Come on, who doesn't love this guy's filmography?

An AS degree, or at least the classes taken at a community college still transfer to state schools. This route is a hell of a lot cheaper than going straight to a 4 year university and if you do well in these courses, you can transfer to significantly more competitive universities than otherwise. Community colleges have many night classes, nearly every single CS course the I took was at night there with most students between 20 and 40. If you live in California, the options are even better because the CCC system is a feeder into both the UC's and CSU's which happens to be the route that I took.

The UK is concerned that some of their international students are illegally working. Their reasoning is that school and work are mutually exclusive so if you are in school you are not working and vise versa. This is flawed reasoning.

We don't have enough fuel to actually send these things anywhere but down. As for why we don't just leave them there, usually satellites are usually decommissioned when they run out of some resource. For commercial satellites, it's usually the fuel used to maneuver, which means that it will no longer be able to doge debris so it's best to ditch them there, but for scientific applications, we often have a tank of liquid He or N2 somewhere used to cool an instrument. When that tank runs out, you have to ask if the other sensors are worthwhile to keep which occasionally they are.

If the probe is worthless, it'll just add to the satellite debris and 200 years from now it'll be a problem. But these things have a lot of kinetic energy and we really don't know what's even a foot underground on the moon so you might as well crash it and look to see what you find. As for why we're doing it at night, the moon has a temperature swing of over 200 degrees between day and night, we don't want any volatile compounds to evaporate before we get a chance to look.

I've never seen an image in a slashdot comment before, I think it's for our own safety.

I don't know, there's over 5000 different ways to combine 7 ideas. I'm betting it was 6.

Your analogy to the EM spectrum is quite apt here. Scientists know exactly what it is if they've been trained in Physics, EE, or Chemistry, pertly much nobody else knows what it means other than you have a poster with a rainbow on your wall. In a vacuum, they behave the same, but the equations that cover microwaves, visible light, and x-rays are very different when they become the least bit useful to you by reflecting off, getting absorbed, or traveling though stuff.

To Average Joe who will ultimately make decisions based entirely on a superficial name, radiation can be clumped into categories like... does it cook my food? Can I see it? Will it kill me? With the first and second categories almost never being called radiation because that's a scary word.

Since the Autism Spectrum is so wide and the word Autism has such a negative association, it'll end up in the people defined as Asperger's to reject their diagnosis as Autistic.

Lawrence Tech, UCLA, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, WWU, Harvard, Oxford... You sure picked an odd list.

It's difficult to read your post and understand what you are trying to convey; but I am assuming that you're talking about Hurricane Sandy based on your reference to the East Coast. This is not for that.

You know, 7 billion in taxes is only about 200 bucks to each Californian. How much do you think it costs a company to move out of a state even? My guess is that for a small company it'd be on the order of tens-of thousands, without factoring in training costs and lost profits during the transition.

Countries weigh the cost vs benefits when engaging in a war, not all 'acts of war' are created equal.

If hundreds or thousands of citizens die in an attack like the USS Maine (Spain), RMS Lusitania (Germany), Peril Harbor (Japan), 9/11 (Afghanistan), the US responds with an all out war where both sides suffer causalities. Other cases like the theft of American's property (Cuba), an embargo is sufficient for us to tell them that we don't like 'em.

During none of the wars listed above did the US ever have a significant threat to it's existence even in the event of a loss, except maybe Cuba. But if you're Iran war would mean certain defeat, that cost calculation is even more skewed.

They're used to the gravity, you're not. They should be quite athletic by our standards and able to go all night, while you'd be wheezing just leaning against a poll.

Very true, there are other factors which may be contributing to our density like our lunar impactor which would have ejected lighter elements easier our our position in the accretion disk which would have provided us with supply of heavier raw elements. We also suspect that there's an upper limit for gas planets' volume based on gravitational collapse due to adding new material, one would expect a terrestrial analogue.

Taking pictures of bodies like Pluto isn't hard because it's far away from us, it's hard because it's far away from a light source and receives 1/2000th the illumination of the Earth, being small and far doesn't help, but that's not our big problem. Given that it's in the habitable zone, the amount of light should be comparable to that of the Earth, not something and given the expected surface area is nearly 4 times larger than that of the Earth's, it should be a quite bright pixel.

He's just waiting for us to find something 80% N2 and 20% O2 with 70% of it's surface covered in water before he unveils his warp teleporter.