Who cares? Nobody's going to read it.

Well I'm glad Slashdot headlines are at least becoming honest about the substance-free stories we've been seeing lately.

When I stick a dvd in my computer and hit "play with vlc" I never seem to have this problem

You're saying that SABRE works well in theory, then you say that scramjets, despite working well in theory, are much more difficult in practice. This doesn't make SABRE a better design. It just means that SABRE's engineering difficulties have not yet been demonstrated by actually flying.

Or an attack on the nice big crowd waiting in the tsa checkpoint line.

That's datawinders, actually.

Newton didn't predict elliptical orbits. He explained them after Kepler observed and computed them.

You'd of course need enough antimatter to balance the weight of the car. Let's call it 1500 kg of antimatter per car. Multiply by 2 for two cars and by 2 again for the mass of normal matter gives 6000 kg total being annihilated. That has an energy equivalent of 5*10^20 joules, which per wikipedia was the total world energy consumption in 2010. This is also equivalent to about 10^5 megatons of TNT or 2000 Tsar Bombas.

Maybe any number of crazy things happen beyond our cosmological horizon. We'll never see them so it's not relevant. The observable universe is matter-dominated.

Guy who was late to the party says the party was boring anyway.

That's an interesting point. It's worth noting, though, that most of those astronauts wrote memoirs decades after their flights. Maybe in another ten or twenty years we'll see more writings from current astronauts and space tourists.

If the cost were that low, and I had the money somehow, I'd love to spend it on a few weeks in orbit. However, recognizing how much harder it is to get into orbit than to just go straight up, I have strong doubts that costs won't be a factor of 10 or 100 higher. Also, since it's already taken more than twice as long as originally projected for this thing to be ready, I wouldn't expect anything orbital before 2020 or so.

2011? I remember when they were saying 2007.

You can still find them if you dig hard enough. "Unfortunately" the music doesn't work in my browser but you can always click the link at the bottom for a sample.

This is the World Wide Web. Gore's "invention" was the internet.