Look, comcast is a private company that exists to make money.
Stop right there. In the interest of honest logical discussion, Comcast is not a private company. They are publicly traded and all such corporations exist, in the words of some dude I once worked for, to make money for the shareholders.
at the precipice of become spacefaring people. Mega volcano? Mega landslide in Hawaii? Defrosting Russian permafrost? Global warming? Comet? Meteor? Gamma ray burst? Solar flare?
Pick one and we're screwed. Sadly all we care about it the latest trinket to amuse our monkey brains while we imagine we are safe from all danger. somehow. maybe.
Space stations are shiny.
Someone has probably mentioned this but I can't be arsed to look at everyone else's comments:
What do you bet NASA didn't do their conversion to metric right in their computational modeling?
1) Give children in third world countries old computers
2) Get children addicted to Oregon Trail
3) Watch children forego sex, and therefore reproduction, in favor of Number Munchers
4) Profit!
It's bullet-proof!
That's Numberwang!
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
