Put your data on SD chips, more than one chip in case there are errors, in a decent metal/glass vacuum thermos bottle in your fire-proof safe. Bury another thermos bottle in your back yard. One of them will survive.

RTFA. There isn't enough fossil fuel in the world to equal the effects of the that extinction. The rate of acidification has oi taper off soon. Another false doomsday headline masking a contrary scientific finding.

Easy to invent a language, hard to invent a real and useful language. Language is tied to the structure of the brain and its speech, visual and motive centers. Learning a useful language involves touching, experiencing and moving. Unless the parties to a verbal exchange share these fundamental experiences, communication is ambiguous. That's why languages evolve slowly over time along with populations, and they stagnate in isolated communities.

There may be a hardwired language-based operating system in the human brain, something like "Snowcrash". Esperanto follows most of those rules. Klingon does not.

As an interesting tidbit, new words and expressions tend to be invented and spread primarily by young teen females. Youwzah!

They can be made safe without government regulation. They can carry transponders. They can carry radar reflectors and show up on airport radars. Over time I'm sure regular flyways will be established, the same as footpaths and roadways were in the past. These can be mapped to 3D GPS. All of this is current technology.

The trick is NOT killing every possible new tech because of some imagined danger, but ironing out the bugs. That is exactly what Amazon wants to do.

By the the standards you claimed, we would not have air travel because of the possibility of 9-1-1.

Witch Central Delivery, a proposed new startup, will compete with Amazon to deliver mail by owls and packages by eagles. They will not be remote controlled (but under carefully supervised spells) and will not have to answer to the FAA, unless the FAA proposes that owls and eagles all be grounded until they can come up with a bipartisan regulation covering birds.

This should be a big improvement over the existing government approved drones, which are primarily used to carry bombs and surveillance prior to kill orders.

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Great comment. Thanks.

The effect of CO2 declines logarithmically. The first 20ppm CO2in the atmosphere has a greater effect
than the following 300ppm. The incremental effect of increasing CO2at the present 385ppm level is almost immeasurable. Why don't climate "science" articles acknowledge the actual physics of CO2? It's lower now than it was before there were human beings to invent acronyms like AGW.

This is a political paper quoting the druthers of have-not nations against the more affluent nations, the wishes of feminists and substituting "projected" consequences for real data. The ostensible remedies with 1 degree vs 2 degrees all seem to require massive redistribution of wealth from the US and a clamp on US energy production. There is no mention of such excellent energy solutions a liquid metal thorium reactors.

This is exactly the kind of garbage that passes for climate science.

There is a lot of bad info here. I'm a tax practitioner. It should not be a big problem for the average EU person. Here is the current US law on foreign income for US citizens:

Foreign Earned Income Exclusion - 911
Worldwide income of a U.S. citizen is subject to U.S. tax. In addition, a foreign coun-try can tax foreign income. Without any relief, the income could be subjected to dou-ble taxation. The Code provides two relief provisions:
(1) The foreign tax credit, which allows a taxpayer to claim a credit against U.S. taxes for foreign taxes paid, and
(2) The foreign earned income exclusion, which allows a taxpayer to exclude for-eign earned income.
Foreign earned income is compensation from personal services rendered in a foreign country during periods while the bona fide residence or 330-day test is satisfied. Sec-tion 911 requires that the bona fide resident status must be for an uninterrupted period that includes a full year.
The exclusion is limited to $99,200 (in 2014) per year. If a husband and wife both qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion, each has a separate exclusion availa-ble, and community property rules do not apply.
Note: If the foreign earned income exclusion is elected, the foreign tax credit cannot be claimed for the foreign tax allocated to the excluded income.

The antennas look like UHF gear, not cell phone gear. Same with the handi talkies.

The statistics are accurate. Dead people score zero METs.

Easy. They will not have valid credit cards.

Lack of a powder magazine does not a safe ship make.

Whatever powers those lasers and railguns has to pack the equivalent energy. Nukes, jet fuel or anti-matter converters all have containment issues. You can't pack all that power in a small space safely.

Then there are torpedoes. Every navy needs them. They carry explosives.

Contrary to popular opinion, correct dosage of testosterone does not enlarge the prostate or decrease fertility. However, if you have prostate cancer with cells that have testosterone binding, you will be feeding the cancer cells.