Come now. How and why would we shoot Venus and Mercury into the Sun?

I can think of a reason: The good of the country and its peoples are best served by having a long copyright.

Of course, I'm not saying I agree with that reason, or that it is true in any way. However, if it were true, then a politician would be doing exactly the right thing in supporting it.

Concrete is often deliberately cracked to allow for thermal expansion and contraction. That's why we have lines on the sidewalks and joints in the roads. These bacteria would fill those in and cause heaving.

Meh! Ship the whole lot back to Vega if they don't want to live here.

It's an object lesson in using pure assembly. By the time you get anything useful done, technology has moved on.

Pretty soon Penny's shoe app will become a reality.

The returning officer could just enter the voter's jurisdiction into a website and print a ballot, which the voter would take into the booth, fill out, and deposit into the ballot box. What's so hard about that?

What's to prevent a hacker from inserting votes into the system? Granted, there is a mechanism for detecting if votes are deleted, but it relies on people checking their vote receipt against a website. The bulk of the population is not going to do that, so a hacker has fairly high probability of being able to delete votes without being detected. And what happens when a hack is detected? Is there a way of determining how many of the ballots are tainted? Do you run the election again, or go with the results of the untainted ballots?

Maybe there is more to this system than was explained in the video, but It doesn't seem entirely bombproof at first glance.

As opposed to the right, who vote for someone OTHER THAN friends, family, strangers, etc?

I don't see why "out of town" should be an excuse. Voting is done country-wide on the same day, is it not? Polling stations should have (and probably do have) policies and procedures for handling an out-of-area voter.

Bee colonies. Individual bees don't really matter, apart from the queen. That 40% of bee colonies are dying off when it used to be about 10% is troubling.

How can you have seasonal spikes in yearly figures?

So you're saying this is a propaganda piece by "big corn" who want to jack up the price of honey so more people switch to corn syrup? Diabolical!

And how, exactly, does that affect the many solar powered devices around the planet? Or the microhydro sites and small scale wind turbines? Or the RGT powered lighthouses and research equipment?

There's lots of stuff designed to be off the grid, or to work specifically when the grid fails, so the loss of the grid is definitely NOT "it".

Nope. Static electricity. One bell is positively charged, and the other negatively. The clapper is attracted to one of the bells, gets charged and is thus repelled. It is attracted to the other bell, where the charge is dissipated and the clapper picks up the opposite charge. The cycle then repeats.