I've been doing several to dozens of solves daily for the last several years. I couldn't average much faster than 40 seconds no matter how much a studied and practiced. A few months ago I threw away all of my cubes (around 10 of them) so that I could stop obsessing over it. I was wasting so much of my life sitting there solving over and over.

Thanks Shatner.

What part of my last sentence didn't you read?

If we could actually speed a ship up to anywhere near the speed of light, even hitting a pebble is likely to blow up your spaceship.

You're assuming these transits would occur frequently and that we actually have the equipment pointed at the sky to detect them. Even if there were 200 times as many brown dwarfs as stars in the galaxy, actually seeing one pass in front of another star would be an extremely rare occurrence and we'd only detect if we were looking right at that star. Even then we'd only detect a small decrease in light and we'd be unable to distinguish it from the transit of a planet with a long orbital period. Also, consider the velocity of stars in relation to each other? The transit may only visible for a fraction of a second...in which case we wouldn't be able to detect it at all.

Brown dwarfs are small. And we can only detect exoplanets by detecting the effect they have on the wobble of the host star, by their transit of the star, or very rarely we can see light from extremely hot planets.

Even at 200 times, collisions would be extremely rare. And the collision would be a non-event as far as the earth is concerned. Why don't they collapse into stars [assuming the collision produced a star with sufficient mass to be a star]. Maybe they are? Still the collisions would be so rare that we'd almost certainly never witness the event.

The only part of your argument that really works. Even with the limited instruments we have now, we'd expect to see more if there were 200 times as many brown dwarfs. But then, we're discovering a lot more of these now that we have instruments designed to find them. Regardless, I don't think 200 times the number would account for the missing mass.

You know, doing your taxes (and filing) in something like TurboTax takes like 30 - 60 minutes (assuming your taxes aren't complicated). Easy money.

F2P games are riddled with 12 year olds who smack talk everyone by calling them fags or some other juvenile insult. It gets tiresome.

People just running a browser for email and surfing don't need more than 4 right now. I get by with 8 at work and I'm using running 2-4 instances of Visual Studio and several instances of firefox, office, and various other programs.

This statement is a bit reminiscent of my fellow nerdy friends when I was growing up who could not fathom filling a 100 megabyte harddrive.

You're holding up accountants and lawyers as role models? Now that's funny.

What makes you think it wasn't also timed by another device?

Indirectly. I'm seeing several people arguing to let nature take it's course. I'm seeing people argue against transhumanist goals.

No. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

Should I be more afraid of the .1% who seek immortality for themselves, or the self-righteous "geeks" who seem to want to impose nature's normal expiration date me.

Yes.

Yes. As restored species they would be protected by man and then have a shot at continued existence in the event humans die off or evolve passed the necessity for a biosphere.