One hundred million unorganized, inebriated, confused, uncoordinated, ill disciplined bozos who haven't slept outside of a building since cub scouts.

Yeah, I'll take the military any day.

The interesting thing with these facilities is that they all have fences and barb wire facing inwards - not to keep people out, but to keep people in.

"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity"

Heinlein

Mr. President! We must not allow a mine-shaft gap!

Hitler tried very hard to ally with the US (against GB and France) prior to the onset of WW2. Later on he tried to play everyone against each other to gain some time.

This sort of thing happens all of the time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all correct.

But you can make a Beowulf cluster out of this.

And that has to count for something.

Yep, boiling the raw egg in urea would probably turn the Salmonella into harmless bits.

Your GI track, not so much.....

I'm sure that the White House has seen the technical manual on how to deal with this problem.

Defense in depth, as it were.

You're on the 'I flunked physics last week list'.

A degaussing coil big enough to fry hard drives on drone?

That's one impressive drone there....

Jelly? WTF?

Whiskey.
Let's get adult here.

It certainly won't knock 'humanity off the face of the earth' but it could well cause significant population and natural resource competition.

Guess what two of the most common reasons for human warfare are?

Heroine's are OK under the proper circumstances but they tend to be all bossy and in charge of things, after all, they are the heroes.

You just did.

Is this a trick question? Something from Common Core?

Was I left behind as a child?

BIG rotors made of aerogel.

But I agree, what NASA needs is God's Little Toy from Pattern Recognition (W. Gibson, I think it's that book).

Basically a blimp with a camera. It could even be tethered.

Come on. You're blaming people not being able to handle qualitative and quantitative explosions in information (if not knowledge) on the family (or lack thereof)? Yes, family is important. No, family is not (and historically has not been) the general arbiter or source of most information. You're confusing family with society, especially pre literate society.

How in bog's green earth is any sort of family unit supposed to deal with the current knowledge set? Hell, even a university level professor can barely keep track of what goes on in their own field.

I think you're conflating a series of basic homilies and perhaps moral constructs (as useful and as important as they are) with knowledge. They are different concepts.