Yes, I was thinking the same thing. My vote would be for the Buffybot. That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!

A sufficiently massive projectile of sufficient velocity will result in a huge amount of momentum that needs to be conserved. You will either need
1) a very very massive ship,
2) powerful engines,
3) to shoot an identical projectile in the opposite direction, or
4) to live with the fact that you will propel yourself into a much higher orbit, or quite possibly out of orbit

Nuking has its advantages.

I found it worked well enough even with hundreds of concurrent visitors. Even if some connections did fail, it's still better than doing nothing and have all connections to the old IPs fail.

A simple trick I've often used is to port forward traffic from the old IPs to the new. For an an emergency physical move once, I just left behind a linux laptop and it port-forwarded the traffic for multiple web/email/DNS servers until the DNS caught up. Worked fine.

Disease, as in the movie Outbreak.

Widespread acts of terrorism (we could well have seen such a system used on 9/11).

The reason that mankind is unlikely to colonize space is that most alien technological civilizations in the galaxy will have already beaten us to it. People who talk about the scale of distance in interstellar travel often don't appreciate the scales of time that existing civilizations would have had to work with. Even at just 1% the speed of light, you can colonize the entire galaxy in less than 10 million years. That's nothing when you consider that another civilization could easily be up to a half-billion years older than us.

If smartphones were prohibited in court, then wouldn't that make it harder to convict somebody of stealing smartphones, due to the lack of evidence the prosecution could present?

So chances are we'll never be able understand it. Shaka, when the walls fell.

Gun laws simply disarm honest people. That is it. there is no other use.

So, basically you're saying that people are better off being shot accidentally or by a first-time offender, than by a career criminal.

Spain *are* a much better team than Switzerland and this system would show that. Have them play a thousand times, and Spain would win the vast majority. So I'm not sure I see your point.

You do make a good point about Italy. However I'd be interested to see what the system actually says about Italy before condemning it.