Only if you want everyone squashed to a jelly. The point behind the continuous acceleration, flip, and continuous deceleration is to provide a 1G environment so that the passengers/crew experience Earth normal gravity. Coasting along and slowing down with an explosion means years in a zero G environment followed by a gargantuan deceleration. Whatever bones remained within the passengers and crew would be snapped like twigs.

I know we can cut a gene from one DNA source, and splice it into another DNA strand, but that requires a particular sequence of base pairs both in the source DNA and in the target strand. I wasn't aware that we can custom build a DNA strand base pair by base pair. Can you point me to some websites?

Sending people offworld to relieve population growth will never work*. The maximum volume of space that you can cover in a particular span of time is a sphere with a radius of ct (where c=speed of light, and t is time). The volume of the sphere varies as the time cubed. However, population growth is exponential over time. Exponential growth always exceeds geometric growth at some point.

Unless you're shipping off one entire gender.

Are we anywhere near that kind of technology yet?

That's different. Variations in the warp field induce currents in the audio circuitry of the camera - producing the "sound". Everybody knows sound itself doesn't travel in a vacuum. You're hearing a side effect, like phantom pain in an amputated limb.

I would hope that an editor for a NEWS SERVICE would have more sense than that. Altering levels, filtering noises, tweaking, balancing yes, but going to a library of sound effects and overlaying foreign audio and sound effects? I would hope they would only do that under orders from above.

I can see that for fiction shows, but 60 Minutes is a documentary. I would hope that an agency of that calibre (a) wouldn't add sound effects to video and (b) wouldn't hire morons.

SpaceX is not too far from manned launches. Of course, if NASA had gone ahead with Orion and Jupiter-Direct, the US would have manned space flight capabilities by now.

Whoosh!

So how do you loosen the electrons when they get jammed?

No thanks! I'd rather be inside a heavy steel roll cage than be a roll cage for some heavy steel.

But you do have to understand hyperbole.

Maybe it's population explosion, but humans seem to be getting cheaper. Back in the 1970s, $6million only got you two legs, an arm and an eye.

I don't understand rear view cameras... well not the cameras, but the placement of the display screen. When you are backing up, you are supposed to be looking out of the rear window. That would place the dash-mounted display "behind" you. Can you get rear-view cameras where the display is aft of the driver's seat and facing forward so that you can see it when you are backing up?

Or, by killing the human spirit and drive to explore, you could save on the whole kit and kaboodle.