I suspect all those pot-smoking teens are drinking too.

It's not a recent trend. It's been the biggest argument for decades. Alcohol kills people. Alcohol turns regular people into assholes. Weed? Waaaaay more benign.

The same could be said for every square inch of the earth yet we've managed to create very large and powerful countries. The oil wealth in the Middle East may be just the thing that one or two nations need to overcome the other factions and create a large stable influential nation rivaling the US, or China.

Perhaps that was the goal all along. An unstable Middle East can't get organized enough to become a significant threat to the west.

You're lack of faith is disturbing. Now all we need is another Sandy Hook to get the Democrats attacking the 2nd amendment and Republicans attacking abortion and that'll scare you and everyone else back into a two party frenzy.

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.