I knew I should have looked it up before posting...

Two words: Gorilla arm

Given what we know (and obviously don't know) about the NSA, how can you come to that conclusion? It's not like we're going to brag about it if we're doing it...

Lighten up, Francis...

One would think...

But in reality, what would happen now if he mysteriously ended up dead of a 'heart attack'? There would be widespread speculation and even outcry in many circles (/. among them), but at the end of the day it would be business as usual. The US public still lacks the will to do anything to change the situation.

Bring 'em on...

In another link above, if you assigned a machine (virtual or no) a new IP address every picosecond for the next trillion years you still wouldn't even come close to running out of IPv6 addresses.

I think about the only way we would run out is if, thousands of years from now, we start colonizing other galaxies. And by then I would hope the Internet would have been replaced...

Shhh, you're ruining the narrative...

Also: Clever troll is clever.

There are enough IPv6 addresses available to give each and every of the 7+ Billion humans alive today 4.6 x 10^28 addresses

Or as someone else put it, The earth's surface area is about 510 trillion square meters. If a typical computer has a footprint of about a tenth of a square meter, and we stacked computers 10 billion high blanketing the entire surface of the earth, that would use up one trillionth of the address space.

I seriously doubt we're in danger of running out in the next millennium or two.

FTFY

I'll third this. We bought my son a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit for Christmas a year or two ago and I'm amazed at all the stuff you can do with it. Very easy visual programming "language" but it can do a huge variety of cool stuff. He already built a robot that analyzes and solves Rubik's Cube with only one kit (using plans he found online). It's great for teaching theory and fun to play with.

When you outlaw cars, only outlaws will have cars.

Pretty sure he meant Bruce Willis...

If faced with the extinction of the human race, let's send as many as necessary to nearly guarantee destruction/deflection of the asteroid. If that means one or two accidentally explode on launch, so be it. Besides, a nuclear missile exploding probably doesn't mean a nuclear detonation. Scattered radiation, sure, but not a nuclear detonation. Better than losing all of us.

"Live long, and prosper" - Gandalf