False. Any salt is easily reduced to its component ions by exposing it to water.

Do you have any idea how close a tolerance you must have in order to have millions of bricks and have any pair of them mate cleanly, easily, and with sufficient clutch to not immediately fall off? And have multiple "legal" connection locations on each brick? And permit multiple bricks attach with equal spacing and equivalent strength?

We are talking a process capability that rivals, if not vastly exceeds, most aerospace manufacturers. No disrespect to the rocket science guys, but we are talking tight tolerances on small parts.

Clearly their first mistake was being born poor.

Seriously kids, don't get born poor. It really stinks.

Half the population will always have sub-median intelligence. That is what median means.

That said, I believe that we will have a stronger society if we focus on elevating the lower educated to a higher educated state. I do not want to create a permanent underclass of semi- or un-skilled labor supporting the higher class's state of near permanent leisure.

Let's be honest. The self respecting nerds left /. years ago.

Fun you should ask. It seems there is detailed law covering just that case. http://www.childcarelaw.org/do...

Or were you being sarcastic?

It's a fraudulent contract. How would that not be a crime?
It's an unlicensed hotel. How would that not be a crime?

White collar crimes are still crimes.

Slashdot was never good.

You have to be crazy to go. If you are crazy, they won't send you.

Or you could send a robot and save on spinning spacecraft, food, water, air, and fuel to provide/propel all the above.

FTFY.

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I have zero need for additional paper weights, door stops, and ash trays. I might be more interested when they (a) provide isotropic materials, (b) provide better precision, and (c) provide (a) and (b) at a lower cost.

Spooky. That is exactly the ratio of tau to pi.

Still off by a factor of almost 400 years. If you read the referenced paper, there is no mention of hunting large land animals or of mammoths at all. Sounds like original research (unsupported by facts, no less) on the part of the Wikipedia author.

Furthermore of all the radiocarbon dating, the most ambitious date is 1750 BCE. Still 400 years too early for J. Random Eskimo to stick a harpoon in his side. Do you have anything that suggests earlier humans or later Mammoths?