Maybe they could pay their hard working engineers and other employees something a little more commensurate with their apparently high output? Sounds like it would be killing more than a couple birds with one stone.

In regards to having the card issuer's number on hand, wouldn't a simple phonebook entry do the trick?

Personally, I'd much rather just buy a combined iPhone+credit card wallet case thing. If you added a billfold in there, you could just pick up your multi-case and walk out the door!

I guess I didn't quite get to your question. Nuclear detonations outside of the Earth's atmosphere would be less dangerous than atmospheric explosions, although it would still not be something you'd want to do every day. Also, it should be noted that the detonations would occur far from the earth. To be at all effective, NASA's plan would have to be carried out years in advance. See my comment below. The nuclear blasts probably wouldn't effect us at all. And even if they did, I'd rather have geostationary satellites break and communications interrupted than have the Earth get clobbered.

Nuclear warheads have, indeed, been detonated in the upper reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. The detonations were performed as tests, but are no longer carried out because of the far reaching ill effects of detonating a nuclear warhead in the atmosphere. Nuclear detonations in the upper atmosphere do create quite a show. 'Stuff' in the atmosphere gets ionized and turns the sky pretty colors.

The radiation generated by the nuclear warhead heats up one half of the asteroid, which causes the surface of the asteriod to vaporize. The vaporized ejecta either slow down or speed up the asteroid through Newton's 3rd law, enough to cause it to miss the Earth. Typically, a velocity change of an order of magnitude of 1 cm/s is enough, over the course of a few years, to save the Earth.

Led Zep!

Awesome!

3x7. Is that about the aspect ratio of an iPhone?

Is that woman Sun from LOST?

I could be wrong, but doesn't the plug to the left and a bit down from the fan look like FW800? And it has a little gray thing on it, which none of the other connectors do.