Society is humorous

Society:
-$15, 602, 022, 489, 829, 821, 422, 840, 226 for what? Why to build a Death Star of course! A complete and utter waste of time, absolutely! So why not try and find out. :D
-50% of charges against Pirate Bay dropped right at the second day of court. Hurray!!! Prosecutor Håkan Roswall had to drop all charges relating to “assisting copyright infringement”, so the remaining charges are simply ‘assisting making available’. “Everything related to reproduction will be removed from the claim,” he said.
And it gets better: Norwegian Minister Wants to Legalize File-Sharing. ISPs have criticized IFPI’s move, and Pirate Bay’s spokesman Peter Sunde said that “the crazy people behind IFPI should be stopped.” Bård Vegar Solhjell, Minister of Education and Research in Norway sides with Peter in this assessment, as he vouches for the legalization of file-sharing.
-Deserted 'Battleship Isle' may become heritage ghost ship. Hashima, 19 km southwest of Nagasaki port, is popularly called Gunkanjima ("Battleship Island") because its cluster of buildings looks like the former Imperial navy warship Tosa.
-Argentina expels Holocaust bishop. During a television interview the British-born bishop claimed there were no gas chambers and no more than 300,000 Jews died in concentration camps – rather than the widely accepted figure of six million.
-Why the Survival Car died an early death. Today most of the Survival Car's features - from padded dashes and collapsible steering columns to reflective licence plates - are standard. Crandell's creations, once a rebuke to the recalcitrant car companies of Detroit, are today preserved there at the Henry Ford Museum.

Science:
-First liquid water may have been spotted on Mars. The controversial observation could be explained by the mission's previous discovery of perchlorate salts in the soil, since the salts can keep water liquid at sub-zero temperatures. Researchers say this antifreeze effect makes it possible for liquid water to be widespread just below the surface of Mars, but point out that even if it is there, it may be too salty to support life as we know it.
-Sun-powered device converts CO2 into fuel. The energy provided by the sunlight transformed the carbon dioxide and water vapour into methane and related organic compounds, such as ethane and propane, at rates as high as 160 microlitres an hour per gram of nanotubes. This is 20 times higher than published results achieved using any previous method, but still too low to be immediately practical.
-Found: Pieces of space rock once seen heading for Earth. For the first time, scientists have detected a space rock ahead of a collision with Earth, watched it streak through the atmosphere, and then recovered pieces of it.

Humor:
Between humour and reality: Atlantis spotted near Madeira. It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down. A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary.
-Goat detained over armed robbery. No, not in the US yet. But in Nigeria. Vigilantes In Lagos took the beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.