I think there are two projects, the 100 year starship project, and the Icarus Interstellar project. From what I've read, they have similar concerns, but are different organizations. The 100 year starship project objective is to think about how to build a starship that can travel for 100 years, reach another star and return data to earth. Icarus is interested in interstellar travel too, but seems to have a more nebulous goal, mostly about the research needed to build an interstellar ship.

But, we already have a failing missile defense system. The Memorial Richard M. Perle Missile Defense system that is deployed in Alaska to protect us from North Korea and Iran. The last report I read said the system had never had a successful intercept without a transponder on the target.

I don't think we need two failing missile defense system. That's just starting down the slippery slope of competing, failing missile defense systems. If one isn't enough, then two won't be enough and pretty soon you're spending 20% of GDP just on failing missile defense systems and there's nothing left to fund Homeland security.

I've got a similar setup at home. I've got my basic OpenAFS home directory as a starting point, but I finally got things to work fairly well by a combination of a KDEHOME that points to a machine local filesystem and symlinks out of the networked directory to the machine local filesystem.

It seems like every release has another service that assumes every home directory is a local hard drive and everybody needs to run background services that can't properly share files in their home directories. (Like a "personal" copy of mysqld...)

I worked in Houston on the Shuttle software verification simulator from 1982 to 1984. The simulator was about 4.5 million lines of 370 BAL and was connected to a redundant set of Shuttle flight computers (AP-101s) through 2 system 370 channels, one for inbound data and one for (mostly) outbound data. The IBM 3033 had been installed shortly before I started in Houston and was a replacement for the IBM System 360 Mod 75's that had run the Apollo missions. The mod 75s were serial numbers 1, 4, and 5 (if I remember correctly). The machine with serial number one was given to the Smithsonian, so you may be able to see it there.

The AP-101's were space qualified, radiation hardened, pieces of hardware with core memory that booted off a mag tape. It had 64K 32 bit words of main memory and 128K 32 bit words of instruction memory. The Primary Avionics Software System was written in a language called HAL/S (The reference book is sitting on my desk now). There was an Assembler kernel that supported the PASS. I wouldn't say the AP-101 was related to the System 360 except that it was register based.

Between the GPS capabilities of the phones and the beam steering capabilities of the cell tower antennas, disabling cell phone conversations in moving vehicles could probably be done at the towers.

If I remember an article out of Scientific American properly, the cell towers use phase array transmitters to aim the beams to cut down on power requirements.

OH NO, what shall he do now.
Attacking climate change was his stepping stone to national prominence...
His life is ruined, ruined I tell you.