Another reason: I often have so many tabs open, the tabs often shrink down until they are impossible to read or even click on. But a vertical arrangement would become a scroll area (bonus if I don't have to click on it to scroll it). Or a finger swipe area, on a touchscreen.

Indeed, that last part may be what Google has in mind. Chrome tablets.

I can't disagree with any of those criticisms, but it's not a terrible game. A number of the missions, I thought, were well-done and interesting (though as another poster noted, for every episode, there's a Spock's Brain). There just wasn't enough stuff. After I played through all of the episodes, it became a boring grind.

I quit the game, but I'll go back when I feel they've added enough content to justify paying for another month.

The USB DVD drive Apple sells as an accessory to the Air has no eject button on it.

Not many '59 Bel Airs made it 51 years in running order. Certainly no one in 1959 expected them to last that long.

The trolls will stake out territories early, like a game of Risk, only with Slashdot instead of Kamchatka. We'll know this era as the Internet War.

whitehouse.gov will be an epic battlefield

Somehow I suspect that the astronauts are more in tune with what the engineers think than the executives. The astronauts, after all, generally come from engineering and flight test backgrounds.

I also suspect that the astronauts (some of them, at least) would go even if the odds were 1 in 10, if that was the best the engineers could do.

I'll take my two free points any way I can get 'em.

On a related note, whenever I get mod points, I generally scroll down to the end of the page and look for anonymous or unranked posts most people would miss because they simply don't read that far. Am I accomplishing anything by doing this? Probably not.

If the "bubble" is unstable at superluminal speeds, would this still work as a sublight propulsion system? What properties would that have? Would it still be immune to the effects of relativity?

Exactly. Just don't call him god.

Right, and I got the impression that the show's God (since "it doesn't like to be called that" as Angel Six said) falls into that sufficiently advanced category. Perhaps an ascended survivor of a much earlier cycle of death and rebirth, who still takes interest in the process.