If you want to be immortal, you have to be sterilized.

It's actually more plausible to colonize the Moon than Mars. In both cases you're going to be living underground. In both cases you're extracting water and oxygen from local resources. In both cases you're going to be wearing a pressure suit on the surface. The advantage of the Moon is it only takes a couple weeks to get there instead of months. You can bring a heck of a lot more resources from Earth to your Moon base for the cost of bringing it to your Mars base. An emergency escape craft to bring you from the Moon to Earth wouldn't cost a trillion dollars. If you believe a Mars base would be easier to bring to self-sufficiency you are fooling yourselves.

I first read it as "Hot Pocket", which I think would be a better fit.

I was just saying it was a problem. As it just so happens I'm plugging up someone else's memory leaks right now in a C# program. I worked in C and C++ for decades, so I love garbage collection. Just because I point out a problem doesn't mean I want to dump Java or C#.

A problem with Java and C# is that it is possible to create memory leaks in those languages, but since people rely so much on garbage collection they don't think about it and get bit in the ass. Event handlers shared across processes are particularly dangerous.

If the Germans had been putting IEDs under their AutoBahns for a decade after 1945, and continued to kill each other by the thousands, it's hard to imagine how we could have forced it to be the industrious, Bier drinking, techno loving paradise it is today.

She beamed down to the Lord of the Flies planet and almost died.

Scotty was killed in an episode, but then brought back to life.

They were going to play off the sexual tension between her and Kirk and have this simmering but never acted upon kind of thing between them. I wonder if she had remained in the series would Kirk have become the space-slut he's famous for?

[face palm] You see how I cleverly proved my own point?

While I loved that scene, it always bothered me because you never see standard keyboards in the Star Trek universe, so how did Scotty get so proficient? It's like if someone from the 1800s wrote a science fiction story about someone from the 21st century going back to their time and expecting them to be experts with the slide rule and Morris code.

I don't think defining specific isotopic ratios will be out of the question for molecular printers. If you want to make a block of wood that seems like it's a thousand years old you just fill your carbon cartridge with the correct ratio of carbon 14.

Any historical media that is exclusively digital can be forged. Once we have molecular level 3-D printers, all physical historical artifacts can potentially be forged and altered. We have to look at a possible future where there in no way to verify any historical fact, an historical fact being anything that happened more than a nanosecond ago.

That's what I get for using hard coded constants.

25 year old son Hey dad, do you have a watch I can borrow?

Father I have a watch in my top drawer, but the battery ran out.

22 year old son That's okay. I'm going to bar tonight, I don't need the watch to actually tell time.