LEO orbits below 1000km do not have long life times. Without fuel it is more like a few years. ISS does have a lot of drag but it also has a lot of mass. Most LEO sats use solar so they tend to be in the high drag range as well.

What the hell is wrong with walking around outside? What is so dam dangerous that walking around at 30? 20? or 16 years of age makes you any safer that say 10 and 6. I

The is this really cool invention we had way back before it wasn't cool to let kids play on your lawn. It is called don't fucking click the link.

well our bus stop was 7km away. And there was a lot of broken glass, and of course bare feet and snow and stuff.

On a more seruous note. The city must be very safe if the police don't have anything better to do than be a Chief Wiggum level dumb arse.

Whoosh.

Because if you don't want it, no one else will? Don't be an idiot. Let the younger more interesting people play.

In one of my classes for 6th semester students at a university, we needed them to convert the format of files. Over half the class changed the file name suffix and had no idea why that didn't work!

Yea the "younger generation grew up with computers" is total rubbish. They know how to put a dvd or bluray into a xbox or something. But when it comes to using computers and technology as the tools they are, they have no idea.

I was smart enough to figure what answer the teacher wanted, did that and had plenty of free time to do what i wanted. Guess your not as smart as you think you are.

Spot the patent attorney. "Patents are working!". Yea right. Oh it really isn't obvious? Only if your a fucking lawyer.

My great great great grandfather use to hate coming home and getting entertained by these new fangled technology things. Seems way more work than its worth, like this pong video game. Why would anyone want that?

Yea like we all are the same and the *only* time we ever do anything is after work. Now get off my lawn you old geezer. I want the kids to play on it.

Little late to this party. But bitrorrent is *not* pirate bay. I notice nothing about my torrent access with pirate online or offline or anything. And where i am the ISPs actively advertise that they don't interfere with torrents as a feature. The world is not the US.

And well it doesn't matter what the providers want to sell their content for. It is already available for about the cost of an internet connection. That is the price the market will bear.

Providing BI may well save money from the massive cost welfare system incurs to determined who should be getting anything.

mdsolar is that you...

Doesn't change the fact that they are quite impossible. Interatomic bonds are simply not strong enough by many many orders of magnitude.

If your money is on solar etc.. then you really need your money in power storage. Either massive "cheap" batteries (liquid metal batteries) or something. Pump storage is not a solution to the general problem.

Thorium reactors give no real advantage over reprocessing U fuel cycles. It is the same waste. They are a long way off, even if you started today, and have a lot of critical design aspects that are completely untested and unproven.