>Then what should be used instead to treat, say, depression?
Perhaps there is no cure for real depression.
To some, being depressed is like being unhappy or having a downer. For a few, it is a serious physical condition that is very hard to change.
Maybe it would be a good idea to understand what depression is as a condition, before trying to find a cure.
But eating the right food and doing regular exercising is usually better than what your doctor will subscribe for you.

> It is a very blunt instrument, just slightly better than a lobotomy.

True.
You could also argue that it is similar to using a heavy rubber hammer to stir up all the grey matter.
Nobody knows what actually happens when flashing someones scalp with thousands of volts.
Changes to the brain tissue will occur at some level. IQ and memory drops significantly (over 10% to 20%), but the actual brain damage is not visible.
The fact that ECT is being used today is sickening. However it is difficult to control this kind of malpractice.
How can you measure how receptive one individual is compared to the "norm"?
How do you control the mad doctor who blasts his patients with experimentally insane voltages?
Seems like the cranks are out int the open again, free to experiment on innocent victims. Just like in the sixties and seventies.
Perhaps ECT should be allowed only by doctors that can pass +100points on a stand IQ test after taking a series of hard ECT doses over a couple of weeks.
I would love to listen to someone trying to advocate for ECT, backed up by reasonable arguments after such a "treatment".
It is doubtful that anyone could do that without drifting of into oblivion during such an argument. It might fun watching though.
How many doctors actually take their own medicine?

Speaking of scientits. What about soft tissue?

Along Google's expansion into military "appliances" warfare will be much easier and result in practically no collateral damage.
Imagine the combination of geolocation, autonomous cars and autonomous war drones.
"Terrorists" would frequently be transported into specially prepared killing zones, with specially prepared, hardened parking lots, for optimum munition utilization.
DOD would receive a weekly auto generated report of kills.
Merry Christmas

Workers. Uhm??

Yep...
All the Chinese workers stand up and fight.

Do what you are best at.
And STFU!

Maybe it is not you that are the problem.
Perhaps you need to work on your argumentation skills to fend of people who are trying to take advantage of you, because they can.
Maybe it will take a few jobs for you to figure out. Just believe in yourself, keep the faith and do the right things.

Yes, it is thruster beams.
And yes it is an asteriod.
Is it the new nuclear deterrence?

I'm sure that someone will claim it has something to do with Nibiru.
Whohoo, It's a bird [boid]
Great stuff :)

You forgot the for loop, or while.
Ex:
while (1) { serve_alcohol() }

Slam,slam,slam,slam,slam,slam,slam,slam......
That's better

Neither i mistook a gravity well for some fancy anti gravity device. Didn't look it up on google.
>Earth to a few tens of thousands of miles higher does not require an understanding of the mechanism of gravity
Are you an idiot or a troll?
Don't you think i know that. Huh : - ( )
I takes a massive amount of kinetic energy. That's why we need to run the whole operation from the moon.
moteyalpha: Sorry i missed your point :)

I should have said, when golf club production drove up titanium demand.
It actually was on the news back in 2005--2006 when production of titanium golf cubs surged and people stated to buy these insanely large drivers that sounded like half empty coke bottles.

I have a suggest to that problem.
We have already seen how golf clubs have driven up titanium production to the level were it almost stalled jet turbine blades production.
So why not make golf balls with plutonium cores?
They will be dead easy to find using a geiger counter.

Then i will add an other bullet to the list. * Understand how a H3 fusion reactor works.
That part could actually be solved on earth.
However It's almost 35 years ago that i read an article that the scientists where almost there.
And I thought they actually cracked it, but just needed a steady supply of H3 . hmm.

There is no such thing as a gravity well.
Space travel still follows the same basic rules since the forties.
Nobody understands gravity. I mean nobody! There is a lot of crazy theories out there.
Even the higgs boson haven't been finally confirmed yet.
Thinking about gravity well's for space exploration is not going to be productive until there is a better understanding of gravity.
Even if we understood gravity perfectly. It wouldn't necessary mean that we would be able to manipulate gravity at all.
We have to use what ever technology that is available today, if we wan't to push the boundaries in space travel.
The longer we sit and debate about star trek technology, the more we will miss out.