Really?

It seems that we are going to have to fight off aliens for our survival. Given that any aliens that come here are going to be more advanced than us, I wouldn't say thats optimistic.
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And even if we don't come across intelligent aliens, the (human) Galactic Empire will become corrupt and collapse, witth whole planets wiped out.

What sort of engine can you print with a 3d printer?

Which show is he from?

“All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.

Sapphire and Steel have been assigned”.

Its the last few feet that count
or is that meters

"For all you people that haven't heard of it or believe it had no value you are wrong."

So people that hadn't heard of it are wrong ?

I hadn't heard of it, and I have been an Amazon Prime member for a few years...

" and cannot be just hailed on the street"

Thats a good idea, make hail illegal. Can they do the same with straightline winds and tornados too?

"0 is very cold,"

If we are talking Fahrenheit , 0 is nighttime in winter.

"100 is you"

You must be coming down with the flu or something. 98.4 is normal

"200 is boiling water"

On a mountain I spose. its 212 at sea level.

will this new retina help me find my missing socks?

Is this s tep towards X-Ray vision? Wouldn't the rest of the eye have to be modified to (lens cornea etc)

Asimov wrote most of that story, well before there was Slashdot, and Anonymous Cowards

It should be the car that is disabled (or your license taken away)

One thing we don't need is longer living fruit flies. What are they going to eat in the winter

Google wasn't around in 1979

HMS Terror sounds like a typical name for a warship.
and as for Erebus, well nobody had even heard of that Antarctic volcano until flight 901 hit it in 1979

The actual cards would be those 80 column things that the ancient languages were stored (and inpuy) on.