The problem with your dialogue is the underlying premise is wrong. There is nothing in Christianity that forbids or blocks science. Quite to the contrary, as good Stewards, Christians are called to reach out and forward. (And have, we just don't go around shouting “Eureka I have found it, and by the way I am a Christian”)

You can point out the ‘Dark ages’ of the faith, but my pointing out the ‘Dark ages’ of other systems would be akin to shooting fish in a barrel.

Sorry you are so disgruntled about something faith based, but try to stay logical.

Perhaps you are referring to other Countries in the world where their faith has them stoning, maiming and removing peoples heads.

To be human is to be weak and flawed. Christians are called to acknowledge this and strive to become better than this. It would seem others simple acknowledge and make excuses for the condition.

It is amazing to me Lockheed was not counter balancing the GPS with some sort of Inertial Guidance system as a sanity check. The computer assumed it was at its point of landing in such short notice? Bad check and balance programing on someones part.

I would Mod you Up, but Slashdot is behaving strangely. The only bizarre part of the 48 volt telecom standard is the positive ground. From an Engineers perspective, no stranger than a negative one though.

Aren't we still measuring CO2 in Parts per Million? http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Pick up an Amateur Radio License and install a APRS beacon.

I have not seen footage like this since the Reaction Research Shot! Love the mechanical "noise" in the absence of air. With Frank Kosden gone, I have to wonder, who built the motor for you?

Again Excellent!

With all due respect, it is this attitude that supports the use of nuclear arms.

The United States Armed Forces systems bends over backwards to mitigate collateral damage; Despite this goal, the feed back is consistently one where collateral damage reported as a travesty. This makes the goal, one seemly shared by the US alone, as a waste of time and LARGE sums of money.

War is ugly, uglier than anyone wants to admit. Just witness the Taliban, Vietcong, Khmer Rouge, or the freaks who attacked the school in Georgia who go out of their way to inflict civilian damage.

Your picking the wrong side; I am beginning to wish the US was Imperialist pigs we are portrayed as at this point. I hate War, get it done, get it over with.

Interesting that Wiki leaks is revealing (or has revealed) state secret information on countries trying to be democratic like Israel, Jordan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
But countries that blatantly ignore or have questionable human right policies seem to get a pass.
How can you like these guys?

Thanks for the heads up!

Well, logically if you want to blame a single administration, or really a point in time, look to the Urban Renewal and Development Program which looked to loan money to the disadvantaged. Now add Bank deregulation to aid the programs development, regulated capitalism which will punish all Banks which do not play the game, and you have set the stage for the nightmare we are in. A bunch of parties owing money they can never pay back.

Thank you Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich.
Sure there was a surplus....of borrowed money.

Now had the money stayed in the country, it may not have been all the bad, but thanks to Ronald Regan and George H. Bush, money was traded out for foreign goods, many times to countries with less than good intentions for the US.

Now enter dumb and dumber, followers of Keynesian economics. You cannot buy your way out of money being gone by borrowing more money. George W. Bush (large ears) tried with stimulus 1, then Barack Obama (larger ears) with stimulus 2 (now twice as big as stimulus 1).

It's done now, US Presidents where not supposed to have so much power, and that is Congress's fault for not stepping up. You cannot place blame on this Congress's for trying to do what the previous congress failed to even address (even though it was their job, for two years).. And you cannot blame a group of good intentioned people for pointing out the obvious (The Tea party). We are screwed.

Its all about bringing the state change into a temperature zone that can utilized, and it has to be cheap.
Damp Magnesium Sulfate always worked for us.

"I" am ignorant for allowing Banks and Insurance companies (even CNN) author sites that require IE to function properly.

"Others" are much more intelligent than I for futility attempting to get theses sites to function with other browsers.

"Kahn, I am laughing at your superior intellect"

I'm sorry for the quip, but really this has been a reality from even before the internet. At first, CNN (read Cable TV) seemed to straighten out the other big three, now that is toast.

As far as the Birth Certificate goes, I believe the undo attention came when a one million dollar retainer was put in place to protect it. I was latter led to believe that it became two million. Now one has to wonder if this was to divert the attention from something else.

I hope Allen West runs and wins the presidential election. It would go far in erasing much FUD that has been spread through the decade.

Who would have thought people surfing the net with a computer twice as fast as a CRAY1 and with hundreds of millions of bytes of memory would be ridiculed for using a computer that was not up to the task.

Do I detect an Engineer? :-)

While your plan has large issues, it is MUCH better than anything I have seen lately.
Just thinking out loud here:
We could use existing heavy lift bird to get a refueled tank to LEO, but it (the tank) would be a very different monster than the gravity fed one that exists today.
The mount points would have to change, and jigs designed that could be used in orbit to align the mount points up would be a new Engineering project.

On the upside, even though the nozzle geometry of the existing liquid rockets would not probably be optimum for operation in a vacuum, we do not need much energy to get things done as we already are in space.

Heck as the whole platform would be already in orbit, a tank with anything close to the amount of fuel as the original could be viewed as wretched excess.

All in all, I find your idea AWESOME! The more I think about it, the more I like it.