Before patents. The real lesson here is people were obtaining patents on things they didn't invent even back then.

Make me REALLY hate time travellers.

A fourty page, peer reviewed paper on how their application of force against the garage door they broke in through will revolutionize breaking and entering?

Had they actually completed such a task, they'd be able to gain the allegiance of a few American cities, wholesale.

According to their made up degrees they got at Christian bible studying universities, they ARE scientists! THEY ARE THEY ARE THEY ARE! (Repeat until you believe it.)

Is there any problem they CAN'T fix?

So because you don't like him, he should be punished with bad laws? The ACLU would like to have a word with you. Civil liberties aren't for YOU, they're to protect others from you.

What? That's how the current system works. Why do you think we have so many repeat offenders? It's because the prison industry is built to bring those people right back in. So people being marked for life because of an earlier crime happens all the time. And I thought you still had to mention you were once a criminal on your resume even if you were declared innocent later. So yes, bringing up the past is standard practice.

It's gotta be NASA. How did this happen?

Because it looks like comedy. In fact, it is comedy, and not news. It's not news about comedy either, just comedy. Which is tragic.

And I was figuring it'd be the last place we heard about it. Slow news day? Or... month? Since it was restored a while ago. It's certainly notable, and the moderator that wants it gone is just on a power trip. So, yeah. Whateva.

Well, telling someone something enough times can actually get them to believe it, otherwise no one would think Obama is Kenyan. Repeat something too much, and you begin to believe it yourself. Anyways, he, or one of his "friends" probably has a private company ready to take over as soon as the NOAA funding is cut. They'll only charge two to twelve times the original price- what a steal!

With their 80% market share.

They have UNICORNS in Sweden?!

I think you mean "frightfully magnanimous".