India has a 74% literacy rate and the average Indian spends 5 years in school (source: http://www.thehindubusinesslin... ). That's not something for Americans to envy. You only meet the lucky few Indians who got the very best education.

What carrier changes you for 911 phone calls? You don't even need a SIM card to make a 911 call.

Perhaps you have poor vision? I saw one tonight accidentally while taking the garbage out.

Playing with sick people's fluids is the job description of a doctor or nurse.

There's an industry that exploits children in order to sell to a market of people who want to view child porn. American helicopters are not shooting kids in Iraq with the goal of selling the video of it for profit. If they were regularly doing so, then you can bet viewing videos of shooting kids in Iraq would also be illegal.

Back during the industrial revolution, 80 hour work weeks and child labor were the norm. All those children lost their jobs permanently, and adults had their hours cut in half. How horribly it would be if our hours were cut further and we were forced to enjoy ourselves!

Where did anybody generalize to make any sort of claim that many or most panhandlers are wealthy?

People who lived in mud huts or worse were responsible for most of the megafauna extinctions, not technology. Humans who can't see or don't consider the consequences of their actions are destructive with or without advanced tech.

If most domain owners were technical people, godaddy wouldn't exist.

Dormant doesn't have to mean something that will awake, but sure there's probably another word that's less open to misinterpretation. The moon isn't exactly an inert rock on the inside though, it still has magma: http://www.universetoday.com/9...

Odd that anyone hasn't heard since it's far from news, but "moon volcanoes" is easily googled for thousands of reference to extinct volcanoes known to be active until at least a billion years ago. Discussions of a couple of specific types of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... and http://www.space.com/12419-moo...

That's Will. Wil Wheaton, on the other hand, is just a geek and longtime /.er who loves games and has the connections and wealth to film it.

It's a known fact that the moon once had a lot of volcanic activity. Remaining volcanos are dormant, but lava tubes still exist.

The ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes. The moon has a two week long night. Storing power through the latter is a much bigger issue.

If you actually want to reduce emissions, it'd be many times more effective to use that money to give everyone free bus passes. And that way you'd actually be helping the poor instead of the wealthy!