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• Commented on Evolution of the International Space Station
  Money for NASA is very limited. Resources put to ISS take away from what could be spent doing really interesting things. I vote for a massive effort to determine whether life has ever existed on Mars. This would be accomplished...
• Commented on Evolution of the International Space Station
  Neat, I guess. I think I remember seeing in Nature that the ISS is scheduled to be "de-orbited" in 2012 (although this could change). Has the ISS accomplished much other than providing fodder for USAToday's graphic artists?...
• Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
  @sfazzios: Touche. Good point re: ad hominem attack (although I still suspect there's some truth to it)....
• Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
  I think many commentators here are seeing things that weren't in the video: -the video didn't claim to be explaining quantum mechanics or string theory, nor did it put great emphasis on these in the discussion -I don't think that...
• Commented on Visualizing up to ten dimensions
  Okay, forget for a moment whether or not this is a good representation of string theory. Other than that, is there any thing about it that is "wrong"? I want to know because I find the ideas very appealing, but...
• Commented on HOWTO Present a poster session at a science meeting
  @Tim. Oh god yes. Many, many posters have ~10x too much text....
• Commented on HOWTO Present a poster session at a science meeting
  At the conferences I'm familiar with (ASABE, AOCS, IFT), if you have anything halfway decent you can request either a poster or an oral presentation and you'll probably get whichever you request. I've always chosen oral until once just recently....
• Commented on USDA reports 406,000 pounds of "cattle heads containing prohibited materials recalled"
  For the record, the US is almost entirely BSE free. Only about three infected animals have been found, ever. And none in years. The UK had 10's of thousands of cases, and while it has largely contained the problem, still...
• Commented on Twin Peaks -- 10 DVD set
  Is the Twin Peaks movie included in this set?...