] The Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the
] cosmic abyss and created a unique baby picture of the
] universe. Until now, images returned by Hubble showed
] galaxies as they appeared when they were cosmic
] youngsters. The new images reveal the galaxies as
] toddlers, in the midst of a period of rapid developmental
] changes.

It's interesting to hear about the Hubble after so many years of it not being in the news.

Hubble Space Telescope Sees Where Time Began

] Vehicle to autonomous biped robot conversion for the Mini
] Cooper r50.
]
] I first had the vision to build a robot while working as
] an engineer on the old Mini Coopers in the late 1960s.
] There were no real robots at the time of course, so it
] was purely science-fiction. But I always believed a robot
] would be the most natural complement to the automobile -
] a full biped, intelligent version having great strength,
] dexterity and a library of mechanical knowledge. I
] imagined a robot with the ability to repair vehicles,
] direct traffic and watch over high-accident crossroads to
] preempt accidents.

The first word that comes to mind is "Transformers".

The second is "Terminator."

Be sure to check out the "Car Stopping" test.

http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/

] As a result of this study, I must conclude that cooked
] flavor is a result more of ancestral inheritance than of
] convergent evolution. Many animals taste similar because
] they evolved from a common ancestor that tasted that way.
] The meat of our argument is that "chicken-like" flavor is
] ancestral (that is, plesiomorphic) for birds and many
] other vertebrates, as well. Indeed, the emphasis on
] chicken in the statement "tastes like chicken" is
] misleading. The common ancestor of most tetrapods would
] have tasted similarly, if we had only been there to cook
] and eat it.
]
] I therefore propose that the use of "taste like chicken"
] be banished from common speech in favor of "tastes like
] tetrapod."

Check out the "Taste Like" diagram at the bottom. This guy ate some seriously gross stuff for this study. Cat taste like tetrapod, in case you were wondering.

They also have an article that literally compares apples to oranges.

Tastes Like Chicken...[aka 'Have you seen Fluffy?']