Thats no way to talk about your wife...

I have to disagree. Or at least I am an outlier. I have been playing video games since pong (my school had a pinball machine (cost a dime!) and a pong cocktail table game in the HS student lounge and I would play every day after school (this is late 70s). During the 80s I lived in the local arcade, owned most every home console system (and still do plus all the ones in between). I have been playing video games for over 3 decades now. And I have been playing WoW pretty much since launch. I have been a hardcore raider and I have been a purely casual player ( and I currently sit somewhere in between). WoW makes plenty of sense to me, but then again, I also have an extensive pen and paper RPG background as well.

What part of 'Beta' did you not understand?

... after all, I did this in a RIFTS campaign years ago to set up a global communications network for our group :)

Yes.. I am a huge geek. Thanks for asking.

A reusable space vehicle which could be launched to retrieve or repair the satellite...

is that all? I have about 12,000 hours in World of Warcraft over the last 5 and a half years :)

I am still waiting for my Call of Duty: Grenada.

Actually we could get to the another solar system like Alpha Centari with current (either existing or in testing) technology, but it would take a while (like a century or two) and be almost 5 years before any data came back after that.

Sorry.. Tom Baker was the best Doctor... Troughton was good, too.