Not really. Shooting raw materials 350 Km up into orbit is a bit easier than travelling a few hundred million km into the void, cruising around in the asteroid belt looking for those materials (remember, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately three thousand, seven hundred and twenty to one!) and then returning into earth orbit.

Obligatory XKCD

I somehow doubt that a catastrophic failure at an offshore wind farm or at an concentrated solar power plant would involve damage to humans on a scale compared to nuclear power plants or coal plants.

Nuclear and coal are not the only power sources, but they certainly are the worst ones considering their potential and innate risks.

Exactly. Modern nuclear power plants are much safer now. And they are operated by the smartest and best paid workers in the world, so we don't have to fear that they may make mistakes. And even if they explode, no radiation will be spread across the land, nobody will be harmed. And we have solved the waste problem since then, so we no longer have to fear that the locations where we store the contaminated waste may some day release radiation into the environment. Oh, wait...

And according to this page, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom each own 50% of Everythingeverywhere.

AFAIK, in most European countries reproductions of two-dimensional works don't generate new copyrights. The UK seems to be one of the few countries where museums can legally claim to own the copyrights to photos/scans of very old paintings.

"If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously. " -- Dr. Ian Malcolm

Maybe they'll hire Quinto.

Since 2009, Wikipedia has a feature that lets you save articles, transform these collections of articles into PDF or OpenDocument files and even order printed book versions of these articles via PediaPress. See this and this page for more information.

Yep, Fair Use images are not allowed on the German Wikipedia. Only some of the Wikimedia projects allow non-free content (here's a list of projects) due to different local copyright laws. Several of the smaller projects use non-free content under some kind of fair use, even though their local laws might not really allow it.

"Fair Use" does not exist in German law, although there's something similar, the "Zitatrecht" (quotation right), but it's more restrictive. And the German Wikipedia community chose to not include non-free content, because Wikipedia wants to be a "free encyclopedia" with free content that anyone can use. But there are also some provisions in German (+ Austrian and Swiss) copyright laws that allow using images that the English WP can't use. For example photos of statues and artworks in public places (Panoramafreiheit).

German law includes exceptions for the use of symbols of banned organizations in education, science, research, news coverage and art (Â86 StGB, (3)). So history books and educational sites like Wikipedia are allowed to use these symbols (as long as they don't use them in totally different contexts). IMHO, the use of swastikas in video games should be allowed, as games are art, just like movies (Indiana Jones, Inglorious Basterds, etc..). But not everything that's allowed by the law is allowed by the BPjM.

The German Wikipedia did it that way. New versions by anonymous and new users are added to the version history just like any other edit. Users that are not logged in get the to see the latest reviewed version and a new button/tab called "Entwurf" (draft) is shown at the top linking to the latest non-reviewed version (if one exists).