Something like this maybe: http://www.forensicgenealogy.info/images/train_wreck_replica.jpg

Oh yeah...I forget the little issue of having to buy a Mac - which I did, mainly so I could do iOS development. Unfortunately I bought it before I realised that you can't put programs you write yourself on your iPad without, as you say, overcoming a lot of barriers and paying the annual Apple developer tax. I'm still amazed at how Draconian it is...I don't have a problem with the AppStore business model per se, but Apple should at least allow a developer to install a permanent profile on their device for their own apps.

Not sure about the other platforms, but on iOS it's even worse than it sounds. Even if you pony up the $99 to Apple, you can still only create a provisioning profile that let's you run your own app on your own device for 3 months. At the end of 3 months, you have to do it over again. If your $99 annual subscription expires, you're no longer able to run your own app on your own device. Of course you can publish via the Appstore, but for a homebrew program, it's almost certain Apple aren't going to approve it.

Looking forward to the sequel http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/space-2099-television-remake-288601

It was also fictional and still FTL. I didn't think scientific accuracy was too important...whatever that means in a show where, you know, the moon blasts out of orbit and wanders round the universe.

In Space:1999, the Alcubierre warp-drive was known as the Queller Drive. There was an episode about this exact subject (the drive killing everyone) in the first season episode, Voyager's Return: http://www.fanderson.org.uk/epguides/spaceyr1eg3.html#Episode%20Twelve. In an almost unbelieveable coincidence, I happened to be watching it at the exact moment this Slashdot story came in. Spooky.

Right, and that strategy has certainly never worked for Microsoft before. Oh, wait...