A baking soda volcano trumps mice. ;-)

It's a good thing Amazon sells batteries with future technology then. ;-)

You bring up some interesting points. Here's a few more to consider. Physical delivery of DVD's from Netflix or any other company rely on the USPS. They are having some serious budgetary issues, and congress seems unwilling to agree on anything let alone helping them. It appears that mail delivery may be cut back to 4 or 5 day per week sometime next year. To compound this, they are also likely to close half of their sorting centers. This will mean that most mail will take at minimum 2 days rather than the typical one day to be delivered. I'm currently able to get up to 3 deliveries per week from Netflix. If the USPS makes the changes they have proposed, I'll be lucky to get one delivery per week. I don't like it, but It's probably smart of Netflix to prepare to get out of the physical DVD rental business.

  The streaming model also has it's own issues. My ISP is Comcast and they obviously do not like the competition using their own network. With all of the bandwidth caps and other issues they have, it's pretty obvious that streaming, at least when it's not from them, is evil in their opinion. This is only going to become more problematic. Additionally, streaming quality sucks. It's not hard to record it, but it's so bad I don't see the value in doing so. I can see why the MPAA is so rabid over torrents. They use less bandwidth and you can get a better viewing experience than may be possible in the near future from the rental options.

I would assume that it has something to do with satisfying the MPAA requirements for DRM. But that's just a guess.

Had those too. Still, it took time for those early solid state TVs to charge the capacitors too.

Except in my case they generally get cancelled after less than a season or change direction to appeal to a larger (dumber) audience. That's why I wait until a show has been on a few seasons before watching it on DVD. No commercials, writer strikes or season breaks.

If you television doesn't proudly display in shiny embossed letters, "Solid State" you probably don't know. ;-)

Cows have been domesticated to the point that I seriously doubt the species could survive on it's own. If it ever comes to pass that synthetic meat supplants them then I'd guess that they'd quickly become an endangered/extinct species. At that point no one will be intentionally setting aside huge pastures for them to graze in . They would become a large destructive animal that has little to no natural habitat left.

...Faster than a speeding bullet, able to level entire buildings in a single blow. ;-)

Of course the British royal family are none of those. They're werewolves.

How realistic is this except for the psychological aspect? How easy will it be to stay healthy in 0g?

I think this is the first time that I've found myself wishing I had mod points.

OK, what number should I call you at? Virtually all of the tree in this area still had their leaves on them. This gave the wet heavy snow an awful lot of surface area to stick to. Almost every street has huge branches broken off or trees that collapsed. Personally, all of my trees held up, so I was unaffected. My neighbor has three very large branches down in his yard and another neighbor across the street has a tree that split in half. We only had 5 inches of snow here, I don't think the amount of snowfall is the relevant factor. So can I call that number collect? ;-)

We got 5 inches of snow here in Virginia, but I wasn't affected in any way. I guess I don't get to vote in this poll.