Yes, I am aware of this. Many homes in my vicinity have well water.

I'd always assumed that residential wells had some form of backup: either a generator to provide the electricity, or some sort of manual pump which, while it wouldn't provide full running water, would at least provide some water in an emergency--thus making external electricity far less essential. I could be, and probably am, wrong. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.

I pretty much completely agree with the rest of your post.

“Electric is generally required for delivery of water and/or heat in some fashion.”

How’s that? If you happen to have electric heat, I guess the latter (but there’s lots of alternatives: natural gas, wood, fuel oil, LP gas, ...). But I really don’t see how it’s required for delivery of water. Maybe necessary to power the pumping station, but not at the home level...

and this is a bad thing?

Well, I think this cable looks better than this one. The solid black is much nicer-looking than the ugly gray curvy bit and red logo. The one looks like a cable should, the other just looks like a blob.

Don’t worry, you can find it too, even if you choose not to.

I see you’ve managed to pull an excellent definition for “the accepted age convention” out of your ass. The accepted age convention by everyone else is ... wait for it...13-19!

so? Teen-aged is generally considered to be thirTEEN through nineTEEN. That’s why you can find legal teen porn.

'It's called "inter-species erotica", bucko.'

FTFM

Is there any real evidence that progress is accelerated by extreme restrictions on replication?

“Rule 1: Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.” Sounds like placing the quotation mark after the period is the right thing to do. Or did I miss something?

All lesbians are infertile? News to me. And probably to many of them...

Nah, bone is not meat and rattan is not a tree. Though I guess it does grow on trees so there’s that.

Well, with a sufficiently broad definition....

I'm not exactly super-knowledgeable in this area. Maybe it would happen anyway. Maybe it just wouldn't be an EMP in the conventional sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse#Characteristics_of_nuclear_EMP actually seems more relevant than my previous link; it indicates that at least two of the three EMP events are caused by interaction with the Earth's magnetic field rather than the atmosphere, so I'm certainly wrong about the "why it would [not] happen", if not the "whether it would happen"

You don't get EMP without the atmosphere. I'm not sure, but I don't think the ship's atmosphere would be enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion#EMP_generation

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