Where debating everything under the sun is only the beginning

It should be a mosque on the tank as being more practical.  

Nothing I do these days requires computing power. I used to do spreadsheets back in the olden days on a desktop and also on an Apple 2E. Speed would have helped.

IT'S heady stuff. The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US. The move is a call to arms to get interested parties together to work towards the surgery.

The idea was first proposed in 2013 by Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy. He wants to use the surgery to extend the lives of people whose muscles and nerves have degenerated or whose organs are riddled with cancer. Now he claims the major hurdles, such as fusing the spinal cord and preventing the body's immune system from rejecting the head, are surmountable, and the surgery could be ready as early as 2017.

This might help some of our posters. Can you think of a candidate?

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The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US.

Is it transplanting a head or a body?

The world's first attempt to transplant a human head will be launched this year at a surgical conference in the US.

Speaking of Hawking, have you noticed that although he's a Brit, he has an American accent. 

MORE AWESOMESAUCE:  "New Horizons Probe Finds Out Pluto's Bigger (and Icier) Than We Thought"

The secrets of the Universe can only be found at the endlessly small scale not at the endlessly big dimension.
Discovers are made at European CERN not sending junk American trash for space.

Discovers are made at European CERN not sending junk American trash for space.

We should have new photos within a few days. Have you noticed how much Pluto looks like a rutabaga?

Sadly, Portugal has had it's day in the sun and is just another Spanish colony.

One more financial crisis and it'll be a German colony.

Do not, under any circumstances, land there. Seriously, don't do it. 

Maybe it's time to call a Priest to receive your last rites... ex-Catholic.

Earth will become unlivable for most organisms in about 1.3 billion years due to the sun's natural evolution, experts told Live Science. And humans could potentially drive ourselves (and countless other species) to extinction within the next few centuries, if the current pace of human-made climate change isn't mitigated, or as a consequence of nuclear war.

A man-made pandemic could be pretty nasty, but covid helped us prepare for future pandemics.

...only if we take the right lessons from what was an abysmal response in most of the Western World: Determine the threat, mitigate by protecting the most vulnerable, and  let actual science proceed — to give us the best understanding possible...

I fear the worst lessons were learned: Ignore or obfuscate the the origin of the threat, impose next to useless societal and economically ruinous strictures, and stifle scientific communication so that only that which supports the strictures is communicated...

Even in the worst case scenario, though: Humanity will likely survive. Natural selection hasn't been obviated — only outlawed!

The methods and policies deployed in the West are the same as were already in use in Far East, that is less touching, more cleaning of hands, masks and vaccines. All these methods have a proven effect with very contagious air-borne viruses, but are far from fully reliable - because it's a very contagious air-borne virus and people don't follow best practices for various reasons.