Why do you think he's taking them?

when I was in school, one day in English class we were handed a sheet of paper to write or draw anything we wanted to be sent up to orbit in a space time capsule. I thought it seemed like a bad idea to put things in orbit that don't need to be there, so I drew a picture of Earth with a bunch of garbage cans, garbage bags, and debris floating around it. I wish I could see that picture I drew. Google helped me determine the program was called SpaceArc and the messages were carried to orbit on tape in the DirecTV 2 satellite in 1994. But I wish the contents of the tape were available for viewing online.

I believe this may be a fake hoax.

shell!

I hate how companies tell us where some specific source of income goes. Even if it doesn't just go into a big pool of budget money, then some part of a budget somewhere is changed so that other money is available for other purposes.
The bottom line... if $300k can be added to the overall budget, then that's $300k more that can go to paying a CEO's bonus.

It's not like they weren't going to replace light bulbs without this money.

I was about to post the same thing. The article doesn't mention the rag being dirty.

The article calls him "A self-confessed atheist".
Doesn't confessing imply an admission of guilt? That doesn't seem necessary.

Also, what's the difference between "self-confessed" and "confessed"?

If flying cars were invented first, the improvement would be called the automobile. It would have four wheels that touch the ground. No more flying cars would be falling from the sky. Countless lives would be saved. It would save you thousands of dollars in fuel costs because it doesn't need to hover.

The future is now. Enjoy it.

You speak in riddles.

your words

But what about all your other unborn children? Using your logic, it was selfish of you not to conceive and bring them into the world.

It's a palindrome only because the two sides of the shield are mirror images. He was just consistent with that.
The binary value isn't exactly random, but it's meaningless. It was chosen for aesthetic reasons... about the same number of zeroes and ones, grouped in a way so no grouping on zeros or ones is too long. Basically so that it doesn't look strange and looks like a "random" binary number.

Now stop dwelling on this.

0101 0111 0101 0100 0100 0110 0010 0001 0010 0000 0101 0011 0111 0100 0110 1111 0111 0000 0010 0000 0110 0100 0111 0111 0110 0101 0110 1100 0110 1100 0110 1001 0110 1110 0110 0111 0010 0000 0110 1111 0110 1110 0010 0000 0111 0100 0110 1000 0110 1001 0111 0011 0010 0001 0010 0000 0011 1010 0111 0000

I think socially it would make sense to have some more buttons.
But they should always be anonymous.
So when someone posts: "I'm washing my car! Isn't water so amazing!"...
they'll get a variety of feedback like:

1 friend likes this
12 friends think this is stupid
7 friends say "so what?"

Then maybe people wouldn't post everything that comes to mind. It would be just like in the real world.
When someone walks blindly into a group of friends and just says, "I'm washing my car! Isn't water so amazing!", it's bizarre.