Whenever I go to the doctor's or dentist's office for a visit, I'm in the waiting room with my iPod on my belt, headphones in my ears, my iPaq out with stylus, zooming through e-mails and websites.

But yet, when the nurse comes to grab me--she has a manilla envelope with the three-sheet ditto paper and is using a ball point pen. It's like the Jetsons meet the Flintstones and it's almost like the guy with the stethoscope is on the wrong end of the evolutionary timeline.

I don't know about you, but I want to see virtual reality and LCD computers screens everywhere in my doctor's office.

Does anyone else find this to be a FUBAR situation?

TT: Healthcare, Technology

It is now being theorized that the asteroid Ceres, the largest known asteroid, may contain more water than Earth.

I have long thought that asteroids would make excellent bases for terraforming and setting up colonies and mining operations. But I never imagined that they could actually contain water.

If this is true, then it is completely possible for humans to land on, develop, and colonize an asteroid, even keeping to the point of building some type of nuclear engine that could change the trajection of the asteroid to keep it from colliding with interplanetary matter.

I could write an entire Science Fiction television series about this asteroid colony and make it as kick ass as Star Trek or Babylon 5.

This is very cool!