On the one hand you say it is impossible, yet on the other you propose the obvious solution.

For a manned mission it is necessary to minimize time, not fuel.

As far as anyone can tell, there's no actual use for people here, unless you count self-propagation, pollution, and destruction. But any bacteria can do those things.

I will welcome them when the drivers reach parity and they scrub the commercial driver, until then I've been burned too many times by ATI to even consider one of their GPUs. Not literally, either, just continual wrestling with shit drivers.

I'm told they've gotten better, but I've got no reason to change

The solution is not to pretend that bad things don't happen. It's for our society to grow up and learn to accept that they do, and learn to take care of one another. If your daughter dies next year, at the end of the year, will you pretend it didn't happen? Someone with a happier year would have a happier year in review.

People are confused by Facebook, it's just life with more ads.

That's why I'm going to get out of the alcohol, pork, and shellfish businesses, and get into the slave trade. It's biblically approved!

This is a side effect of our nation being built around the car. In most U.S. cities, let alone in the suburbs, trying to exist without an automobile is at best isolating and will often lead to loss of opportunity. Potential employers judge you in part by your car, and if you don't have one they may well decide that they can't expect you to get to work reliably.

Since you reasonably need a car to participate in our society, driving should be a right and the focus should be on helping people defeat alcoholism. That, however, would require that someone act like they care about that person, and by and large we don't actually give one fuck about one another. We just don't want people inconveniencing us on our way home from work.

Or, and here's a novel idea, we could restore our public transportation systems to the track they were on when the auto companies destroyed them. Then our society could easily absorb the cost of taking driving privileges away from people, since they could still reasonably function in their daily lives, and the debate over whether it's right to terminate people's driving rights would be a much simpler one because it wouldn't interfere with their human rights.

TL;DR: We intentionally rebuilt our society around the car, you can't just take away people's driving privileges because without treating them as rights our society doesn't work.

But in Oz you have functional public health. In the USA, if you lose your job, you lose any functional health insurance you might have had. The kind I can buy with my own money doesn't have any available doctors taking new patients, just like when I last had health insurance before Obamacare. I literally cannot get anything but lackluster emergency care in my county.

Children have potential and with considerable investment may create value, compared to adults who have already proven that they lack potential and will never do anything more significant in their lifetime than pollute.

So you're comparing this to Keaton or Chaplin? I think you missed the mark there.

What is more likely to happen is that either a) no FTL particle, ever or b) the standard model will have to be amended. What makes some people think going back in time (and violating causality) is possible, is the elegance of the mathematics that fits what we know about physics. Would not be the first time that when more becomes known, the mathematics loses significantly in elegance. Just look at the mess of the current mathematical modeling (not: "foundation"!) quantum physics has.

It seems your problem is that you think code can be "EXACT". You cannot specify projects of meaningful size exactly. It is an old idea from several decades ago and it fails consistently, so nobody competent even tries these days. You also seem to confuse people that can write code fast with people that do understand what the machine can do in terms of actual applications and how to make it do that. Those are the exceptional programmers, not the people that can crank out lines of dubious quality really fast.