Okay so a revolution can stop an out of control government.

What stops an out of control corporation?

Better untrustworthy governments than irresponsible and rapacious corporations.

Actually it sounds like fascism to me.

One of socialism's (purported) goals is to reduce levels of government and government power overall in place of individual or collective power.

It's funny that the submitter chose the words "risk of armed robbery by criminals" to describe the dangers posed to grow warehouses since, by law, Federal agents are allowed to and frequently do raid Medical Marijuana stores and warehouses in states where it's legal.

Since the Feds usually kick the doors down, wave their guns around and take all the weed it seems to me that if you described the situation to someone and didn't mention that the aggressors had DEA written on their hats then the person you described it to would probably agree that it sounded like an armed robbery by criminals.

No diamonds?

They shipped him from Estonia to Atlanta? Poor guy. No crime is worth going to Atlanta.

I don't know if that was sarcastic or not so allow me to clarify. I'm not suggesting that earth or anything goes through cycles of life that are identical but go faster each time.

What I am talking about is for example how all life on earth was for a time anaerobic until the release of oxygen by aerobic creatures killed them off and other similar dieoffs including the Great Dying 250 million years ago and then that whole incident with the end of the dinosaurs.

More importantly however, and despite my efforts I can't remember the details, there have been die-offs at varying levels of life development that may be unique to our planet, or at least uncommon.

Well as I understand it earth has gone through a number of catastrophic die-offs that killed most of the life on the planet like... 7 times? According to what I read, life on earth accelerated it's evolution and development after each cataclysm and progressed faster and faster. I never see THIS being taken into account for these sorts of calculations. We assume that the time it took for life on earth to go from primordial goo to space-flight capable humans is roughly the norm. What if our evolution is slightly or massively accelerated because of these die-offs and rebirths? What if some other planet had only 5 die-offs and is lagging behind us? We may not be the first (though we could be because of the aforementioned) but we could possibly be one of the early birds despite the youth of our star.

Seven atom transistors, quantum cryptography, nuclear and weather modeling applications and journals called "Nature Nanotechnology"...

Ladies and gentlemen, if this isn't the future then what is?

My instinct tells me you're being sarcastic, but if not... holy crap on a cracker you need to get out more!

If geography allowed it and it made orbital sense to fly over a populated area during every landing, do you think the general population might be more aware and interested in space travel?

If I had an orbital vehicle streaking across the sky every month or so, I would certainly be very aware of the pace of space travel and keep it in my head for longer then I do now.

Does the general reaction by the US government (and world governments) remind everyone of the bizarre tactics and theories thrown around about communist psychics threatening US interests?

"We don't understand the danger exactly, or if there even is one, but we must be sure to have a counter to it!"

If there isn't much in the way of radiation shielding for this new module why would the astronauts want to use it at all, let alone as a frequent place for R&R?

These weren't people doing any old day-to-day job and they are regarded as heroes or at the very least special and worth getting upset over for the reason reason Americans would get upset over the death of their president. Ordinary men perhaps but doing extraordinary things not just for themselves but doing a job specifically detailed as one that benefits all of humanity (or in the case of the president, benefits the USA).

I do understand that we don't lavish this same kind of attention on leading AIDS or Cancer researchers but admittedly their job doesn't have the same frequency of explosions sheer grandeur about them.