$1000 is way too much. I can build one for $300 that can take off, take (waypoint/altitude) mission off an Android device or PC (wireless). Navigate all on its own, trigger a few relays or servos (to do what ever) come back and land. Fly time around 17-20 minutes with a payload of 500g and a total weight of say 1.5 kg.

Sir you misunderstood the article, its about how bad people abuse anything they can. Now you aren't saying guns are bad just because Al Qaeda uses them or food is bad, bad people eat food to stay alive There... cognitive dissonance resolved.

yet not a single thing from MH370 was found

Bungie called, said you were a naysayer. They also politely asked to wait for their earnings report.

Touche

The whole thing has macabre connotations, reminds me of the popular (in 90s) Russian novel "Omon Ra" - a fictitious noir account of Soviet space program, where one of the stages of preparation for the flight "To The Cosmos" was amputation of both legs - in order to fit into a small rocket...

I feel like Sheldon invited for a spaghetti and hot dogs...

>It's a poor leader who can't convince the majority of the populace to follow

That's sounds so arbitrarily insane that I lost interest to anything you might say on this subject

I do not believe in democracy. I do not believe general population should play any role in making complex important decision. It should be left to technocrats and leaders, true leaders.

I state again: if someone wants to know about science, he should study science. All those colorful analogies do not worth a damn, they do not increase understanding of public, their only purpose is infortainment like news or weather.

I never liked so called popularizers of science. You know who is the best popularizer of science? Good lecturer at the university.

Kapitsa Junior was a Professor giving lectures to fellow students from the same year. They bloody moaned from his inept lectures. On the TV he was an established host of the popular sci program, in the classroom he was nobody.

Feinman was never a popularizer like Sagan. He was a brilliant lecturer for people who want know, who were serious about physics.

Sagan, Dawkins, etc are all from the same cohort of nobodies.

Perspective is always justified. Alarmism is not. I have heard Ebola jokes on Friends....

One of the first known quarantines was established by Umar ibn Khattab, second Khalifah, radhi Allahu anh, due to the plague that hit Hijaz during his Khilafah.

> "Because they are no longer reporting to Wall Street, they can be more competitive."

Paraphrasing popular song: "If you love your company, do not let it go"

If making ridiculous extrapolations to the future without any backlash from scientific community is possible, then _everything_ is possible.

As a regular at the Moosque I'd rather be interested in the opposite device converting speech into breath.