Two points: First: The physics didn't clearly show that it was impossible: only that the black holes created would dissipate. Second: Since when can you convince the ignorant of anything using physics and logic? It wastes your time and annoys the pig. (Never try to teach a pig to sing.) "You can't win with these people." - "Paul"

Ahh. The opposite of religion: the Perfect Product. Invent something that no one ever expects to see and charge them a tenth of their wealth and their soul. Fusion creates enormous amounts of wealth with the belief in a product that is guaranteed to produce something in an infinite time scale. huh.

Buying milk from a farmer. Pretty much everything a farmer does is illegal in one way or another. http://www.acresusa.com/books/closeup.asp?action=search&prodid=1601&catid=&pcid=2

Well, the patent system is a reflection of a time when we needed to encourage the use of resources to fill up an 'empty' (sigh) frontier with white folk and their gadgets. The concept fails when applied over an open-ended time frame. You either have to accept that everything is already in the public domain or that 'property' (intellectual or otherwise) is a process of denying resources from some in order to increase their price (perceived value, not actual value). Usefulness ("has a use") becomes a moot point. What we need is a restriction that something has to be more useful to the future of the universe than it consumes in resources (including the resources used to get the patent). "Net Useful" or "Net Future Usefulness" ("Future Usefulness"....F.U.....naahhhh ;-).. THEN it might be a useful system. Meanwhile, ideas are like armpits: everyone has at least two and they both probably stink. Don't mortgage the kids on it unless you already own the government and can force people to pay through the tax/debt system.

With enough lawyer money, you probably will. It just might be kinda watered down in the process.

Unfortunately, too much of philosophical teaching and study is devoted to arguing the inane differences between dead philosophers, or their sexual habits. Other big philosophical questions turn into games that nobody can win except choosing to not play the game. I notice you don't mention any farmers with philosophy degrees (I know a couple.) Sometimes, a philosophical honesty kicks in and one realizes that answers that work will be built or grown from the bottom, not dropped from the top, and that humanity just doesn't want to be saved from itself. Philosophy may provide a framework, but random fate decides if people let it remain standing or burn it to the ground with pitchforks and torches. The most effective philosophies will have a fire lit under them to start with. The problem with the Jedi school is that it is made of paper and crayons: many of our modern models of the universe are the same. Being in good company is all that matters to some people, and if we could find more good company, maybe we wouldn't need so many philosophers....

Yes. The education system grew as a product of the culture that wants children to comply with its paradigm of sameness. Technology and consumption have gone way beyond the capabilities of a homogeneous system to adapt to the rate of change. The culture will change again, for better or worse, and the simplest thing to do is stop expecting the trailing edge (teachers) to be the driving force. In a culture of consumption, education only serves to increase consumption. There is no margin where someone gets to ask, "What are people FOR?" or, to be more specific, to say, "What are people good for?" instead of always "What is good for the people we have?" The latter is too often turned into "What do people want?" without asking if people know what is good for them, or what they are good for.

Depends if they nailed it or not.

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Good answer. How much of the conqueror/advanced technology civilizations is actually stolen from their own future? Simple example: monetary debt. Borrowing money is a promise to use resources that one doesn't have yet.

Yes, but when everyone is happy burning up resources as wage slaves, those who suffer climate change and resource depletion are in the future, so it's OK then.

How many cu ft of hyd storage do your 30lb tanks provide?

LOL, yeah. :-) Acetylene is what comes to my mind. Wait until someone drops one of these things on a concrete floor when it is fully charged. oops. What were they working on at that smoking hole?

..as the pro-technology biases of people using the internet. Evil: Any action taken based on unquestioned belief. Beliefs don't matter: actions do. So, everyone got together and decided to believe that a typical tsunami wouldn't occur anymore because they had already built a nuclear plant there, and the alternative would mean not using it. Now that we have no viable alternative to cheap petroleum for running our technology, everyone has chosen to believe that we will somehow change the human species into something that gives a shit about safety over profits. lol

Your depiction of "uninhabitable" is ridiculous. You do know that, don't you? Cattle can be grazed there (what's a dead cow but some more hamburgers?), People can use the space with appropriate warnings about ice conditions, and the windmills can be shut down while the land is harvested or during other events. Sure, some things can go wrong with wind power, but they go VERY wrong with nuclear power.