The older humans lived 20 - 30 years MAX.

Bull. The Bible itself tells us the full span of a man's years is "threescore and ten". That's from the Book of Psalms, and was probably written around 700 BC.

you only have to do it once.

Tell that to Miles Vorkosigan. You can't replace a skeleton all at once; you have to do it piecemeal. They'll have to do it *lots* of times, a few bones at a time.

written by Longfellow after he'd lost his entire family (wife included) during the Civil War:

Someone seems to have embellished the tale a bit. Longfellow did not lose his entire faimly in the Civil War. The poem was written after his eldest son Charles was wounded, not killed, in battle; he wouldn't die until 1893, eleven years after his father. His wife was burned to death in a household accident in 1861. He wrote a different poem about that death, "The Cross of Snow", eighteen years later.

The big thing that is worse, I think, is economic inequality

In the US, yes. *World* economic inequality is falling.

I don't see anything particularly impolite about the truth: "I saw your number on the voicemail and decided it would be faster to call you back right away instead of listening to it. So what's happening?"

The *real* problem with not listening to the voicemail is if you get stuck playing phone tag. If there was useful information on that voice mail other than "Call me back" you're not going to learn it from the original caller's voice mail prompt.

No, that's just how Gene sold it to the network: "Wagon Train to the Stars", to quote his concept document. But Gene intended that to be a trojan horse--he wanted to take the chance to also touch on larger issues. "A masterwork of American Literature"? No, not really, although they did have master science-fiction writers do some of their scripts (Theodore Sturgeon on "Amok Time" and "Shore Leave", Harlan Ellison on "The City on the Edge of Forever", Robert Bloch on "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "Catspaw", and "Wolf in the Fold", Norman Spinrad on "The Doomsday Machine") But it also used be more than just non-stop action, too. Not anymore.

"in order to protect their internal Wi-Fi services."
I'm soooo sure that's the real reason and it has nothing to do with money.

Of course it's the real reason, and it has everything to do with money. They want to protect their internal Wi-Fi services from external competition.

I think you will find it means "Long Play", young man.

So LPDDR4 means Dance Dance Revolution 4 played with a 33 1/3 RPM record, right?

Time for another scopes monkey trial!

Oh, I don't think that's a good idea. Do you have any idea how hard it is to even *get* monkeys to use mouthwash?

I wasn't aware that Obama was accused of being an illegal alien.

Good lord, how could you miss all the birthers? Some of them just claim Obama's not a native-born citizen, but some are willing to go all the way to illegal alien. None of which is true, but it hasn't stopped people from claiming it.

Aside from the fact that Obama is neither an illegal alien, a Muslim, or a communist, or a pathological liar (which is not to say he's been 100% truthful--hey, he's a politician) it's very funny indeed.

there haven't been any Adventure Time jokes yet.

Time was, surface vessels got their fuel the same way: all the enlisted plus the ensigns passing sacks of coal.

In the US Navy, they made a contest of it, too, starboard watch against port watch. If you made the ship list enough (because you filled the coal bunkers on your side so much faster), your side got extra leave.

Which is why *nobody* ever does such a thing, right?

We have plenty of areas on Earth that are perfect for solar panels.

No we don't. We don't anywhere on Earth where a solar panel can collect half the energy a solar panel in space can.