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If this comes to fruition, we can at least console ourselves that Global Warming would be stopped (by killing out ocean-borne oxygen breathers).

They wouldn't have an inherently higher survivorship, but it would be toxic to predators, wiping them out (either directly by toxicity, or indirectly by starvation), at the same ti…

Recently it was proven possible to construct an organism through synthetic processes. This is still limited to very close copies of the real things, but could be adapted to produce…

Even if predators can't metabolize the mirror molecules, they can still eat them (possibly dying afterwards). So you'd need to release the mirror algae( ?) in very large quantities…

You may want to have a payment processor as a backup solution, they will provide their own APIs to their services. Relying on PayPal alone can be risky.

Relevant resource on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)

The question should be: "Why doesn't C have a string data type?" C only considers a pointer to a char, it's the programmers' fault they treat this structure like a string.

Why do people think a social networking toolbar, social networking side panel and facebook iframe add value to their website?

All they missed was a can of spam.

One more step toward a fully self-replicating reprap.

It's yet another "command economy simulator", probably not very different from the models used by our central bankers. That is, if they indeed rely on models and not nakedly trying…

For a fraction of the cost of an electric gun, they could have built a light-gas gun with better capabilities.

This should be the poster-child for what went wrong with housing in the last few years: $125M for a tower built on a beach undergoing erosion. After the building started leaning no…

You mean, the first time I had a reason to use (the expensive) mobile bandwidth, the carriers are unhappy?

Can we get some perspective from a Swede on this issue?

In which case, they could have been in violation if it was GPL code.

Why would this guy bother copying stuff off the Goldman servers when it was open source, and presumably freely available?

Prepare for obfuscated-code penises.

It's more a courtesy call so they don't look quite like saying "Good riddance!"

Really, what's with those RGB+Yellow displays?

While retrograde, it's only "weakly" so in that it has a very slow rotation period (1 solar year == 2 solar days).

For a challenge, play Gomoku (large Go board, 5 in a row, column or across) http://www.playok.com/en/gomoku/

So planets would tend to form more from the aggregation of gas rather than rocks or dust (then accumulate the other kinds of matter in the new gaseous body). Does this new model al…