Are you, perchance, a Fox News affiliate?

The only source I could find that agrees with you is this one which is a small, retrospective study in an isolated area of the world. An interesting theory but I would hesitate to get all wound up about it just yet.

Even if this were to be a general case, you would have to consider this against the background of serious side effects from antibiotics (1:1000), development of resistance, costs and likely some other issues.

Only the Sith deal in absolutes.

Well, this is Slashdot. I'm not sure why you seem surprised.

You could just look it up.

Right. Like having your kid on a ventilator is fun thing to do. Walk in the park and all that.

There are unpleasant things in life short of dying: ICU admissions, taxes, politicians ...

... to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Good idea. Maybe we could make a reality TV show about that.

Right you are. A governmental department that spends three quarters of one percent of the US Federal budget is 'wasting a lot of earth's resources". Sorry guy, go whine at the Department of Defense, the Homeland Security Department or the Bureau of Land Mismanagement if you want to chip away at wasted resources.

And, in point of fact, NASA does spend a lot of it's money on earth observation. Of all of those nifty satellites that catalog said resources, most of them come from NASA.

Go tilt at some other windmill.

If that's the case, the Brit's really need to own up and clean out their mess.

Yes! Just like in The Fifth Element. Especially if you get to share the space with Mila Jovovich.

That's not true at all. There are a number of laws regulating model aircraft. And the community has managed to stay within the FAA's good graces by (generally) not pushing the limits or rubbing any painful little areas on the FAA's corporate skin. Model rocketry has been the same and it seems to be rather similar to the FCC's relationship with Amateur radio. Play nice, work under the radar, be happy with what we give you. Don't make pests out of yourselves.

But allowing commercial use opens up whole new containers of slimy invertebrates. The FAA has said they will come up with rules for commercial use of UAVs. They're just taking rather a long time to get around to it. Which annoys some people who are hopped up on Starbucks and LiPo batteries (a fairly dangerous combination in my opinion).

That's right! We're all waiting for that literal windfall of UAV pieces (peicions?) dropping out of the sky. A DIY'er dream come true.

You should see all of the discarded and abandoned remotes out here in the Alaskan bush. Hundreds of thousands of them scurrying around looking for AAA batteries and an IR beam. It's really sad.

What that has to do with UAVs isn't clear.

It's even more confusing than you think.

You are better off reading the Baroque Cycle. It's much more entertaining and even partially correct.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk in to an opensewer and die." -- Mel Brooks