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    Escape to the Movies: Interstellar - Doesn't Live Up To Its Own Name

    Appreciate the insight as always Bob. Great review, speaks closely to my own opinion after seeing the film last night.
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    Poll: Do you like Microsoft?

    They're a solid company. Windows 8 is excellent as is their other stellar software.
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    A decent (preferably free) mmo?

    GW2 is the best MMO I've ever played. Fluid combat mechanics with DAoC style server vs server PvP, it is also the first MMO I've experienced (having tried DAoC, WoW, WAR, Aion and SWTOR) in which I actually like the PvE, especially fractals of the mists, probably because combat is genuinely...
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    The Big Picture: Science!

    Studying science they like to drill the whole 'ethics/morality' thing into your pretty hard. This sort of bioengineering science is always used as an example case of ethics halting 'progress' for better or worse. I hear that for many scientists in this field of research, they feel the...
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    The Big Picture: Science!

    For those who don't get the joke: atomic transmutation = nuclear fission. Nuclear fission reactors do already exist! Yeah, it'd be pretty sweet Djinn8 :D
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    The Big Picture: Science!

    As far as I know the animal has to be able to show that it can recognise itself in a mirror. Whether it's just the animal itself or whether it has to display somehow that it can distinguish itself in the mirror from among others of it's kind I'm not sure. In reference to dolphins, it was...
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    The Big Picture: Science!

    Yep, currently it's all experimental. I guess that could be assumed from how I wrote that though. They are working on fusion reactors, however and everything actually written in my piece on fusion is true. Here is the big project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER I'm not sure about...
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    The Big Picture: Science!

    As a Science student in University studying Astrophysics and Biology, I can give tell you the actual basic reasons none of these are commonplace. 1) Jetpacks: Far too energy inefficient with current technology. We simply do not have the resources to run these on a large scale...