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New York tried that. This is one example of a weapon specifically constructed* for the buyback and the several hundred dollars paid per gun turned in.

*It works. So you would literally have to shut down every hardware store and confiscate 2x4s and plumbing supplies to "get guns off the street". Good luck with that.

We are finally going to catch this guy!! - http://img.izismile.com//img/i...

(the problem is the background - your brain is very good at understanding what upside-down means, but an algorithm trained by seeing tons of right-sided up images only understands that a silo is rounded on top and straight on the bottom. - The question I have, is what are the pratical implications of all the extra processing power that might take? Finally figuring out who that gymnast was from that circ-du-soleil screenshot? )

Forget flying, these ones worked out how to weave a net.

http://www.ozanimals.com/Spider/Net-casting-Spider/Deinopis/subrufa.html

Here's a video: http://izismile.com/2012/08/01/nature_why_you_so_scary_netcasting_spider.html

My parents have them in the plants around their house, and on the balcony.

Everyone scoffs at the Chinese when they boast like this, but there really isn't any particular problem with what they are proposing.

Okay, look at how long it takes to excavate/drill down to the bedrock.

Next, look at how long it takes for concrete to properly cure to full strength. Keep in mind that the foundation will be responsible for keeping millions of tons upright - something Chinese builders haven't been particularly good at even on a smaller scale lately.

Now tell me: do you really want to trust a millions-of-tons half-mile-tall building on a foundation that wasn't given months to cure?

As long as it remains upright.

Neat article you linked to there. Here's how it read to me.

TERRY GROSS: Right. So you know, you write that in Dubai they don't have, like, a sewage infrastructure to support high-rises like this one. So what do they do with the sewage?

KATE ASCHER: A variety of buildings there, some can access a municipal system but many of them actually use trucks to take the sewage out of individual buildings and then they wait on a queue to put it into a waste water treatment plant. So it's a fairly primitive system.

GROSS!

ASCHER: That's right. I'm told they can wait up to 24 hours before they get to the head of the queue. Now, there is a municipal system that is being invested in and I assume will connect all of these tall buildings in some point in the near future, but they're certainly not alone. In India many buildings are responsible for providing their own water and their own waste water removal.

So it's, it's really – we're very fortunate in this country that we assume we can plug into an urban system that can handle whatever waste the building produces. That's not the case everywhere else in the world.

GROSS!

ASCHER: Right. Well, you know, you have to remember that a place like Dubai really emerged in the last 50 years. It was a sleepy, you know, Bedouin town half a century ago. And what you do is when you bring in the world's, you know, most sophisticated architects and engineers, you can literally build anything, including a building of 140 or 150 stories. But designing a municipal network of sewage treatment is in some ways more complex.

It certainly requires more money and more time to make it happen, so one just seemed to jump ahead of the other.

As long as it remains upright.

But personally, i'd prefer a mini-cooper with a Charlise over the gold bricks anyway...

What if someone had made this choice 50 years ago?

1. Looks of a female star
2. Price of Gold

Yes, it is. Just look at this:

http://izismile.com/2009/06/29/apartment_building_fell_down_in_china_12_pics.html