Posts by pealla

Medieval warming was global – new science contradicts IPCC

And back and forth it goes... What I would like to see is peer reviewed researched on the number of opinions that were reconsidered due to viewing an online forum.

Feds unlock suspect's encrypted drive, avoid Constitution meltdown

If mind reading technology progresses to the point that legal sense can be made of thoughts where does it leave this defence? If you cannot be compelled to implicate yourself would that be sufficient or would a mind reading session be viewed as simply another form of interrogation?

Swiss space-cleaning bot grabs flying junk, hurls itself into furnace

Whatever it is doesn't have to stop the junk, just slow it down enough to deorbit. A big net held in the corners by some ion thruster satellites, let tidal forces stretch it out ... vertically anyway. Spider silk is weight for weight pretty damn strong and stretchy and if we can breed up some space spiders it'll be self healing. Just need some space flies to keep em alive...

Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy

Does microlensing work at radio frequencies? Perhaps SETI should be aiming at these events.