Someone mod up please.

Oh for mod points...

Wish I had mod points...

A thousand years later some of us may be a lot more connected with direct-brain-interfaces, to the point that there will be multihumanic species (like multicellular). It doesn't mean that the multihuman consciousness won't have curiosity, wants etc. Don't we, multicellular beings want to live, eat etc? Aren't we curious about bacteria? The whole article is pretty bad.

Meh

In my opinion it could have been far more convincing. It is not just an "optional" desire to explore the reason we should fund NASA. It is the moral and logical imperative in order to survive as species. For the survival of intelligent species on earth. Larry Niven's line comes to mind: The dinosaurs are extinct because they did not have a space program. We need more telescopes around the earth and Venus to look for incoming small and large objects that can hit earth. And then we need to devise ways to intercept and avoid them. This argument does not make space exploration an optional luxury, but a critical necessity.

Laughed my ass out. Truly good one!

Can someone knowledgeable (i.e. not speculating) or working in the medical device industry explain why we can't use some really hard material like a titanium alloy or Kevlar to make the skull bullet-proof, especially for those in combat?

This. Where are my mod points when I need them?

If there ever was an insightful comment on fb.. this is it.

Facebook. An openly ruthless privacy destroyer. What Google, MS and Apple do is small potatoes compared to the facebook problem.

And academic articles should be paid-access even though the authors of the articles paid for publication, and the public has paid (through taxes) for the research in those articles. Right?

Lol. Wish I had mod points.