I just love how the highly compromised F-35 is now up to about $115-$140M each, while the horribly overpriced but unquestionably best fighter in the world F-22 is now looking almost affordable at a cool $150M.

Then again, not sure I'd question canceling most of these programs. In the future fighters will probably only be needed for interception (assuming stealth isn't totally defeated by S/A missiles) - attack roles will be mostly drones that will cost a tiny fraction of these costs...

No, that's just not true in the slightest, since we are talking where it was built. Boeing is hugely overwhelmingly built in the US, and Airbus in Europe (as much by political decree as anything but it's a fact).

The Galaxy is utterly different than a passenger plane like the 747.

Significantly slower, worse safety record, horribly worse range (you don't want to be in-flight refueling every 2500 miles), and in no way adapted to a 2-level, passenger focused layout they obviously want in "Air Force One". Not to mention the last C-5 was built in 1989. They just don't want to recondition a 25 year old plane as the flagship aircaft of the United States...

Yeah, duh, that was the joke...

Except for that episode that created two Rikers...

When those people are some of the most senior at Google and they have practically given up on it, yeah, it is evidence. Hell, one of them *ran* Google's apps and ad business for almost a decade...

True about the URL - but also of my 20-ish G+ friends, almost half are GOOGLE EMPLOYEES (and ALL are techies). And among them I only have 4 posts in the last month.

Except the "inane people" on FB are 10x more populous and 20x more likely to click on ads. The market doesn't give a shit about "technical communities", it cares about eyeballs.

My point was people did use it in many applications (church as well as science) back in the 1600-1700s when it was first used to name species.

And not speaking it in normal conversation doesn't mean it isn't or wasn't used. There are many thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?) of scholars *now* who can read it in order to read and study old texts. And in the 1600's when the biological taxonomy was first established, Latin was literally the common written language between scientists of a dozen different countries who may not even have been able to communicate any other way.

Yet none of your points has remotely disproved the green cheese hypothesis...

FTL is great, but this sounds more like MOO than FTL.

Gotta say, I hope they keep the ship design/customization relatively straightforward. In theory in MOO/GalCiv/etc was cool, but the tech tree/dev was so fast paced I always felt like ships were obsolete by the time you finished building them.

Sorry, but this dude looks like he works out 2 hours a day, and I think I heard him grunt when he picked it up. If the 5" thick body didn't already discredit that term (note: the original IBM Portable was NOT A LAPTOP).

You'd probably get bruises on your thighs if you put this on your lap, if you didn't get 2nd degree burns before that...

I don't disagree that coal has had more effect than nuclear on the environment, but your "fact" is completely wrong. Kind of sad, since if you had just kept to the facts it would have been a decent point.

And yes, the top 3 Google results (as per your suggestion) say you are wrong. Feel free to find a citation that contradicts your suggestion, though.

Meh. I'm sure there were many cases of species altering the ecology. It wasn't worldwide and (semi-)permanent until MUCH later. We didn't name an Epoch just because a particularly large population of predatory mammals reduced the population of prey in a region (which happens all the time).

Except it's not really using a *dead* language, it's using a popular academic language that was chosen back when people still LEARNED AND READ LATIN (and really, one with a structure that lends itself particularly well to the purpose).

Your current perspective on it is about as useful as someone 150 years from now saying "why they hell did we standardize one the metric system when we could have used plenty of other systems of measure?"