Is the "strong desire" for particular things genetic? For instance, programming is fun for me, and was fun the first time I tried it. But I know many people who consider it some kind of punishment.

It is easier to detect planets with tight orbits because you don't have to look at it very long to see that there is a planet. For an alien to detect Earth, they would have to observe Sol for a year. For them to detect Jupiter, they would have to observe Sol for 12 years.

That's real horrorshow, droog.

No, 24% of kids want to run the cyber-police state they know is coming.

Too bad the Millenials didn't get a cool label, like Generation X.

My rule is, honestly try to figure out how much time you think it will take to write the code--and then double it.

I don't think Gravity falls under the category science fiction. If I was to make a movie about a fictional accident in a fictional submarine, would that be science fiction? People can make movies about space now and it doesn't have to be considered science fiction if all of the technology is contemporary.

Apollo 13

Human's made a couple of big mistakes when it comes to math. We should have a base 12 system and we should use Tau instead of Pi. Math would be so much easier.

I'm not quite sure what this means. This poll covers all 24 hours, so it seems to be able to mean something for people whether they are at work or not at work. For instance, when I'm working on a personal project on the weekend it holds true that my most productive time period, 8AM to 12PM, is the same as when I am at work. But let's say my most productive period was between 8PM to 12AM (which was true when I was in college) and I worked a normal 9 to 5 job. I would still put down 8PM to 12AM as my most productive time. Now you might say, "How can you compare job productivity to personal productivity?" Well, the poll is about potential productivity, it's about how I judge the time period when my mind is capable of doing the most and best work.

Dumbed down! Are you kidding? The metric system is so simple and intuitive a two year old child can understand it! The American system of football fields and elephants is so complex and convoluted it takes a genius to get any real work done with it!

Fortunately killer robots don't just grab people by the head and crush them, they like to throw them around first, and they usually throw people near some conveniently discarded weapon.

You forgot "hit weak point for massive damage!"

Having first learned to write manuscripts on a typewriter, I mimic the same style when writing a novel on the computer; using Courier New in manuscript format, underlining where I want italics and double-spacing everything so there is room to write comments on a hard copy. Some younger people have proof-read my work and actually thought that was the way I wanted it published. I had to explain that as an old-fogy, the presentation style is the last thing I do.

Here's a shameless plug for my latest novel, where you can see from the sample the suggested format for ebooks as specified by Amazon.

How about if the elimination of anonymity also eliminates the possibility of individual liberty? If the government has sufficient knowledge of any individual, they will be able to control that individuals life to the point where they can find something to charge against them and arrest them at will. And don't tell me you won't have anything to worry about if you obey the law, if all of your actions are scrutinized they will find something. The lack of anonymity tips power so much into the government's hands that privacy is now necessary for freedom, and we need to find a way to guarantee it for ourselves or we are condemning humanity to perpetual servitude.