That would be stupid. Airbus is not considering Delta or Atlas for launches, so why should they count? This is strictly a SpaceX vs Ariane contest.

PETA in a cage. Now that would be ironic.

Apples and Oranges. ISIS and the Taliban are all about destruction. It's what they do. Greenpeace, on the other hand, is about preservation and conservation.

Either someone called their bluff, or the mirrors are on a need to know basis and you don't need to know.

Maybe the problem isn't the cops so much as the recruitment techniques. If the good guys aren't applying, you won't get good cops.

YES! Some of us don't want or need to clutter our mindspace with such trivia. If we need to know, we'll just google "scientific journals not worth their salt" or text scijourn to 1-800-Got-Salt.

You pay your actors, your crew, etc exactly the same way you do now. Producing a movie, or a TV show is not a guarantee of income. It is a gamble. You may wind up with a "Raiders of the Lost Ark", or you may wind up with a "The Postman". Whether you do or not doesn't depend on piracy/copyright infringement. It depends on you putting together a good story.

Piracy isn't putting content developers out of business. Piracy is a result of content producers ignoring a revenue stream by not making content available at the price consumers are willing to pay.

Hey, it's not our fault you don't have a mechanism to collect dimes.

The NSA doesn't run botnets... well, not many, anyways. However, they do analyze botnets completely and thoroughly, and thus they can take command of known botnets in a heartbeat if the need arises.

Wrong robot. It's Curiosity that's in the alleged lake bed, not one of the MERs (Spirit or Opportunity)

The spot on Mars was not picked at random. It was picked because the overall geomorphology suggested that there may have been liquid water there in the past.

Don't be ridiculous. Americans would never stand for these things. That's why the government is focussed on facial recognition. Why provoke a violent backlash when you don't need to? Everyone has a face. Everyone has a cell phone. Ergo, everyone's is tagged by voice, appearance, and location already.

Some people have no imagination when it comes to technology.

Don't tell him that. We'll always need mindless drones to work the mines.

The Constellation Program... Riiight! The orbit that Ares I would have put the Orion module into had a negative perigee. That means crash into the Earth. But that's okay. The test flight showed that it would have shaken the crew to pieces. Oh, and if they had to abort, the heat from the flaming solid rocket fuel would have melted Orion's parachutes. Not bad for a $14billion rocket. Ares V could have carried it easily, but the cost of the Ares V was upwards of $20billion to develop and half a billion per launch. By the way, that would have taken all the money NASA had. No more telescopes. No money for Mars rovers, comet missions, or other such plans.

Constellation deserved to be axed. There were cheaper plans out there. Plans that would have eliminated the gap in American space flight capacity. Plans that would have put us on the moon for a third of the $35billion dollar Constellation program.

That was the plan long before the current president began "running" things.