The obvious counterargument to this is that even "unsafe" planes can be made to fly into buildings, and I'm not even a big fan of a lot of these TSA measures.

How would you feel if you got a notice saying you got a green card, but then two days later were told "sorry, just kidding."? The second batch of people might not want to celebrate just yet.

show a liberal sprinkling of alien galaxies...

Aha! So you admit it! The liberals do want illegal aliens to live here.

Really, Skylon?

I'd never trust a bastard stepchild of Skynet and the Cylons.

I'm not a big fan of a "miles driven" tax, but I think I'd prefer an odometer reading that doesn't distinguish off-road and out of country miles to having some kind of constant government mandated GPS device in my car.

They could construct it so it doesn't matter. They could just say "in order to get a license, you will pay x% of the difference in your odometer readings from year to year, period". There's no legal reason they have to care where you put those miles on.

Some problems are deceptive though. Think Fermat's Last Theorem.

Identifying innuendo, that's a hard problem.

You think there are rumblings about monopolistic practices now, imagine if the owned the whole music industry. Plus why would you want to buy the music industry? That would be like buying cattle with mad-cow disease.

It's good that we have a museum to put these historic artifacts into, but I would prefer that we have something to replace them with. That feeling is more intense when I see either a Saturn V or a LEM at one of the museums.

This is absolutely true. The most egregious example is a character from the blockbuster Sci-Fi series "South Park", a character named Kenny seems to die almost every week. Long live Mysterion!

I would be quite surprised if one was able to witness the entire event through a telescope from start to finish. I'm curious how long it takes a star to "fall into a black hole" from start to finish.

I would always enter 11/11/11 as the system date. (You would have to enter the date every time you restarted). I must have been psychic.