you're wondering, that 4051 decks *with jokers.*

218792/54= 4051.7 or so

Add another ~100 decks for no jokers.

Or of practice. Chimps (in the wild, at least) must follow things quickly with their eyes. Sudden changes are very, very important. Not so much for taking notes in class.

@Annata: Thank you! I was waiting for *someone* to get it right. Only, I would have rephrased "He was aware, as any reasonably intelligent life-form is, that such a thing as a god has never and will never exist, and that the concept is obviously man-made." a bit less smarter-than-thou. Not out of undue respect for religious beliefs, but as a way to keep discourse civil.

The 'morons' thing was right on, though. When you quote a famous philosopher, don't assume well-known phrases mean what they seem to mean at first glance.

"interact with chemistry"

*Shudders at the bad description*

@theindiestonerdude:

First, free will- and with it man's ability to violate god's laws and desires- is central to all the religions of the book. Otherwise, sin is impossible, and man would never have been cast out of the garden. I am in no way religious myself, but anyone who has though about it must realize that if god exists and is good, either there is a limit to his power, or a limit to the ways in which he chooses to use that power.

And second, unlike religion or culture, homosexuality is not a learned thing. Homosexual offspring are the normal result of some fraction of heterosexual unions in any culture, and so there is no need to actively regenerate the homosexual population; it will take care of itself in time. If all the jews were killed, though, it is unlikely that many would convert to judaism thereafter.

Maru would be proud.

@dbsmall:
I have no idea if your information about depression and intelligence is valid, but consider the following.

Do smarter people necessarily think faster thoughts? Maybe they think more deeply, taking time to consider all the implications and weighing all the factors. Maybe they come to better conclusions in the same amount of time, or just can consider more information at once.

First, the title is misleading. It wouldn't be a "Holographic Projection around the Earth." The Earth would be holographic too. Commenter karmazon has the right idea.

Oh, and Melissa- if this is true, you're part of the hologram, too. So when you touch a 3-D desk, the 2-D hologram that you are the projection of is touching the 2-D hologram that the desk is a projection of.

You can't touch a hologram, but one piece of the material the hologram is inscribed on can certainly touch another piece of the same material.

I clearly don't spend enough time outdoors.

I always assumed sunbeams were just a bad rendering effect that showed up in CG and games, not something that showed up in actual photos.

Be careful Hayley!

*Bites fingernails nervously*

@Skipweasel-
I'm not so sure. The shape matters- how tightly the sunlight is being focused.

The total amount of sunlight hitting the leaf is of course constant.

If a small droplet and a large droplet focus light onto the same area, the large one will produce higher temperatures, yes. But it the small droplet focuses the light more tightly, it might generate higher temperatures in a smaller area, and thus start a fire that can spread on its own to the rest of the leaf.

Also, smallerdroplets are more spherical than larger ones (surface tensions vs. gravity), so the lensing properties definitely vary with size.

Perhaps, but microwave + bowl of water + absorption chiller can certainly cool things down. Microwave converts electricity to photons, which heat water, and then hot water powers the absorption chiller.