/sci/ - Science & Math

>Spitzer Detects Shadow of 'Super-Earth' in Front of Nearby Star
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110504111047.htm

>Transistors Reinvented Using New 3-D Structure
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110505092252.htm

Discuss.

The state of the country would be improved if you had a technocratic government focusing far more on the well being of the people rather than net exports, alongside focusing on the technology to stop being dependent on exports to keep the country running.

>>1972845
Doesn't matter if no existing countries decide not to do it.
But what happens when Japan get their space elevator up?

>>1933025
How would we accomplish merging NZ and Australia?

All the people in this picture.

WHAT HAS TO BE DONE HAS TO BE DONE.

Three months after leaving Earth, the URSS Alabama had just achieved cruise velocity when the accident occurred: Leslie Gillis woke up.

He regained consciousness slowly, as if emerging from a long and dreamless sleep. His body, naked and hairless, floated within the blue-green gelatin that filled the interior of his biostasis cell, an oxygen mask covering the lower part of his face and thin plastic tubes inserted in his arms. As his vision cleared, Gillis saw that the cell had been lowered to a horizontal position and that its fiberglass lid had folded open. The lighting within the hibernation deck was subdued, yet he had to open and close his eyes several times.

His first lucid thought was: Thank God, I made it.

His body felt weak, his limbs stiff. Just as he had been cautioned to do during flight training, he carefully moved only a little at a time. As Gillis gently flexed his arms and legs, he vaguely wondered why no one had come to his aid. Perhaps Dr. Okada was busy helping the others emerge from biostasis. Yet he could hear nothing save for a subliminal electrical hum; no voices, no movement.

His next thought was: Something’s wrong.

Back aching, his arms feeling as if they were about to dislocate from his shoulders, Gillis grasped the sides of the cell and tried to sit up. For a minute or so he struggled against the phlegmatic embrace of the suspension fluid; there was a wet sucking sound as he prized his body upward, then the tubes went taut before he remembered that he had to take them out. Clenching his teeth, Gillis pinched off the tubes between thumb and forefinger and, one by one, carefully removed them from his arms. The oxygen mask came off last; the air was frigid and it stung his throat and lungs, and he coughed in agonized spasms as, with the last ounce of his strength, he clambered out of the tank. His legs couldn’t hold him, and he collapsed upon the cold floor of the deck.