Ada tells all her men that, until...

You are about to see a black-hole, forever...

Why is this a federal charge? ...believe individual departments should be paying for them.

because "red" counties treat new taxes like Ebola.

"Does this planet name make my gas giant look giant?"

Maybe that's how humans evolved: Drunken apes selected the goofiest and silliest partners, eventually leading to humans. No true ape would tolerate Justin Beiber.

Unobtainium has been obtained? Now it's "Misnamedium".

Learn to interact with people. Learn empathy, learn communications skills...

This is Slashsparta! [*kerplunk*]

"Cool"? No. Nerds often want to work for an interesting and technically challenging start-up, NOT a "cool" start-up. Craig Newmark's approach is more to my style than say Twitter.

It's unhip, bland, outdated, but will probably outlast other sites, seeing how the herd transition from MySpace to FaceBook to Twitter to BorgFace (or whatever comes next) steps on the prior one. Craigslist is like Latin: it can't go out of style because it was never in style (in the post-Columbus era, at least). He has mooned and outlasted "cool".

Few accuse Craig of being "cool", except maybe in an eastern meditative libertarian nerd kind of way.

"Pale Moon" is one possible alternative fork. Anybody want to recommend others?

Stars traveling at that speed sound pretty deadly to me.

If there are gas giants around such a star, they may pick up some microbes along the way and these microbes may have sufficient protection in the lower atmosphere.

But I imagine an Earth-like planet would be heavily abused by fast encounters with nebula's, dust, and debris encountered along the way.

If they pick up life along the way, I'd bet on it hanging out in gas giants, not rocky planets. (Although such life may periodically drift from a gas giant to rocky siblings to repopulate them during the "good years" via comets etc.)

Hey, way to overreact.

"I explained the free software ethos, in terms of both beer and speech, she got it, and said that's what she wanted."

You are so fucking full of shit.

Fucking neckbeards.

"Honey, I just discovered a planet and I'm going to name it after you. An entire planet."

I am in higher demand than ever...But will it last?

The future of tech is unpredictable. Save up an emergency stash of funds just in case, especially if you are a parent.

For example, if somebody invents a GUI standard that displaces the messy convoluted HTML-based stack currently used for UI's, then programming could be greatly simplified and demand could stall for a good while.

Ya never know.

This makes the 'revelations' of Galileo rather comical in retrospect.

How so? Galileo was working on the problem of the actual relationships of planets to each other, not so much sky-position prediction, which was more or less a "solved" problem at the time.