But don't you understand? The terrorists killed twelve people! Twelve! Never again (until we need more powers). Now, bend over.

No, no, this is delicate equipment. Unplug it, wait 30 seconds, and plug it back in.

Laika had to go somewhere.

With all those Venutian women that Bud and Lou left behind, I won't be needing underwear for long anyway!

Maybe it's just chrome, but I've never seen this site as broken as it currently is. I had to reply to a comment, because the fail of css has all kinds of crap covering up the button to let me make a top level comment.

Knowing what failed is valuable. Now instead of engineers looking at rockets and/or parachutes, they can concentrate on the panel deployment system. Maybe they overlooked something and it was more easily fouled by dust than they thought.

Scrolled down for this. Walking to school with Mommie was a kindergarden thing for me in the 70s. From 1st grade on, I walked to school or the bus stop all by my ittle bitty sef!

Oh and yes, no cel phone of course. If you were in real trouble you could find some parent who was out in their garden, and ask to use the phone.

Bruises heal and bones mend, but psychological damage can last a lifetime. The pen is mightier than the sword. etc

I too grew up with that saying. But if I could do it all over again I would have punched somebody in the face, got the crap beaten out of me & maybe suspended, and the kids might direct their words at a softer target.

Except they don't vet the operators and happily direct young women into rape mobiles

Not at all. One of the last footholds of Flash is the ability to write a Native App for iOS and Android with Adobe AIR. What Steve Jobs was talking about was the Flash Browser plug-in -- which was unviable as a mobile browser experience. Hell, Google bent over backwards to give Adobe everything they claimed Apple denied them and couldn't get it to run in a stable or usable manner on Android.

And a boring life lived with every opportunity for fun, pleasure and adventure "given up" for safety while so many times, having never gotten anything out of it but regret for passing up something you actually wanted.

Knowing that the Federation would would send a veritable Armada of Science vessels to feast upon

"Words cannot express how sorry we are. Next time, we will make sure the backdoor is much less obvious."

Yes, anything that puts science to a face and makes it approachable, normal and something to be admired or respected is always a good thing. In the US, so much emphasis is put on wealth that we have seen an astronomical rise in MBAs and JDs while STEM programs have languished by comparison.