Wrong. The parent would probably be murdered by the government before his children were taken away.

When did sense have anything to do with law?

1 cu. in. should not be a problem for reasonable efficiency; there are good techniques for transferring heat to radiators, etc.

They have images of the probe.

Take a look at those images. They're trying to deduce a whole lot out of perhaps 10 pixels. If they has dropped a Vespa on the surface from 1 km up, it might look the same.

CRTs run up against fundamental laws of physics. One is focusing, bright screens require a lot of electrons per unit time and electrons repel each other. Getting them into a small place (sharp focus) is difficult at best. Another is atmospheric pressure, at 1 ton per square foot big screens need thick glass if they're curved and VERY thick glass if they're flat.

With CRT phosphors, there's always some compromise between ghosting and flicker, and one can't be completely eliminated without worsening the other. There's some possible improvement available with high refresh rates, but before long a high refresh rate multiplied by the number of pixels on the screen results in an unacceptable rate for modulating an electron stream. (This can be reduced with multiple electron guns, but that introduces alignment problems and huge costs.)

All in all, something like a 40" 4k CRT would be enormously expensive, heavy, and a maintenance nightmare.

Interesting. Rails are heavy, and the pressures involved in lifting up a rail due to thermal expansion would cause elastic deformation. If the rail were constrained to not move horizontally, a pressure of about 500 psi would correspond to 1 inch per mile. Not only is that not enough to lift rail weighing 30 lb/ft (about 8.5 sq. in. cross section), it wouldn't support the rail if it were first lifted and then relied upon pressure to keep it up.

There's more to cancer than mutations resulting in fast-reproducing cells, there's also the failure of the immune system to recognize and kill the bad cells. Reducing that failure is one of the techniques/goals of cancer research and life extension in general.

Why, in any discussion of life extension, must someone mention this foolish idea that extending the decrepit years will be the result? Death is not far away when the repair mechanisms have already failed, and that's when the obvious symptoms of aging are apparent. Useful life extension comes from keeping the body healthy and strong for a long time.

^X ^V (cut and paste) is a common operation sequence for moving things from one place to another, particularly in text editing.

It's common practice to provide drawings for many of the more basic nouns, and acorn is a prime example.

To establish a language in a logical manner, something has to be tied to reality. An effort to make a language out of words solely defined by other words is circular, baseless, and futile. Some things must be identified by pointing (illustration) and acorn is a good place for a root.

Essential qualities in a definition are identifying the category to which the word belongs, and the distinguishing characteristic(s) that separate the word from other words in the category. In most contexts, a minnow is a "small fish".

You might not even notice if you ate a single minnow. Scoop 'em up and fry them in hot oil by the bucketful.

The latter is the more honest way of doing it

Such as redefining "liberal" to mean "gun-toting thief who insists that every be disarmed"?

Conforming or restricted to the exact, stated meaning; not figurative or inferred. (Funk and Wagnalls)

One big problem is in law, where fluid words (or especially words with a legal meaning that differs from the common meaning) can cause a person jail time or a lot of lost money.

Seriously?