Still go back and do the math.

say .1% of stars in the galaxy are like our own, and .1% of those stars have planets in just the right configuration, and .1% of those planets have plant life, and .1% of those worlds have intelligent life.

Then in this galaxy alone there are 100,000's of different sentient species. Even if they are separated over 100 million years of time odds are we are not alone right now.

Keyless ignition has made it easier. Now I only remove items from my pockets as needed.

Except my smartphone is my only phone. My sister and her husband only have cell phones. If you need a cell phone anyways why pay for another?

With a smartphone you still need just those things.

I love those break down prices that assume assembly and tooling cost zero dollars per unit.
The people who spout off those numbers as factual are funnier. Apples iPod profit margins are well known around at around 30%. Every new model is new tooling machines.

It is why the shotgun approach to product development is bleeding everyone other than Apple dry.

We called the electric company once as a branch had fallen on the line and was being held up. It was a y shaped branch that had broken from the tree above and balanced perfectly on the line. We got fined for calling in a problem that didn't exist. The inspector knocked the branch off the line and then said it was the wind. We had a witness to that so the fine disappeared.

In NY power companies are only required to trim trees once every 20 years. Most of the trees that grow reach full height in 10 years.

You do realize most aerials are aluminum right?

Not only that but in free air both basically double their current handling loads. So you get situations were a 200amp rated line is being tied into a 200amp line that is half the size coming from the power company.

Once The power companies are allowed to massively over rate the cables compared to what building codes allow. think how much money they save by using cables half the size.

While I agree in principal. Even a lesuire society will still be doing things. They just won't be doing things to survive.

Also it has to be done slowly. As we need to wait until after generation X starts dying of old age before we can make serious changes.

Personally I like getting baby boomers rules up about equal rights and then point out that women weren't allowed to have credit cards in the use in their own name until 1974. The older a person is the more likely they gloss over base facts and assume it was always that way.

you do realize even with both accidents the orbiter had a lower death rate compared to soyuz right?

That is the number of people killed compared to launched. of course the difference is a fraction of a percent.

The USA has always been about beating and stealing from other people to sell to some else. If you believe otherwise I have a bridge in San fransicso I can sell.

Or do the names Rockefeller Vanderbilt or Carnegie mean nothing to you.

the orbiter was designed to not only take thing into space but to return them. With the thought being instead of wasting money by letting it burn up in atmosphere by brining it back down for repair/ upgrades.

I have said many times before the last shuttle mission to the hubble shouldn't have been maintenance but to box it back up and bring it home. The Orbiter is the only space craft designed to due something like that.

Instead we waste billions on letting valuable tech burn back up and clutter up the orbits with garbage.

It isn't gravity and interia that tells the CGI from reality. it is the background. Not sure if it is depth, or shadows, or some combination of them. I can always tell when a green screen and CGI is being used to draw the backgrounds. Now if it is the complete background it is always obvious and jarring. If they use lots of props and use the green screen to draw the sky, or distant backgrounds that depends on what is in those backgrounds.

That being said my eyes don't work for 3D tech it gives me a headache. so may be they are trying to use fake 3D tech to give illusion that simply doesn't translate for my mind.

You just want to see slave leia saying you are her only hope, as the "play" descends into a porno.

Then they should code the tests into the next call of duty game. They can call it. Call of Duty :Prometheus. And features alien worlds and starships.

you do realize that even plastic notes require inks rights? how else do you dye the plastic? It is just infused much earlier in the process. Instead of being done towards the end is it closer to the beginning.