Really? You think you can create a utopia on Earth? Knock it off, just knock it off. The Earth will always have problems. Any place with humans will always have problems.

Or you could, you know, treat the number one killer of humans: aging.

The safety concerns he's referring to are some kind of catastrophic failure of the launch vehicle, resulting in the destruction of the radioactive core. Considering people get uneasy over launching RTGs, they'd certainly get hysterical over using a nuclear thermal rocket as a launch vehicle. Frankly, this space-nutter would too. Too much risk.

Because high school was all about running cost benefit analyses on space based solar power.

Kind of an inaccurate headline. "Airless" makes it sound like a vacuum...which would naturally make air cooling impossible.

Name one

Thundercats was sci-fi actually. They came to Earth from another planet. They had sophisticated machines: The Thundertank, their weapons, WilyKit and WilyKat's hoverboardsl,etc...they lived in a big cat like fortress with computers and lasers.

I know this.

Yes. Where people go, the garbage and military follows...as does everything else that comes with civilization. Obviously.

True, but the State of the Union is a notorious platform for the President to spout feel good intentions to the American people that never amount to anything. Hydrogen powered cars anyone?

I still haven't figured out why GOTO is so demonized and I've been coding for 30 years. If you find you need to use, then yes, you probably need to go back and rework your code. But let's face it: In the real world sometimes you just need to get this code out the door and working. "GOTO is bad" is just a ridiculous mantra repeated over and over with many people not even understanding why....frankly, so is "VB is bad".

I hope you're not suggesting that node.js is a language. This is the second time in the last two weeks I've seen someone say this.

In the early 80's pretty much every common computer you could get came with BASIC. It may not have been real useful in real life (well, actually it was since my first job was VB4), but I was 10 years old and teaching myself how to program. BASIC was awesome back then. It made me interested in computers.

At that range, you have to wonder enough time has elapsed since the formation of the solar system for them to have "cleared the neighborhood" around their orbits.

Perhaps they're mad as hell that we don't have sufficient gender diversity in our IT industry.