The Great Filter is what I was thinking here too. Find aliens more advanced than us? Good, we may well make it there ourselves! Find that we're the most advanced things around? The odds are no longer in our favor.

...addressing the common theme in the above comments collectively. Trying to make people act less anti-social, in a privately run setting, is horrible censorship and a terrible evil? Trying to get people to act civilly is more unethical than telling people to kill themselves? Are you serious? I hope you don't take that approach raising kids, or managing workers. Jesus Christ.

The stars that come after ours won't have meaningfully different metallicity, so no. Population is not (strictly) generation.

According to ancient alien theorists...

Some people get annoyed thinking that electrical positive/negative charges should be reversed, or that pi would be more useful if we used a multiple of it. My pet peeve is star population labeling. Our current generation of stars (and all future ones) are Population I. The immediately previous one is Population II, and the very first stars are Population III.

I know there's history there... Pop I and II were labeled without regard to which ones actually came first, and Pop III wasn't visible by telescope when the others were discovered so we had to add them later, but come on. Have some dignity and reverse them, even if you need to create a new term instead of population to do it.

Huh, I just read this article in a "history nerd" mindset.

Sliders, Seaquest and SG-1 were all awesome in the early season(s) before they turned into boring war things. Deep Space 9 actually pulled off the transition.

Probably a lot of responses will say that the delivery guy never comes up to the door, and probably a lot of them are right, but whatever helps. Some local friends had problems with delivery people knocking too quietly, maybe intentionally, who knows. They put up a sign on their door saying "Knock like this door is everyone who ever wronged you", and suddenly delivery people actually make noise! The novelty factor probably helps more than anything else.

You wouldn't teleport a car.

C'mon guys, read the thing. They modified a LOT of genes, to the point where even several mutations wouldn't make it viable. Statistics really is in our favor on this one.

It's Bellevue. Getting a billion packages a day is normal, though they're usually from Amazon.

I adore watching speedruns. Okay, it's not the Olympics, but it's still fun to watch someone demonstrating a lot of skill.

Also to make streaming more personal--I remember that Zork: Grand Inquisitor had a multiplayer mode. It's your standard Mystlike first-person puzzle game, but you could let someone be a backseat driver, talk to you, point at things. It's not for everyone, but if you actually liked playing those games as a group and someone's moved across the country...yeah, pretty nice.

Fine, you can hide from it if you know what they're using and you know they're after you right now and you are willing to stay in an inconvenient spot. I don't think that's most situations, and water heaters probably aren't the best tactical positions, so the theoretical bad guys still suffer from the availability of this thing.

And that is the reason why I'm not sad to see the use of this stuff become more advanced and more widespread. This device wouldn't have prevented that--kid in a crib isn't moving around--but if they could actually see stuff through walls, or at least spot heat signatures (yeah I know it's really damn hard), that would be a great tool in a SWAT team's kit for minimizing fatalities on both sides. Restrict it to entry warrants and I don't see a problem.

Okay, fine, I'm going by anecdotes. But did you seriously just argue based on "I haven't read the same comments as you, it so it must not be true"?