I think the rationale behind landing on objects in our Solar System disappeared once it was clear we weren't going to find intelligent life there.

Space mining or interstellar travel may have a purpose, landing on an inhospitable rock/sulphuric acid lake or whatever seems entirely pointless as an end in itself.

It's no worse than extrapolating Moore's Law into "we'll have AI in thirty years time because the computing power available will dwarf the sum of all the puny human brains".

I think "impossibly expensive" would be more accurate.

Why aren't people like that convicted of fraud, theft and the rest, sent to jail and never allowed to run a business again?

Rather than being held up as heroes on slashdot.

I'm guessing they're being disruptive, which seems to excuse any sort of lawbreaking and skullduggery.

Exactly. if Minecraft was as ridiculously slow and unusable as suggested above, no one would be playing it at all.

I've only ever seen my kids play it a bit, and I can't see the attraction, but they manage perfectly well on a low cost family laptop.

Saying "truth is socially constructed" is not the same as saying "facts are socially constructed".

So if most scientists say that Taylor Swift is a better singer than Lady Gaga, if you're a Lady Gaga fan you should shoot yourself.

Something like that.

No, it doesn't.

Most people reading a summary expect it to make internal sense without having to go off and look things up.

You are assuming that the scientists are always right.

By that definition every McDonalds employee is of above-average intelligence.

While not impossible, it seems unlikely.

You can't argue with facts like that.

Who wouldn't want to be able to download a spare screen from the internet on demand?

I thought the French didn't even have a word for entrepreneur?