But you're leaving out the previous 20+ years spent developing systems that were never finished.

4: How flammable is it? Diesel is flammable, but gasoline not just has liquid, but gasoline vapors give a risk of explosion.

Technically, Diesel is combustible, not flammable; gasoline is flammable.
YMMV

Unfortunately this announcement comes from the executive branch of the US government. Many of us have developed zero trust in anything coming from DC.

So what about the report coming from the government of the state of Oklahoma, which says basically the same thing?

It's not the fracking per se, it's the deep well injection of waste water. True, fracking creates waste water that usually gets disposed of by injecting it into deep wells, but in the subject case 4/5ths of the waste water comes from old regular wells. Apparently the cost of oil is high enough that it is worth it to go after oil that is contaminated by water, extract the water, and sell the oil.

So lets say I have a standing order to buy FooBar stock at $50 a share. Its current price is $55. So basically I'm looking to buy on dips. Tonight it comes out that the CEO has been falsifying all financial reports, and instead of making money for the last 3 years they've lost millions. You don't think I should be able to cancel that buy order due to the new information?

You're missing the part where he cancelled after having his offer accepted, and did so repeatedly, with no intention to sell, until he drove the price enough to make stacks of cash from futures.

Putting it on the ISS also gets you the advantage of being able to more easily target junk on orbits that may intersect with the orbit of the ISS.

Was a simple, after-school detention not an option for some reason?

Been there. Done that. Three strikes and you're out. (RTFA)
Still, a felony seems awfully harsh.

Half life from the main atmospheric process is about 10 years, but some of that carbon in CH4 eventually becomes carbon in CO2. (Considering all sinks, the half life is about 8-1/2 years, according to wikipedia.)

Maybe because the US, Liberia, and Myanmar are the only 3 countries in the ENTIRE WORLD that have not officially converted to metric.

On the contrary, the US officially defines feet, inches, pounds, etc. in SI units (and has for quite a number of years). So in that sense, the US is on the Metric system.

There are advantages to shared libraries, as others have pointed out, but the GP never said anything about statically linked libraries, let alone recommending them.

You got it backwards. They had been asking: If the moon was made by collision of two different planetary bodies, why are their compositions so similar to each other? Previous studies have indicated that mixing of the materials from the two bodies doesn't resolve the issue. Now a study has come out with simulations of solar system formation showing that a potential Thea and a potential Earth often have very similar compositions, therefore the similar composition is not inconsistent with the collision theory after all.

Besides, $10 billion is literally less than what Americans spent on Starbucks coffee last year alone.

So, I'm not allowed to argue against excessive Starbucks spending, either?
Personally, I'd rather argue against both. (I have no problem losing a good argument, if you can convince me $10 billion was really worth it for the experience, but I don't think any one in this thread has the actual information to know one way or the other.)

Phase I is a prototype/proof of concept. After that, the government project managers make a decision about whether the product is good enough to warrant Phase II funding. If it is, they go ahead and fund it. If it's REALLY good, they do a Phase III which is basically a commercialization.

Problem is, most of these got well beyond Phase 1 without a chance in hell of ever getting to Phase 3, and still got plenty of funding that would have been better spent in Phase 1.
(Additionally, I would argue that you may need another Phase category - basic research/proof of concept would be Phase 1, and a prototype more of Phase 2)

What kind of "heating products" are you talking about? Because the projects I've worked on located in earthquake-prone areas used essentially the same products as elsewhere, but added more bracing, additional/independent hangers for ceiling-mounted items, constrained vibration isolators, etc.

Is it because they're whores and will do anything for loose change? That's pretty much my standard answer for any headline in the format "Why is blank blanking?"

Actually, in this case, TFA gives a different answer: Because McCarthy has been pushing patent reform legislation.