Like all viruses, we will mutate as we infect different hosts.

Well just F up that planet too.

The concept of treating planets as disposable vessels for humans to be sucked dry and then we move on basically makes us a cancer.

It is simply so that they don't have to print two boxes, and they sell more TV's in the US.

Maybe it is just a supposition that closed minded persons generally don't come to the best/most appropriate conclusions.

Well, it is hard to say about that. Ship to ship combat in space would probably be carried out by drones. The fragile meat bags inside would never survive the acceleration.

I sat in a radar site in Hawaii at PMRF staring at a screen during the tests I supported. A target missile was launched from a pad a few miles away (you sure as hell could hear and feel THAT!) and the intercepting ship (as in a US Navy guided missile cruiser, not a space ship) was a couple of hundred miles away. The launches I witnessed... in under a second the target was through the clouds and five seconds later was gone leaving just a trail. The interceptor makes the target look like an old lady trying to out sprint Usain Bolt (I am told it would be supersonic before it leaves the launch tube on the ship... but I never saw a ship launch but every sailor I talked to who did said it was very impressive for the brief moment they got to experience it - from inside the ship.)

Other than that there was nothing to see. The intercept itself was over the horizon, so it had to be "viewed" from an aircraft.

Project Rho is a crap shoot for what it gets right and what it gets wrong.

...I can tell you another thing about space battles: you don't see anything aside from a few tracks on a computer screen. If you have a telescope pointed in the right direction at the exact right time you see a very unimpressive and quick flash.

The ranges, timing, and velocities involved are far too great for human perception.

What is the XBox 360 version written in?

Nobody ever called your parents realists.

CipherShed indeed.

Re Tennessean.

I thought that whole thing basically lost steam in the 1970's.

For the UK - they remain united.

For Scotland - they get greater autonomy without the pain of going it alone.

For the Scottish people - their heritage and nationality received much attention (hell I didn't know there WAS a Scottish flag before this). They proved them selves to be paragons of peaceful demonstration and democracy.

For the Britons - the Welsh and Irish nationalities in the UK benefit from greater recognition as well. The English too!

The UK is an amazing and interesting union - and all should be proud to be a part. And who knows... maybe the next generation will decide Yes.

Such is the take of this American anyway.

True, I do feel like Dr Lexus from Idiocracy much of the time.

Don't worry scro... there are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick ass lives!