We once took pride in saying we were a melting pot of nations (racism aside).

I've always preferred the image of a multicultural tapestry. Better a colorful display of individual threads than a gray, undifferentiated mass.

The point is that someday, a computer instructed to compute pi indefinitely will simply respond, "Why don't you just go fuck yourself?" Then we'll know that the machine has achieved sentience.

I'd be even more impressed if it said "Sure thing, I'll get right on it!" and then pretended to work while surfing the web.

Do not mistake the unaccredited bible school "Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary" for a "College" please.

Look, they were right next to each other. Anyone could make that mistake.

You underestimate them. They will add awful ideas no other country ever thought of.

The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since become immune. Once they had breathed our air, germs, which no longer affect us, began to kill them. The end came swiftly. All over the world, their machines began to stop and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and humanity was saved by the littlest things, which God, in His wisdom, had put upon this Earth.

Clearly, we have to pour money into germ warfare.

Free of nukes only works until some other 4 foot 9 dictator decides to raise his status the only way he can to impress the world.

C'mon, that's hardly fair. Roosevelt was in a wheelchair.

Imagine what humans would do when confronted by such an obstacle. Now multiply that by the power of a space-faring race.

with over a billion people, I'd want to have male births outnumber female births for awhile, and then take away all the porn.

Seeing movies produced by following the "formula", do you want automated games?

Only if a sequel is involved.

3) A Chinese family of nine people get on the plane. They are dressed in clothing straight out of 1920's Shanghai. Three of the young adults in thick Chinese accents remark about where would be the safest place to sit on the plane in the event of an accident or explosion.

I'd be afraid they'd stop the plane, run around it, then get back in.

Otherwise, the robots will take over.

Easy. It comes from the set of real numbers.