There was a largest collider competition towards the end of the cold war. Hard to say if CERN was part of it but the LHC did get some parts cheap due to the other projects being cancelled.

Cleaning out old lab stores is always interesting. Open the wrong thing you end up up breathing hydrogen chloride. Mind you the worst I've ever found is sodium cyanide. Others have found human heads.

Nukes are unlikely. However I'd bet there are a few physics labs with poorly documented collections of radioactives.

Pretty typical for dead tree sources. Thats actualy slightly lower than the requirements the British library put in place when I wanted to look at a load of Amiga Action stuff. Also don't try and read a years worth of Amiga Action in one sitting.

Pilot salaries are fairly low these days. Still if you can get rid of them you gain room for more seats.

I don't think Airbus can build a plane that big.

Rather fewer than the number that will die if you keep letting half evolved monkeys mess with the controls.

Doubtful. In the context of industry weight is rarely much of an issue. If you high pressure vessel already weighs 50 tonnes the weight of a viewing port is unlikely to be an issue. For things like cars cost is going to be more of an issue than weight savings. For optical aplication CaF2 is mature tech and likely a better option.

Last time Airbus allowed an actual pilot to control one of their planes they crashed it into the south atlantic. Given the development cycle for planes if Airbus were to introduce such a feature it will be after the biologicals have been removed from anywhere they can cause problems.

Thing is by the standards of the average housing project that's "tuesday".

Doubtful. Even hormonal young men are capable of focusing on other things. If they are watching a DOTA game they want to see the best non rat DOTA game possible and are prepared to stop thinking about sex long enough to so.

In most physical sorts women wouldn't make the male top 200. Getting hurt isn't the problem. Female competitions seem result in injuries at much the same rate as male ones. The problem is purely that men are on average bigger faster and stronger.

Why female sports mostly exist because of tradition they provide a useful purpose in providing structure to women to exercise within and provide more sport that can be watched for those who enjoy that.

Eh its got more to do with nerds tending towards white and middle class and thus generaly being left alone by the system.

Err quite a while. The reality is that with enough effort the police can probably get you convicted of something. There are a lot of laws and you don't know them all. The last thing you want to do is make them look more closely at you.

No but I'm also going to be somewhat surprised if someone has a bunch of 1,024 MB blocks of /dev/random on their hard drive. Well I guess a few statisticians might.

In practice odds are I simply don't care. Most criminals leave far more evidence than the police actually need to get a conviction. If I can't open a file with one click I'm going to go back to looking at your bank statements for interesting payments.