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Famous for her tales of "sky falling", Chicken Little today announced that her team of experts has discovered a new security threat: The BootID DOS Attack.

Users should wear strong headgear and avoid looking up while this attack is occuring. A patch for the hole in the sky that this attack is aiming for is in development.

The hacking community responded that basing security of any planet on blue sky and clouds was fool hardy. "We have been waiting for someone to notice the holes we have been punching in the sky over the last few years", rebutted Foxy Loxy.

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You can pack alot of communications gear into a 10cm cube. Provide propulsion with ion engines. With ~16 of these cubes, you could cover most of earth. Run your own spy network. Put harddisks on them and run GNUtella over the amature satellite band. With 64+ you can be a force in the satellite communications industry (beware the FCC). Cost: 64*50K = $3,200,000. Add 10 million more for R & D and ground stations. Everyone else in satellite communications paid billions and must charge high prices to get any ROI.

Those persons afraid of 'space junk' give Nerds a bad name. People on the ground are more likely to be hit by a meteor than by space junk. The dangerous (to spacecraft) junk is the stuff too small to detect on radar. Larger objects (such as the cube) can be detected and either avoided, deflected or destroyed as needed. See http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/08/20a.html for NASA's answer to space junk. I'm sure you can come up with something better, and mount it in a 10cm cube.

After building your cube empire in space, send up a 2 KW laser and carve your initials on the ISS!

There's also an NSF study here and another study discussed on CNN in which a panel of climatologists disprove dissenters' arguments against global warming. It should be noted that most scientists nowadays believe global warming has been occurring.

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Except oil is from rocks not dinosaurs. It's just floating up from below and getting trapped at various depths. Not only is it not nearly as limited as previously thought, but if we run low we could go get an asteroid full of carbon and make more...

> Those things aren't balanced!
Guess someone failed the moments of inertia calculations on the physics/calculas tests :-)

> it has to do with centrifucal(sp?) force
Did you mean Centripetal (or Centrifugal ) force?

http://explorezone.com/101/centrifugal.h tm

Cheers

Because the Sun has 99.86 percent of the mass of the solar system and we couldn't bother it even if we dropped Jupiter in. There's already more iron, plutonium, and everything else there than in the entire Earth. For that matter, a single asteroid has more metals than the Earth's upper crust.

explorezone.com has a news article on this which includes and interview with the astronomers.

My map of Near Earth Objects has 1999 AN10 marked on it, and will be updated daily. It's Currently the red object near mercury.

And Benny Peiser's Cambridge Conference network mailing list broke the news of this to it's readers - readers like Arthur C Clarke, Bill Napier, Mark Bailey and other big names in the field.