He must also consider the danger that he might NOT be caught, and could end up spending the rest of his life on a big pile of money.

There is a problem with a restaurant on the moon: good food, but no atmosphere.

That depends. Is it an African or European airplane?

The next step is to have this little airplane carry a small rechargeable battery from my house to the power line. It would charge itself and the battery, then return the battery to my house and pick up the next battery that needs recharging. Obviously I would need to make some kind of coconut battery holder so that the plane could grip it by the husk.

No, this is not a flaw in TOR. As has been stated in a previous post, the purpose of TOR is not security, but anonymity. If you want to have a secure connection, use an SSH tunnel (for continuous communication) or encrypted email (for a one-time secure message). Note that both of these protocols offer security, but not anonymity. If you want security and anonymity together, I suppose you could create an SSH tunnel through TOR, but performance would obviously suffer.

I can drive for 8 hours and not leave my State

I used to have a car like that.

That's to distinguish it from all those certain economic times, where everyone knows the next day's stock market results, lottery numbers, winning horses, etc.

From the article:

"Proving that you don't need Google's billions ... [they] followed the progress of their balloon using high tech sensors communicating with Google Earth."

Maybe they did need Google's billions.

Walk 5 minutes or train 1 hour. Man, how fast do you walk?

The "Last" conference is set for last year? Ironic.