And unjust as well. It can be argued that the Cosa Nostra occasional does positive things. I'm still waiting for a single positive outcome from Scientology.

Does this mean I can go after Justice Scalia for pushing "Corporations are people" leading to the raft of mischief we've endured recently? Let's get busy!

It would take submerging them in a Bose-Einstein Condensate...

There seems to be a point of diminishing return when slowing down Government... (see: U.S. Congress.)

Ahhhhh, the tropical beaches of Vancouver... sorry, getting a frosty Moose-Head, delivered by a tanned Canuck cabana boy just makes my head hurt, Ayyy?

Yeah, silly communists! You be more like America where we listen to our... Oh?! really? Never mind :-)

Plagiarize, no, no, no... Research!

Sadly, human beings desperately want the world to fit their orthodoxies. The fallacy is that the world is bigger and more complex than any orthodoxy, and that trying to put the world in an ideological box, whether it be religious, geopolitical or sociological demands that people heavily filter reality to see only the part that fit's in their grand scheme of things.

The brave mind starts with nothing, and let's the world inform them. This demands rigor, patience and brutal honesty. You have to be willing to discover yourself completely mistaken, forced to go back to the drawing board as soon as the facts say as much. People love their world views more than the truth, and that is the down side of magical thinking.

It would be really easy to go for the cheap shot and say the euphemism most global climate change advocates are rooting for when speaking of "Deniers" is not "Heretic", but "Deluded". That said , I think there's an important place for deniers, they keep the scientific majority honest, pressure them to dot 'I's and cross 'T's. The problem has never been deniers, but corporate interests who use the denier's debate no matter it's validity, to justify continuing full steam ahead in crashing the environment in the name of quarterly profits.

Scholarly debate is essential to good science. Cherry picking conversations, data, and spending millions on promoting FUD, is bad social policy, economics and global resource management.

Just because the "scientific facts" bear out a round earth, evolution, relativity and anthropic global climate change, doesn't make these things either a religion, or a conspiracy. Consider instead that the huge, network of supporting research simply means that the probability of these things not being so, is now vanishingly small. Sorry if the truth isn't convenient. The good news is that there are solutions to current problems that open opportunities even for deniers, so we can all still walk away winners.

Friend, just having been around long enough to hear Bill Gates say "640K of RAM should be enough for anyone..."(apocryphal), the future human being may move energy and matter back and forth at will and your absurdity will seem as common as alkaline batteries to us. You just can't wisely make such presumptions.

Especially true considering the moon is rich in titanium and aluminum, and has no atmosphere to fight against and a tiny fraction of the gravity well. The moon is the better source for raw materials.

Actually I was thinking rather than my name, the message "We apologize for the inconvenience..."

Please tell me someone is working on a functional politician module! Our current analog devices suck to high heaven.

Not to mention the global "Fly-Eye" video you could collect real-time!

There will eventually be no job that a machine can't do better than human beings. That's the unarguable extrapolation of an asymptotic acceleration of technology. By itself, this isn't a problem. It only becomes a problem inside a Puritan ethic, that people are only worth what they produce, combined with an economic system that concentrates wealth at the top.

This process could create a society of human abundance, a golden age of human advance and evolution. However we're currently nailed to rails that will elevate a fleeting small handful of people to godlike wealth and power, and a devastated, oppressed slave class comprising the rest of humanity.

The future is coming, the only question is whether or not it'll be friendly to being human, and whether the feared terminators that might oppress us will be autonomous intellects, or the strike forces of human despots. We've made a very poor showing to date. The time to grow out of our primate baggage is short.

Any other conversation about this process is short sighted and misses the titanic transformative forces in process.