It looks like a bad wardrobe decision for a sci-fi dictatorship in a sci-fi channel original movie. Someone photoshop Bruce Campbell, Bruce Boxleitner, and/or a "pandaconda" into this pic please.

I claim all rights to "pandaconda." If anyone uses it, you owe me 10¢ licensing fee, because that is what such an atrocity is worth.

The question is not "Do you believe in global warming?" But rather "Do you believe global warming is man-made?"

Personally, I think it's a perfect storm scenario where man's tiny contribution to it has been exponentially magnified by a natural heating period. What I am more worried about is not the heat now, but that it will stay too warm to set off the next "little ice age" cold spell and thus we'll see actual global warming.

One thing that scares me though is that most of the people that want to stop global warming suggest plans that would cut short term pollution immediately. A lot of that heavy, nasty pollution is a savior in disguise because it reflects light and heat back into space. If you cut all the emissions they want, you'll still have the light greenhouse gases heating us up for decades while the heavy contaminants would be out of the air in years or even months. It would make the problem a lot worse and probably set off natural reactions that would spiral out of control, especially from the then even more overheated oceans.

It happened in a neighbor's yard when I was little. He had new sod installed a few years earlier and the grass grew together and into the underlying soil. However, in that area, the ground was extremely rocky and hard, so the result was that the roots stopped at the point where the turned soil met the native dirt a few inches below. When a pipe broke under his lawn while he was on vacation, the entire thing filled up with essentially loose mud for over a week before it met the sidewalk.

BWOP! RUSH! Hundreds, if not thousands, of gallons of muddy water shot out and filled the street.

@ james987, I don't know if that is possible, but if it is, it is brilliant.

Too bad Jeffrey Hunter has long since passed away.

When I write my best, it is after a few drinks. Not enough to get full-on drunk, just slightly tipsy. I have to go back sober and edit it of course, but you have to do that when you write sober from the beginning too.

I think the kid deserved to be beaten.

It's a good thing we live in an unfree country! Else it would be okay for an independent business to make employment decisions based on whatever they chose!

Seriously, anti-discrimination is anti-freedom. Let horrible people be horrible and the world sort out if they want to deal with them or not.

I would have expelled him and the kids that threatened him. After that, I would have the entire school undergo an intensive bout of getting their $#@! together so this sort of thing did not happen again.

I'd say it was the character complexity and font size. Go pick up a copy of and asian textbook, or better yet a copy of hobby japan, it's in maybe a 4pt font and the characters of most asian languages are not very kind to being legible in a tiny font. If you spent 20 years staring at that, your eyes would adapt to the point that you'd be blind trying to see much of anything else.

He's a crook. The corporations dictate the laws through lobbying, ergo, the corporations' laws are the nation's and he is a crook.

That's news? I could have told you that when I was 5, over 25 years ago.

I pre-rinse and occasionally wipe them with a paper towel because if I don't, they come out filthy. But then again, this dishwasher has had to be repaired over 20 times since we got it. So like anything else, you get what other people make you pay for. I wanted a really nice Bosch dishwasher and everyone else shot it down in favor of a POS Maytag. With the amount of money we have spent on repairs, energy, water, detergent... well, to put it mildly, we could have bought the Bosch and had the money to replace the ruined wood floor the dishwasher's flooding caused with a new wood floor instead of that ugly vinyl.

From what I see, we should defund lots of other things and pump more into science and research. The rest of the world has slipped past us, we're hemorrhaging, and it's our only chance left.

As for manned space flight, it's such a tiny amount of money in the bigger picture, especially when you consider how much of our tax money is outright wasted, that cutting it is basically just a slap in the face. It's like they are saying, "We'll cancel hope that costs 3¢ and continue to waste 54¢ just to spite you all."

Wouldn't it also depend on the size of the sphere and the definition of contact area?

If contact area is defined as say, the absence of atmospheric space between surfaces, then we would be able to determine the smallest atom in said atmosphere, find where between the surfaces it falls below that atom's compressed diameter, and find the area of the resulting circle.

If defined as the distance in which no other particle, sub-atomic or otherwise could fit between them, the same thing occurs.

Also then if our sphere is massive, that "area of contact" would thus increase.

Though I would also contend that two such perfect surfaces would be made of the same material and, by being well within distances of their molecular bonds, would fuse out to the point where the molecular bonds' lengths were exceeded.