Remember: seawater ruins everything.

There needs to be a capture system at the landing site. This could be something as simple as a slightly conical pit about two-thirds as deep as the stage is long, with "soft" sides. This could include a net that gets thrown over the stage right after touchdown.

The best passwords are the random ones generated by password managers, but the silly rules prevent you from using them. They also prevent people from using secure "personal words" like that weirdly named village you passed through once on vacation. All passwords-by-rule tend to deteriorate to obvious word with initial capital with a 0 or a 1 on the end.

"This also has the wonderful effect of constantly reminding me of roughly how many months i've worked for this shithole company, as if I needed a reminder."

But as your password pique causes its assets to shuffle off to Nigeria, you won't be working there much longer.

What would keep an ocean on Pluto from freezing? On the icy moons of gas giants, there are tidal forces, but what is there to warm Pluto?

We don't need to stop watching their programs. We can torrent them.

We're talking about a reboot from apocalypse but yes, dams are the most robust infrastructure our civilization has built so far, and most likely to survive major disaster somewhere in the world. Then there's always the "Lucifer's Hammer" scenario with some nuclear plant.

You can get a huge, willing supply of them for almost nothing, and they're so easy to dispose of at the end of the project.

This employee is not going to be fired either, because that would offend still another precious little identity group.

This would start with the same hydromechanical power that preceded the industrial revolution: small dams providing direct mechanical power for mills and machinery. At the same time, you can smelt metals with wood, After initial reboot, being able to machine metals and draw wire would lead to hydroelectricity.

Christianity has long ago admitted its past mistakes, and thrives in cultures whose secular liberals endlessly rake over the evils of the past. Not so with that other religion that dogs our headlines.

To bring in some News For Nerds relevance, the Vatican made up for its treatment of Galileo by setting up its own observatory, which in modern times has stayed on the front wave of astronomical technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...

The irony is that to get this very facility built, Rome had to wage another crusade against the pitchfork-waving Greens.

Does the algorithm account for the fact that the Troll designation is applied by some specific person who (a) has mod points, (b) strongly disagrees with a given post and (c) is in many cases part of a group who is looking for antagonists to some cause that group really believes in.

Tea bag?

Your Britishness permit is hereby revoked.

Clay tablets, then. Fire actually improves their durability.

The true potential of GMO is changes to the human genome. Being able to update your genetic firmware in place - no waiting for your offspring to express a desired trait - is so cool that I totally wouldn't mind having to wear a tattooed label whenever I visit California.