This is a lot closer to a clay pigeon than an aircraft...

The choice is not to use that steaming pile of crap, which would deny Microsoft their data mining revenue.

And everyone in America forgets how pigeons have a tendency to come home to roost. Remember - they hate you for your "freedoms"!

Of course said drone was snooping in his backyard filming his daughters and looking under his porch, not flying a circuit at 90,000 feet.

You're right. Thanks for the correction.

I might suggest sticking a rocket up their "tailpipe"...

I'm guessing Time Warner is going to be giving all those royalties back?

Not only that, but most people talk about "speed" when they use their computer mainly as a terminal for the WWW. They would probably receive more benefit and apparent "speed" from upgrading their internet speed package instead of buying a faster machine.

Premiums will necessarily drop? What planet do you live on where prices go DOWN? With the great exception of the computer industry, prices are almost always sticky to the upside. Seriously insurance companies would not be so foolish as to price themselves out of the market.

Because they predict things accurately. That's all there is to it.

Ok name me one of the basic physical laws - like say Ohm's law, the gravity law, the charge law, the gas laws, etc that has been proven incorrect. Like I said - we may not understand things completely. We might have to add on to these laws or fine tune them for special cases. But nothing in physics is getting "re-written", although sometimes it gets written in a completely different language depending on the context. However every new addition must necessarily fit within the context of the old. Otherwise how could it exist in our universe? Yes there are places on the map marked "Here Be Dragonnes", but now we know exactly how those dragons must behave. Multiplication does not invalidate addition.

if you reread my post: "near total vacuum". It's empty enough.

Except solar panels lose power over time. You know, entropy and all that. Plus if you're moving away from the very star powering your craft, well then "forever" is not as long as you'd like.

Modern physics is never incorrect. Although it can be misunderstood at times. In the same way that relativity does NOT disprove Newton it confirms it, but extends it. Who would have thought that a little denominator with square root 1-(v squared / c squared) was missing, especially since if v = 0 then the whole denominator ends up being one...which means that all previous laws are valid exactly as they are. Science is not about great schisms where meanings and understandings are suddenly reversed from one generation to the next. That's politics and religion. Science is about progress, with every additional step necessarily building on the steps that were before it. Of course sometimes when you're standing a few steps higher up you get a better overall view of your surroundings and realize that maybe you were misinterpreting a few things before but now you understand them perfectly... until someone comes and puts another little step under your feet and you can see even further...

Oh you'll slow down alright. Eventually. In a spectacular fireworks display when you slam into some planet/star that got in your way... you probably won't be alive by then though.