Yes, this is the sort of thing that should grab our attention and cause us to check for abuse of power.

In this case, one of the first steps in investigating is to check who appointed the IRS commissioner.

OK, without studying the science, you can use other heuristics to guess at the credibility of the people involved.

On one hand, you have people saying "We didn't know this for sure until late last century, here are our methodologies, here are several different lines of evidence and how similar their results are, here are our error bars".

On the other hand, you have people saying
o Global warming is not happening
o The global warming that is not happening is being caused by natural sources.
o The global warming that is not happening that is racing ahead because of unstoppable natural forces ended in 1997.
o The global warming that ended in 1997 is still going on because of carbon dioxide from volcanos.
o The carbon dioxide levels, which are going up because of volcanic activity, are not really going up.

Then read a book like _The Climate Coverup_ and find out which side publishes arguments because they test well in focus groups.

Ethylene to get it started.

Setting off a cartridge is a bit like touching a blowtorch to the barrel.

Everyone I've talked to with gunsmithing or general materials engineering knowledge thinks an ABS barrel is not worth trying.

"It's ... it's green."

You can preserve the existing encryption engine by simply using more rounds. The 2-round version has been broken, so cryptographers recommend using the full 16 rounds, as is done in other encryption systems.

In US firearms law it is the receiver that is the identity of a gun.

The immense efforts that go into manipulating eligibility and registration, understaffing polling places in poor areas, and historically even outright violence prove that the powers that be are afraid of voters.

Battle of Blair Mountain.

Than to know what a groundbreaking innovation looks like and how it leverages what came before.

It would be pretty grim for anything near the surface.

Unless you have so little luggage that you can take it to the dining car with you, then get a good bike lock and chain it to the metalwork of the seat/bed.

Anyone doing that today should understand security. If they can't, then they can get help from NIST and/or NSA, or outsource it and make the device maker pay a specialist for an audit.

The superpowers have backed down but there are many more chances for miscalculation today among the smaller nuclear weapons states.

I don't want to be downwind of the next India-Pakistan war.

Ion drives get you delta-V at low cost, but that delta-V takes time. This matters if you have meat sacks on the mission who persist in eating and breathing and need to minimize their exposure to cosmic radiation.