Cult : A religion with less members than yours. (Ambrose Bierce)

It would be appropriate if 'peace' was based on the truth. In my experience, peace between equally matched opponents is usually based on a lie. One party says "I forgive you" or "It doesn't bother me" or "you were right" or "I agree" when they mean absolutely none of those things, but realize that someone must 'bend the knee' in order for there to be peace.

My wife has been using Transcranial Sonic Stimulation to temporarily deactivate my aural, pleasure, empathy and impulse control centers for years now.

A decent size particle accelerator placed on the moon could hit targets in earth orbit with about a 1.2 second delay between firing and impact; fairly negligible when your target is incapable of dodging (or detecting the incoming fire, for that matter). With a minimum of interference from the "vacuum" of space, a stream of charged particles at near lightspeed would at minimum wreak holy electronic havoc on any satellite, and at maximum partially vaporize it and/or shove it spinning uncontrollably into a decaying orbit.

Neither cheap nor easy to implement, but horrifically effective against any target in Earth orbit. Heck, you might even be able to justify it under the pretense that it would be fairly useless in attacking anything on the surface of the Earth.

I'd like to be paid in 1970 dollars, please. One hour at Wal-mart ( $6 ) will get me 18 gallons of gasoline.

It's not a matter of changing the laws of physics so much as it is discovering that our current understanding of physics is flawed or incomplete.

We just need to find the correct "flaw" in the laws...

From the Release:

The language Hatch was successful in getting inserted in the NASA Authorization Act does not require the new heavy-lift rocket to use solid rocket motors. But delegation members say the Utah experts they consulted say the legislation’s requirements for the heavy-lift rocket can only be realistically met by using solid rocket motors.

If NASA said "We're going with liquid fuel boosters." they would not be violating the law.
Even if NASA told ATK "Go to hell... We'll buy our rocket motors from someone else", they would not be violating the law.

The only way they'll be breaking the law is if they fail to come up with *some* method of making it work within their budget.

And gee, what a surprise that the stonecutters are telling everyone that stone bridges are the only feasible way to get a ton of lentils across the creek.

Mmm... Excalibat !

The guy is a cryptographer... I'd consider "Berlin" as being both a clue *and* a misdirection.

The message might well read something like : rememBER LINcoln's birthplace...

Well, if Homo Sapiens Carbonifilis ends up controlling the planet, then *we're* extinct :-p

The real question is this : Do you think that opening a window or walking out the door without having to put on a spacesuit will be an option on Earth in 200 years?

If we choose not (or cannot) stop the alteration our environment, then we either develop technologies that allow us to flourish in closed environmental systems (promoting manned space travel and exploration is a fine method) or we go extinct.

If the aim is to absolutely prevent any chance whatsoever of terrorist acts against planes, then clearly the solution is to remove the planes.

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Stock Splits. One share purchased in 1990 would be 348 shares today.

Actually, I was thinking of the space-time continuum.

In order to not destroy the universe, you have to make sure that your trip into the past will not remove the motivation to make your trip into the past.

Killing Hitler would mean that when you got to the present, you wouldn't go back in time to kill Hitler, and would lock the universe in a perpertual time-loop.

As for money... *everyone* wants more, no matter how much you have :-p