Look up Delta V and get back to us with your handy 'little' spacecraft.

They were purposely not invited. Then they were sort of not invited (Read the TFA, it's weird). Now they've invited everyone else to join their party.

If it's your party, you get to decide on the decorations and the cuisine.

Oh please. We have weather forecasters and politicians to deal with. A Sports Announcer is going to be like a 3V LED hooked up to house mains compared to those two.

It's dark, silly.

Not unless human has the goal of getting it very far by artificially keeping it alive and multiplying.

Do you think the bacteria producing insulin have any snowball-in-hell chance to survive on their own?

Haven't realized? Are you kidding?

They fully realized it. But they'd be first admitting to eating babies alive before they'd willingly talk about that. And they'll fight tooth and nail against anything that could come close to merging "phone" and "data". The reason is very simple: Phone IS already data to them. But data they can sell very, very, VERY expensively.

Ponder for a moment how much data a voice call is. Realize just how well it can be compressed.
Ponder for a moment how much you pay per minute for cell plans.
Now take a wild guess how expensive a kb of that data is for you.

Multiply by a few thousand and you come close to the real value of "voice data" to your carrier.

There are of course natural entities that are lethal, but they are lethal as a by-product. No parasite, no virus, has the death of its host as its primary goal. Usually, the host dies from the unpleasant side effects of the parasite's primary goal: self preservation and propagation.

If you turn those objectives upside down (i.e. primary goal: Maximum damage, secondary goal: sustain existence) you sure as hell can increase the potential for lethal effects!

Actually drugs would be a lot more desirable without limitations that force people to resort to less and less sensible routes to cook them.

Who said I have to use my body to multiply them?

On a completely unrelated note, I have here a new breath mint you just HAVE to try...

Hey Bozo: Check out this Boeing Bad Boy.

It's everything the Shuttle should have been (second time's a charm). They know how to build things.

So does SpaceX. Unfortunately, the winner will likely be the one with the most political clout (YoYoDyne), but engineering wise, they both are good designs and both companies can execute.

The best we can hope for is that SpaceX gets enough tossed at them to keep going.

That's actually a silly argument. We don't have to get off this rock. We could learn how to play nice with this very comfortable spaceship that just popped up out of nowhere. Even if we want to get off this rock, we don't have to do it just now. We could use the money for more important things or just spend less.

No, the real reason to go into space (and the ocean, don't forget the ocean) is because it's cool. The rest is just filler for a grant proposal.

There is exactly one reason why they do that: If they don't, they can kiss the storage business abroad good bye. Nobody would ever even think about touching any of their storage services with a ten foot pole, and, if sufficiently security conscious, contemplate moving away from MS wherever possible. At the very least in the server area, if possible at clients, too.

And I'm not that certain whether companies in the US would agree with it either.

There's no universal method for constructing a prior. It's a big source of potential error.

Don't they just have to go into an monastery or something like that?

They are popular with users, but very unpopular with studios. Simply for the same reason: Lack of control over what the user can actually do. It's kinda hard to sell addons when users can simply create them themselves. How do you sell DLC when users simply go "fffft, gimme an hour to code it an keep your overpriced shit!"

Well, after all is said and done, what remains is how you'll be remembered. Provided you give a shit about whether you will be missed at your funeral or whether people come only to see with their own eyes whether the asshole really finally bit it.