There is some evidence that the appendix acts as a reservoir of the gut biota to repopulate when the need arises due to illness (or excessive antibiotics, etc).

So near, and yet so far...

Thank god!

Actually, being better at computing makes you more likely to get hired as a computer jock. If you think having a majority of IT jobs held by men is bad, pick a fight with the parents and teachers that profile against the females for much of their lives. For the record, two of my three daughters are in the tech industry, along with both sons.

Moreover, I am actively seeking a female CEO for my tech startup. Not because I can't do the job, but to help fill any worldview blind spots I might have of which I am unaware.

Most basketball players are tall also, which suggests a body image crisis in that industry.

Now I'll never find the missing socks

What do you have against Orionis IV?

0.68 seconds sir. For an android, that is nearly an eternity

They haven't yet, but they will eventually

That the first jet engines were unreliable, and required extensive maintenance after each test. Progress happens. With effort.

NASA is in charge of our Robotic OVERlords!!

I've got nothing

Powermatic 66 table saw

I can't be sure what the previous poster was disagreeable about, but every one knows monkeys throw poo, not rocks

On a vaguely related note: Assume you send N ships on this voyage. Do you send N copies of the same ship, and hope the design has no fatal flaw (while acknowledging the advantages of parts redundancy) . Or do you send N different designs in the hope that diversity of design is overall more reliable?