The bias and prejudice that keep women out of IT could be said to be an informal quota system for men. That too should lead to an inferior product.

Diversifying doesn't necessarily mean a quota system, and it can very well be profitable. Like for IBM.

The funny thing is that if you go to Japan, you see these palm readers who set up shop at night on streets, with a tiny booth and everything. I immediately thought of them when I read this.

Add the ability to buy episodes from anywhere in the world, and you got yourself a deal.

So why aren't people complaining loudly about the mine cart ride in Temple of Doom?

This isn't about physics or suspension of belief, really. It's about how nothing can live up to the old movies, because they're heavily steeped in nostalgia.

Like the moral teaching that women are the property of their husbands, or that slavery is fine? There's no reason to live by millenia-old rules just because they're old.

Xbox for an Xbox.

I see two problems here.

Why cut back space programs instead of, say, military spending or bank bailouts? A fraction of either would put humans on Mars and probes on Jovian moons, and a little more cutbacks we'll have us solving climate change as well..

Also, there will always be a promising new propulsion system on the horizon. When you've built a VASIMIR engine, there will be antimatter propulsion, and then some space-bending engine, and then an Infinite Improbability Drive. When do you stop tinkering and simply get your ass to Mars?

"Get your ass to Mars!"

I suggest we rename Uranus to something that will to end that stupid joke once and for all.

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