Most people don't need to write code at all. What are these simple scenarios that are awfully handy? I could see some business oriented folks maybe needing a little VBA or something...but most people will never write anything even if they were taught a language is school. And then, chances are the language they learned is now obsolete.

Clearly you have not taught much programming. Yes you can teach most people to write simple programs, but there's a big difference between that and writing professional or even usable code.

Only outlaws will have fixed machines....I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I don't suppose you could provide a little help on how one actually utilizes HTML5 within a C# application. I've been looking for information on how this is done and found nothing. The best I came up with is a webpage loaded inside of a winforms browser control. But that's still using winforms. What am I missing?

No they don't. It isn't stupid. It is, in fact, stupid that the bomb squad wastes their time with these.

Really? You think you can create a utopia on Earth? Knock it off, just knock it off. The Earth will always have problems. Any place with humans will always have problems.

Or you could, you know, treat the number one killer of humans: aging.

The safety concerns he's referring to are some kind of catastrophic failure of the launch vehicle, resulting in the destruction of the radioactive core. Considering people get uneasy over launching RTGs, they'd certainly get hysterical over using a nuclear thermal rocket as a launch vehicle. Frankly, this space-nutter would too. Too much risk.

Because high school was all about running cost benefit analyses on space based solar power.

Kind of an inaccurate headline. "Airless" makes it sound like a vacuum...which would naturally make air cooling impossible.

Name one

Thundercats was sci-fi actually. They came to Earth from another planet. They had sophisticated machines: The Thundertank, their weapons, WilyKit and WilyKat's hoverboardsl,etc...they lived in a big cat like fortress with computers and lasers.

I know this.

Yes. Where people go, the garbage and military follows...as does everything else that comes with civilization. Obviously.

True, but the State of the Union is a notorious platform for the President to spout feel good intentions to the American people that never amount to anything. Hydrogen powered cars anyone?