The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009

An A.I. researcher lists the Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009 - along with the corresponding reality! There's exploding iPods, the uproar over "bombing" the moon, and even a flesh-eating military robot!

But in each case, he supplies some much-needed perspective. Despite a few cases of exploding iPod batteries, "These incidents are incredibly rare." And during the moon collision, "the rocket stage weighs around two tons, while the Moon weighs in at a 73,477,000,000,000,000,000 tons..."

And while the military's new flesh-eating robot "even comes with a chainsaw, perhaps to help it slice us up into more manageable pieces, before it feasts upon our flesh..." the reality is: it's a vegetarian.

"Desecration of the dead is against the laws of war -- and plant matter is a much better fuel source anyway."