also: you have ca doors that require the cat to wear a rfid tag, or it wont open. might be expensive tho.

agreed with tk9, it would also alow for the arduino to do the detection instead of running a computer. Nice fix tho!

its on the middle of the road, if not you would have seen the track deoression in the field :)

also, ready and prepare to stop look like each other when you are looking at em from a (rainy) distance. Not a good concept at all!

*in the Netherlands some traffic lights do have a countdown timer, mostly for pedestrians. (to avoid jaywalking).

isnt it about survival? that sometimes means you just HAVE to have the bigger stick.

MAc: have you even bother to read the damn article? the alien quote about screaming in space is because vacuum does not transmit sound.. This is about whistle IN a space suit, where if you would scream Houston would know there is a problem... but you cant whistle...

the first video freaks me out... is there a direct link between looks and brain power or something?

*not to piss anyone off, but there is a difference between believing and just downright ignoring other views.

i agree with the others: unless i'm missing something, this is a solution looking for a problem. until now i was under the solid conviction people tend to talk at a party.

one possibility, however slim, and if thats true we better clean up our act: One civilization needs the be at the forefront of technology, why not us? it would explain why we haven't seen anyone else, we are the ones the rest is looking for :D

Time travel messes it up, so thats of the table :)

that or the advanced aliens are playing us like a bad game of simworld.

for those who want to know how much bird dropping where on te car you have to follow the link for the reunion movie and than click part two, they reveal the general at the end there.

@david: Because Hollywood would never copy existing icons?

you guys just dont know this is a first step for making room for the pooltable that rises next to it. :)

or just clean the place more often...reminds me of a study that came to the conclusion that in a high amount of the cases the toilet bowl had less germs than the kitchen top. Mostly due to powerful chemicals/huge amounts of water in the toilet and the simple wipe over the kitchen.

still, every country i visited (before some of them got the euro) had different size bank notes for different values,smaller being less. It's a simple solution.

some studies even show lightweight plastic coffee cups have less inpact on the environment than a normal cupand a dishwasher cycle.