The electronics and radar have been retrofitted in these planes more than once. For example the F-16 Block 60 has an AESA radar.

The stealth features are controversial in terms of utility. Plus they make these aircraft a pig to maintain.

The F-35 is particularly awful because they tried to make an all services plane out of it. They probably could have made a combined USAF/USN fighter more or less easily. But adding the VTOL requirement for the Marines and the UK was the final straw.

Last time the US tried something like this was with the F-111 and that was a procurement disaster.

I do not know about you but I do not do private conversations using my university e-mail address.

No the backup tapes for the university e-mail system were erased to save money.

Which would be bogus if this was Steve Jobs discussing in an apple.com e-mail with the head of Google of how he shouldn't try to 'poach' employees from Apple. But I digress.

Insecticides never worked properly again since that.

So how arid was planet Earth during the Jurassic when the CO2 levels were higher? I will give you a hint. It was LESS arid than it is today.

The rise in temperature been flat for the last decade. Every single prediction made by anthropogenic global warming I have heard so far has failed. It is junk science.

It is convenient to make a theory that neither explains anything nor can be proven until after you die and your grant money had been already spent.

Yes the CO2 levels increased. Yet the global average temperature did not rise as predicted by the AGW model.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/la...
http://www.nature.com/news/cli...

There is a painting in Venice of a staircase to the canals made a couple of centuries back. The staircase is totally submerged now. The sea level has been rising for a long time. It is not a new phenomenon. What a lot of people disagree on is a) how much of it is actually caused by human activities. b) is it a problem or not.

AGW theory is bullshit because it cannot make long term predictions of climate. It mispredicted the temperature for the entire last decade for example. The model is flawed at best and probably worthless.

97% of Catholic Priests believe in God. News at 11.

throwing a supercomputer at an impossible problem doesn't magically add credibility

Of course it does. The answer is 42.

They already are incredibly cheap to manufacture. How do you think Apple gets all that profit every single year?

Of course if the robots were that good the location where the manufacturing plant is should be mostly inconsequential. Productions could be anywhere with cheap space and electricity. What I suspect will happen, as usually does in any corporation that tries to apply robots to what used to be an all human assembly line, is massive failure and hiring of more indentured servants, er i mean interns.

Yes. Quadcopters are overrated. I remember reading a lot about proposals to make aircraft that can fly in the Martian atmosphere and nearly invariably they had huge wings and lightweight structures. The atmosphere is really low density.

Time to trademark a 'No Glass Allowed' symbol.