If they're aliens with a giant star cruiser that presumably came from space (or maybe the fifth dimension? I dunno), I don't think this would be a major issue.... especially because of the "already in space" part.

A better question is, if you're going to dump it at all, why do it on a planet with life and go through the trouble of diluting it? Why not choose a dead rock, deep space, or, ya know, a star?

No breader reactors? What about baguette reactors?

The French used the guillotine right up until 1977 (their death penalty was abolished in 1981 anyway), so it may not need to much updating. As late as 1996, a US Rep from Georgia tried to get the electric chair replaced with the guillotine (but was not successful).

No, I'm taking the perspective that "serving simultaneous sentences" doesn't make logical sense. You're not serving simultaneous sentences, you're serving one sentence (presumably the longest or harshest one) and having the rest dropped.

For a very long time, hanging was exceptionally torturous because you essentially just waited for them to asphyxiate. It's a relatively recent advance in hanging methods to drop them from a height so the rope snaps their neck, making it quick and painless... if all goes as planned.

If I ever have to be executed, I want them to do it with a goddamn tank cannon.

There's an easy way out of that conundrum. Just continue to use methods like hanging, firing squads and drowning. They're all well tested and documented methods in which the results can be pretty well assured. Sure, they seem a little more barbaric, but they're tested.

You're taking away liberty and, usually, the pursuit of happiness. So why not life, if we're grouping them all together?

From my understanding, a week with Slashdot Beta should about do it.

And then are they released on double secret probation?

Simultaneously serving multiple sentences doesn't really make logical sense if they're being imprisoned 24/7 for the duration of their sentence. It's not like they can be imprisoned for 48 hours a day to serve two sentences simultaneously. What you're effectively doing is just having them serve one sentence and dropping the rest, not having them served simultaneously.

This is the route I'm probably going to go with my next PC. These days, even games bought on disc don't usually require the disc just to play the game (maybe the one and only upside of moving on to Internet-based DRM?), so it's mostly just used to install a game or rip a DVD/CD and then forgotten for a few months. A USB drive gets bonus points for letting me put the DVD drive wherever I want on my desk, rather than having to bend over to reach where the case is hidden away. They make them quite small too... barely thicker than plastic jewel cases.

These days, most article editing is to make sure it follows the rules of English and that it has a coherent thought... fact checking is rarely done by anyone except the reader.

I'm all set to blame Jersey Shore.

Maybe it's one of those "You start dying as soon as you're born" philosophical things. Or before you're born.