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Like everyone I have my doubts about this thing, but I do have the impression you are all too pessimistic. Plus, there's quite a bit of misunderstandings here, so allow me to clarify some stuff: Not feasible for the Chinese at all, as they don't have any mines (and hence no stash worth...

About the altering an asteroid's path thingy, here's a relevant TED talk (first ârt talks about how scary meteor impacts are, second part is about changing the course of asteroids). http://www.ted.com/talks/phil_plait_how_to_defend_earth_from_asteroids.html Some random trivia: the founders of...

One of the people behind this (can't remember who) said that if the prices crash, they did their job well. In fact, Peter Diamandis his "why we do this" talk at the start of the press conference was all about how they want to make those resources abundant. Besides, if/when they're so succesful...

They probably agree with you. After all, they're searching for carbon-rich asteroids right now, not platinum rich asteroids. Not only so they use the water within to fund eventual actual mineral mining, but also because other space companies would gladly pay a lot of cash to buy water from them...

Of course. More information about near-earth asteroids in short term and lower prices for those rare metals in long term are both things that'll greatly benefit us. In addition, they plan to greatly reduce costs for future space exploration by allowing ships to refuel in space (their first...

Looking at the systems used in countries that do have great education systems I have the impression you're blaming the wrong things. Here in Belgium there are next to no private schools (even the childs of the rich and royalty go to public schools) and unions are even stronger, yet our education...

I don't think that's a problem, as there are enough asteroids that we can be picky. For example, a prime candidate for an asteroid for mining right now would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(6178)_1986_DA . Quote from that wikipedia article: Asteroid 1986 DA achieved its most notable recognition...

They didn't say anything like that. Everything is speculation until they reveal more about their business plans, which as far as I know will happen at a news conference Tuesday. All we know is that they want to combine the sectors of space exploration and natural resources and other similar...

If we get more news about that, it should be worth a separate topic. By the way, Peter Diamandis, mentioned in the article as one of the people behind this, actually did a great TED talk about exploration and stuff: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/peter_diamandis_on_our_next_giant_leap.html...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon Unrelated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_%28soldier_bear%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur...

http://www.wikihow.com/Run-Regression-Analysis-in-Microsoft-Excel Not sure why you want to use Excel for that though.

Hmm, here an answer to some questions I found interesting that were asked on page 11. It is possible to have different idea of numbers. For example, an alien race might use sets instead of numbers. So, instead of saying "0 exists and every element n has a successor n +1" (this is how we define...

It's aimed at YA and there are times when you notice it. Small example from the third book: after mentioning an old song/story, several pages are used to explain all the analogies between the song and the actual hunger game story instead of letting the readers figure it out for themselves...

a^(ln(b)/ln(a))=b So yes, an irrational power (ln(b)/ln(a)) of an rational number (a) can be rational (b).

Currently studying Mathematics at my local university, 3rd year. I understand that your last sentence was probaly a hyperbole, but either way as it may intrest people here to know what mathematicians actually do after their studies: of the people who finish their math dergee here (that is...

Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are "it might have been." We talked about the Pope and birth control, about Hitler...

If I saw someone writing everything in block letters (without there being a good reason to do so), I'd assume they were dim. I'm sorry for this prejudice, but I simply can't remember seeing someone not using cursive writing for a large text (and I see quite a lot of handwriting in uni).

A question for all agnostics: Are you an apatheist?

Catch-22 Frankenstein Cat's Cradle Don Quichote A Tale of 2 Cities Utopia By the way, you should check out project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org), most of the books mentioned in this threads are available for free on that site as ebooks.

Shorter workdays for all is a much more obvious solution. I'd rather have everyone work a little bit, than have a few work a lot.