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I predict that in the future, we will learn how to travel through time. This won’t happen in 2010, but it MAY happen in the next decade.

Every time I’ve interviewed a quantum physicist on Dreamland, I’ve asked them the question, “Is time travel possible?” and every one of them has said, “Yes.”

However, they think we’ll only be able to travel into the past, since travel into the future would imply that the events of the future are fixed and immutable, which would in turn bring up the old philosophical question of “Do we have free will?” If we decide that we don’t, then morality is a waste of time.
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Could hasten climate change – An iceberg the size of a small European country has broken off from a glacier in Antarctica after being rammed by another giant iceberg. This could effect the circulation of the jet stream in the ocean, which would in turn affect climate change. It could also be lead to starvation for the local penguins.

The area is an important zone for the creation of dense, salty water that is a key driver of global ocean circulation. In Reuters UK, David Fogarty quotes researcher Rob Massom as saying, “The calving itself hasn’t been directly linked to climate change but it is related to the natural processes occurring on the ice sheet.”
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And not just if you take them off at the wrong time, either.

Fashion expert Alison Matthews David explains why the Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was “Mad.” She says, “Hatters used to work with highly toxic materials that led to mercury poisoning. Their symptoms were pallor, anemia, trembling and disorientation. It’s possible that Lewis Carroll, who grew up near a center of the hatting trade, would have seen people behaving as ‘mad as a hatter.'”
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Something strange is going on: Normally, this is the peak period for the flu in the United States. But that just doesn’t seem to be the case this year. Since both bird flu and swine flu turned out to be scares that went nowhere, many people are turning their backs on new flu scares, considering them to be just more hype. But should they? When scientists combined the two viruses in a lab, the newly-created virus proved extremely lethal to mice. If it happens in nature, what will it do to us?
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