Not really, injection molding is always going to be cheaper for mass produced stuff, shipping inclusive.

Or do you think there will be a day you can 3D print a plastic chair that can support a person for $5?

Wake me up when it prints the motors, belts, and electronics.

The education department did a fine job. That's why at least half of americans call anything they don't like 'socialism', and assume it is bad thing.

The problem with obamacare is it isn't socialist enough. The US is too backward to cut out all the insurance crooks, and move to a single payer system. So instead you get forced payment to private companies. How very socialist.

Dearborn is supposedly the most Arab and muslim 'city' in the US (pop 100k, not much of a city). It's only 40% arab, and some percent of that group are Lebanese Christians (the earliest Arab immigrants to the area). Suppose there are some non-arab muslims though. I can't seem to find decent religious demographics in a quick search.

Canada has been sending a few anglo islam converts to go die in arabia lately. I have no idea what would inspire someone who grew up in Calgary or Winnipeg and got a proper first world education to go martyr themselves for Allah in the third world, but nonetheless it does happen on occasion. The amount is so minuscule it's lost in the noise though.

I suppose the same deal happens in the US on occasion.

stamped / punched stainless steel sheets would probably be about the best option, if you wan't something to really stick around. Less brittle than rock carvings too.

I'm fairly certain that had something to do with Chrome being made by an advertising company. i.e. it was never a technical restriction, but an imposed one.

Though some searching makes it look like this is no longer the case.

General dynamics was around since 1900, and obtained Convair and Canadair in the 50's, so I don't think "some upstart" is really apt.

(it was called "electric boat" before then, as it mostly made subs (which they still make))

Bayer still owns 'aspirin' in Canada, for what it's worth.

The US had just installed nukes in Turkey. It seems entirely reasonable for the USSR to put them in Cuba and retain MAD.

But the US got all butthurt about it instead.

In the end Kennedy and Khrushchev weren't retarded, and both sets of missiles were removed. same result in the end, MAD restored.

Were you a pirate?

Wouldn't the safe choice be... Soyuz?

Names like HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are kind of asking to sink with all hands on deck, aren't they?

Must be British humour or something...

Never going to happen. The energy density of kerosene is at least fifty times that of lithium cells. Even with ten fold advances in battery tech it's simply not going to be feasible.

So even in a post oil world, we'd have to synthesize longer hydrocarbons to fly, I'd think.

Uranium is similar in toxicity to lead, for what it's worth, disregarding radiation and decay products and whatnot.

I don't remember hearing anything about dumping lead on the thing? I can't see it as being worse than living within 1000mi of a smelter anyway. The smelter in sudbury puts out 150 tons of lead into the atmosphere per year. Radiation was definitely the main concern.

Bingo. If someone sets a GPS to go to the wrong location, you don't say the GPS had a embedded software problem.

More like a failure to double check settings or something.