The advantage in the UK of course is a specialized Patent Court with Judges and no juries. These Judges are patent specialists spending their time only looking at Patent cases. They are a very sharp bunch. I recall one incident in which the Judge suspended a complex case so he could go and learn some pretty high level biochemistry from the head of biochemistry at Cambridge.

Now ask how many times TSA has had to change their procedures after someone tried to blow up their shoes/underwear/water bottles...

Why did it take 3 days for the other guys to say yes to $1bn?

Watch this documentary and shake your head wondering why infant/mother mortality rates are so high in the US despite all the medicalization of the birth process.

Hate to point this out to you, but the article isn't talking about "you and your fellow millennials" you're about 10 years too old.

The real investigation should be who got rich from all this.

Then say "yes dear".

I opted out at PHX recently, they made a big deal out of making us stand to one side and calling out on their radios for agents to come and do a pat down. While we waited he insisted they were safe blah blah blah. My objection is more political/war profiteering than health risk so I just ignored him and didn't bother trying to engage in conversation.

Anyway after the pat down was done I realized that not only had we bypassed the silly x-ray machine but we had also bypassed the standard metal detector.

Yay security!

What, you don't think there are cameras in taxis in the US?

Knowing how lazy students are, they probably just copied the list off someone else.

Well, how big is YOUR solar sail?

Not really, for two reasons.

1) To have a valid patent, you need to make an enabling disclosure. i.e. describe it in enough detail that someone can make it. If it's inner workings are just fiction then you can't really describe how it works.

2) Even if there is enough information in your sci fi film to actually make one, the film itself is prior art.

It would be easier to just use a solid rocket booster from ATK.

Anyone? Beuller?

It's also a clever way of avoiding income tax.