Very interesting. Hottest temperature ever created on Earth.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11732814/

Some interesting things to note...

- Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

- They don't know how they did it.

- The high temperature was achieved after the plasma’s ions should have been losing energy and cooling.

- When the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in, something that usually occurs only in nuclear reactions.

- Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved

You shouldn't have retired till 2009

O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts

by Nina Totenberg 

Morning Edition, March 10, 2006 · Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor showed Thursday that she's not absent from judicial issues. During a speech in Washington, she said Republican leaders' attacks on the courts threaten the constitutional freedoms of Americans.