Considering that the fastest space vehicles ever created took 3 months to travel a mere 8 light *minutes* (somewhere around one-16000th the speed of light), the assumption that we will ever reach even a significant fraction of the speed of light with a vehicle created anytime in the conceivable future is a bit of an overstretch to say the *least*.
No problem... A quick application of Moore's Law and we should be ready for launch in about 30 years.
it's not dead...
It's pinin' for the fjords.
does it run Linux?
More importantly, could you set up a sufficiently large Beowulf cluster of these things to light, say, 1/2 the earth at any given time?
Part of the magic of meatspace board games is losing the bits and pieces.
You can't do that on an iPad.
Well... you could; you just have to take a hammer to the iPad first.
You won't find the meaning of life at level 80.
True; it's found at level 42.
What court case limits the Eighth Amendment to Criminal cases?
That would be BFI v. Kelco Disposal, at least when the government isn't a party.
Sigh.
Gold is only good if the component will be unplugged and plugged back in a lot, or will spend a lot of time sitting around.
As opposed to components that spend a lot of time jogging.
In regards to my private Wifi service, the only authority I have to obey is my home state legislature, since I operate completely and wholly within the state.
Please see Wickard v. Filburn. The Supreme Court doesn't necessarily agree with you in RE: Reach of Federal Jurisdiction.
"By 2050 nearly 80% of the worldâ(TM)s population will reside in urban centers, and 109 hectares of arable land will be needed to feed them."
Assuming this quote is accurate, then that means we'll have plenty of land to grow crops on (because not as many people live in rural areas).
Especially considering we'll be able to feed everyone in the world using just over a square kilometer of land.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
