electrifying!

So, what happens after you swallow the 80 carat gem?

Congrats to Fark! France and my puny browser surrender at such an awesomely long thread.

Spaniards FTW!

That's certainly a neat project, but besides the "wow, we can do it" factor, what's the value?

So the quagga is extinct - we humans live on and have improved living conditions since the late 19th century. Why do we need a zebra subspecies?

Just thinking outloud.

Now, if it was a giant woolly mammoth, THAT'll be different! :)

Or check out this link on Neatorama for more from awesome The Deep book by Claire Nouvian.

Well Sid, regular email is susceptible to packet sniffers, so I don't see any additional problem over unencrypted connection to retrieve them.

Regarding Google reading your emails - true, but privacy is an illusion when it comes to your regular email over POP3 anyhow: most of us use shared servers, which are susceptible to crackers and snooping admins. And how hardened are most people's computer anyhow? At least with Google, they've got top notch security to protect the data (at least from outside factors!)

Google has been criticized for its privacy policy and how long they retain user-deleted emails - true again. Even if there is a privacy policy, there's no way of double checking if your data is truly purged from Google, or in that matter, any computer.

I thought that was her butt! OMG hamsters got big balls!

Ali S.: Soft butt? Too much information!!!

Oops - fixed now, thanks Martin!

David, I thought that was debunked: ye olde glass panes weren't made uniformly. So when they were installed, homebuilders of yore (who weren't stupid), put the strongest part on the bottom.

Yes - he's quite talented, Levi!

Quick, someone whip Lasse! :)

But in many instances, it's impossible to make the egress larger or to add more of them in existing buildings.

The study is important in which it suggests that placing a barrier has the paradoxial effect of making the whole evacuation rate faster.