Plus the oldest of three Mars orbiters. This is to make room in the NASA planetary budget for current and new missions. The WH has proposed this before, but either NASA or Congress bypassed it.

I never got into Star Wars as much because it had less of a backstory than other scifi universes and felt "hollow".

Any great legend has that. Jackson had certain limitations and views.

I had to reread that chapter after seeing the movie. The Hobbit was written (1930s) in the middle of writing the Lord of the Rings (1910s-1950s) , before the Big Story was all fleshed out.

Genesis and The Flood were two interwoven stories with different numbers and points of view. Toklein wrote some old childrens stories intergrated imperfectly. Come on, he took over 30 years and 2000 pages, two world wars and time out for teaching. Tokelins oldest son Christopher published 14 books of rough drafts and back stories fro his father's notes.

If its a bunch of Party Kids like FaceBook in Social Netweork, would a 40+ want to work there? I a lot of cases its not so balck and white.

She had a falling out with an Unamed Executive in the TV series. I felt she was in more episodes.

Think outside the box.

Musk wants to go to Mars.

SpaceShipTwo, already six years late, wont go orbitable like Blue Origin.

Time for next over-hyped technology.

While teens may humor their parents in claiming to be more tech savy, the big drop-off in new tech adoption is over age 70 according to a PEW study. I dont know whether it is cost, learning difficulty, or conservativism. I've noted this pattern among people I know.

I thought train travel was until I poked around the web.

www.buses.org/files/ComparativeEnergy.pdf

I agree that in terms of emissions commericial flight miles are close to car miles. However I usually fly much further than I drive per trip or over a year. That jacks up my carbon contribution considerably.

Bitcoin advocates getting desperate I see. To gain credence a non-government computer currency should build a big foothold in an established economy first.

when the skin begins to sag