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Yes, filming a public street or walkway has been upheld (in the US). So has filming from a public walkway. This means that someone could sit on the...

Then that certain scenario is implicitly defined with us having knowledge of the likelihood of life arising, i still don't see the problem so much....

I don't think this is the case in the US - I may be out of date, but if you are not looking/filming inside another house, taling pictures/videos of...

Oh, and putting a recording camera up that cover public streets is likely quite illegal for private citizens, and local authorities may well react to...

At least he didn't try it until the other treatments failed.

The only FLRW spacetimes that admit a timelike killing vector field are (anti-)de Sitter and Minkowski. Perhaps i should've phrased my statement as...

A 1.5! North Carolina was thought to be geologically inactive, then they bid for the superconducting supercollider, and installed a seismic...

Or quidditch, played on many campuses

i believe that there are videos of comets crashing into the sun, so at least stuff that size can do it..

is it any less practical than asking a bunch of strangers on the internet how practical it is?

me thinks Gillian takes her movies too seriously... i'm not a fan of 3D movies, either- i generally don't see the point- but i'd pay to see the...

Although I love good pasta, I like all of those different foods at different times. The same thing always gets boring.

Finished Bioshock. On the whole I was expecting it to be better, it was very repetative. Playing through Thief 3 again, whetting my appetite for...

Seeing all that happening in OK makes realize how really, really lucky my sister and her family were.

I hadn't heard about artificial wombs until I read Brave New World in high school, then suddenly I was seeing them in several stories in the same...

Part the final Then Vader yells "NOOOO!!!" I mean Spock yells "KHAAAAAN!!!" Whoever thought up that idea needs to be have his testicles removed...

Part 6 Now with the upper hand, Khan dials up Spock and tells him he wants the missiles with his crew handed over to him, or he will kill Kirk and...

There could be other reasons that have nothing to do with solar output. Maybe there are chemicals in the air that make people more sensitivity. Or...

This week has been quite an interesting time. "Interesting time" as in the Chinese curse.

a ... burp?

"Missing Headlines".

I'll just share a brief quote from a short news piece in Nature that just came out: Apparently this shows how terribly difficult human...

Noclevername is banned for popping up.

The sheepdogs like the rum a bit, but yesterday I found a paddock full of hamsters, and no sign of sheep.

My Frustration With The Life Aquatic: A thread about an underwater exploration forum's long, repetitive arguments about the possibility of deep-sea...

From what I understand, it's the editor rather than the journalist who does the headline, And it's deliberate to the point where they'll quite...

Ok .. now I understand. Yep .. the recent study: "Effects of Long-Term Simulated Martian Conditions on a Freeze-Dried and Homogenized Bacterial ...

And what Tusenfem, a real physicist as well as a moderator, would like to say is: "What a load of crap. The sun hasn't done ****-all different in...

Great idea. Making it work is going to be the hard part. . .