But with someone other than Jebediah Kerman piloting, please.

The new BSG was the best thing I've seen so far as far as space battles go. Hopefully the actual use of physics will catch on.

Trolls regenerate. Use fire or acid once you get them below 0 HP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Countersue?

I mean, artificial diamonds hasn't killed the market for natural diamonds.

Have you consider partnering with Battlebots builders? (Team Bronco here)

what are they going to do, cry and say "It doesn't count"?

Didn't work with Google and my robotics stuff in 2010, why would it work now.

I think they did a better job than CC did... and yeah we didn't pay a whole lot of attention to the commentators :) The two battles that weren't shown had a big problem: underpowered weapons. Basically very little happened.

It's 2015, I just finished competing in BattleBots, and this is front page news. 12 year old me would be very happy about how things are going.

Yeah, you've got a point there (I went to a fundie school for a semester... sadly it took that long for my folks to arrange a transfer)

I'm very much nonreligious but approve of initiatives like the Christian State Project or Free State Project. As long as there's no secession/sedition, if people want to live a certain way, let them live that way. And maybe they'll come up with clever ideas that the rest of us can apply.

If this catches on it will be.

Not a bad idea there. Or sell them to rich people at a premium with the understanding that they get (limited) sovereignity over them.

Shuttle: Take 50 ton ship in orbit to carry 5 tons of payload. Rebuild most of it after every flight. Soyuz stack: Take 8 ton ship in orbit to carry 5 tons of payload. Scrap what's left of it after flight, don't worry about reliability of parts. Turns out most of the cost (and the mass) is the fuel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Archive footage from 1998