I do not believe that most colleges have endowments "in the billions". Many have less than one billion.

As an American who routinely has to use feet, inches, fractions of an inch, square feet, square inches, cubic feet, gallons, lbs force, lbs mass, ounces mass, watts, kilowatts, horsepower, btuh, boiler horsepower, square feet EDR, psi, feet of water, inches of water, inches of mercury, mm of mercury, atmospheres, etc., converting back and forth within the customary US units is a pain in the ass, no matter what you say. Converting to metric, doing the math, then converting back can sometimes be easier.

. . . parts that are eagle to congenitally made parts . . .

Let me guess, you're using voice recognition software?

You are correct, except in your definition of a Ponzi scheme. Simply paying people out of current receipts is not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme involves creating the illusion of high returns on investment by paying out the capital from new investors and calling it profit on the old investments while claiming that all of the original investments are still there. The difference is that Social Security does not claim you have any capital invested nor that you are making any profit - it has always been portrayed as paying current retirees from a tax on current workers (albeit, with some money put aside to smooth out the highs and lows caused by the employment and retirement numbers). The numbers can deceive people about the federal budget deficit, but it is not a Ponzi scheme by Social Security.

Of course that should all still be dwarfed by the social security budget, and in that, not just social security to elderly.

Actually, until very recently, the Social Security budget was running in the black and contributing to the ability of the US government to spend. Unfortunately, all of the Social Security surplus was invested, in accordance with the law, in US Treasury bonds, and those debts were not counted as part of the federal budget deficits. So the problem is not in the Social Security budget, per se, but in Congress having already spent all of the Social Security surpluses of the past.

It wasn't some media poll leading up to the election. It was election-day results from the eastern states, where the polls had already closed, and exit-polls from the western states, where polls were still open. Many people decided not vote after work since Reagan had already been declared the victor before their polling places closed.
Actual election results come in a lot faster now than they did in the '50s.

TheIr gunowners are actually a well regulated militia.

By your description, it sounds pretty boring to me. Though when my kids were in a certain age range, I'm sure they would have loved it, and I would have been happy to take them to see it.

I'm assuming that there would also be the latency between the end user and the ground antennae using terrestrial copper and fiber, otherwise this would be a mostly one-way internet. I doubt the individual would have the power to upload a fast stream directly to the satellite.

It wasn't enough partially because Reagan pushed the other way, against the metric system.

What a lot of attempts could do is drain the budget of the TSA and of airlines: overwhelming the staff with hundreds or thousands of false positives over a day or a week would cost the TSA and the airlines many millions of dollars

And, yet, my company is involved in upgrades to a few (checked) baggage screening systems where one item of contention is the new EDS (Explosion Detection System) design criteria that have more than double the number of alarms requiring rifling throu - - I mean, requiring manual screening of the luggage. (This is a problem because it requires at least double the number of workers and workstations, and they won't really fit in the existing space available.)
Anyway, thousands of false positives a day is already par for the course in busy airports.

What you are both missing is that in those times "virgin birth" was used as an acclamation of greatness for other people as well.

If you look at stories from the times, many great men were called son of god or son of man and many were heralded as having been born of virgins. Jesus of Nazareth was not unique in that respect.

We only have permanent bases in countries that have welcomed us, with open arms, to build those facilities.

The Germans and Japanese certainly welcomed us with arms, but I wouldn't call the the welcome "open", more like "open fire".

Who says it was the cash register receiving e-mails? It may well have been the back-end server, which, for small businesses, could easily be a regular PC, maybe even dual purposed as the owner's workstation.