I'd point out that in order to run a marathon, you have to train for a marathon. Walking is not a very suitable means of doing this.

When training for a marathon, walking is a very good training step when you are a 1 year old human.
WRT to space flight, we are at the 1 year old human stage. We've taken a couple of hundred 'steps'. Not quite mastered the concept yet.

If the sperm donor can be positively identified, yes they can go after him.
Kansas, last year. Lesbian couple want a child. They enlist a male friend to provide the sperm.
A couple years later, the female couple breaks up. The custodial mom applies to the state for financial aid. The state goes after the sperm donor for recompense. And gets it in court.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/...

I believe there was a similar case in Sweden a couple of years ago.

4 months ago, I upgraded the Verizon FiOS router from the initial crappy one, to a zippy n router. WiFi performance increased significantly. No change from 50/50 needed. And no need to speak to a Verizon rep. Just order it online, it arrives in the mail, done.
And the $100 payment was spread across 3 months of Verizon bills.

Of course the sales guy is going to say that. He earns a gold star for every upsell.

What if the kid can't read? Is disabled ot live in some backwater like Appalachia were ignorance is a virtue.

Or NYC, or LA, or Chicago. Willful ignorance is not limited to the backwaters of 'Appalachia '.

Very, very few people have 'hundreds' of actual friends. Facebook 'friends', maybe. IOW, people you've never met.

It would actually be worse. If I had to pay the legal fees of X Corp if I lost, I'd probably be far less inclined to take them to court.
Currently, all I'd have to pay is my legal fee, and whatever fine may be imposed.

If I had to pay their legal fee as well...I'd probably think twice.

5 corporate law talking guys x 2 weeks x $200/hour each....a single individual would be screwed if he lost.
Now..if we stipulate that the 'winner' gets no more 'legal fees' than the loser paid to his legal team....that might be different. But that brings its own issues.

A large company would be able to financially destroy an individual, depending on the outcome.

You may think you have a valid case. But could you pay for the legal fees of Sony/Visio/Target/AMD if you lose?

"And it just so happens", that is was designed to be in orbit around this comet. It wasn't just shot up at random, and "just happened" to fall into orbit around this comet.

Who writes this crap?

I'd wonder if it would almost make sense to make it 100% tunnels and have it in a vacuum.

Probably tripling the cost.

About the distance from New York City to Baltimore. Or Seattle, WA to Portland OR.
$100bn, just to get there a leeeetle bit faster.

Possibly because a lot of people have drugs or drug residue on them?
I am in no way saying that cops never plant. Not even a little bit. I'm quite sure they do.
But a lot of people do actually have drugs on them or in the car.

That leads to a whole different discussion of "If so many people do it, why is it still illegal?"

'Mail' does not get delivered directly to the White House.
It first goes to an off-site location to be checked.

When it's a second disc with a copy of files from the first disk, or a raid-0 mirror disk.

And that is sooo wrong. RAID 0 is not a mirror of any kind.

Raid 1 - data is mirrored across multiple drives
RAIND 0 - data is striped across multiple drives.

"Seriously though, lack of FM is not a safety risk. That's absurd. if they're really concerned, then have them blast out a text message if there is an issue."

I merely commented to the fact that a text message device is not always available.