So the entire state of NJ is a suburb of NYC, but NYC and other cities could disappear tomorrow and no one would notice?

You're stupid. No wonder we won't let you live in the civilized states. We should stop subsidizing your demented hedonistic debtor lifestyle already.

Those policies would be the ones that stop the state from raising taxes, but insist on spending vast amounts subsidizing oil corps and taking on debt. Oh, and buying energy from protected monopolists like Houston's Enron.

In other words, what's wrong with California is failing to protect itself from what's most wrong with Texas.

Yes, that's why Northern California never builds anything. And why you live inside a a coal plant.

You corporate power worshippers are suicidal.

You Teabaggers are dumber than a broken record.

I don't see the people of Brownsville living adjacent to the launchpad, where they'd get blasted with the noise and exhaust of a giant rocket all the time. Even the ones "looking forward to the jobs, tourists and excitement that a spaceport would bring". Well, maybe the ones looking for the excitement.

Nor should they have to suck up exhaust and launch blasts. Neither should the animals in the park. I suppose these people think it's a good idea to put it into the park "because nobody lives there". But plenty of animals do - that's why it's a wildlife refuge.

Texas is huge. There's plenty of places in Texas, and elsewhere in the US, where the launch blasts won't have to blast any species that cares about it. We don't have to choose between launching and being humane.

Is there anything better for making a fairly simple HTML/appserver/DB Web app than Struts2?

No "AJAX", but you can add interactive embedded widgets to the page after you have the Struts2 app basically working. Or is there a way to develop full AJAX backed by Struts2 now? Or maybe that's all too complex. I think it's too complex, but I'm not sure what to use instead.

I don't think even humans were meaningfully intelligent until the time we started broadcasting radio. SETI isn't looking for life, it's looking for intelligence. It takes only one species, in fact only one organism, transmitting recognizable RF for SETI to find it and meet its worthwhile goal. The rest of the planet's life might be interesting in other ways, but as long as it doesn't block RF its lack of RF use of its own doesn't mean anything.

George Bush Sr, will you ever stop whining about getting beat? It was 20 years ago!

Just because you have demented fantasies about Hilllary Clinton that you insist on injecting into a conversation to which she's totally irrelevant doesn't mean anything about whether "we" are intelligent. Projecting meth heads like you don't subtract from the others of us who are intelligent. Like those of us now communicating with entangled quanta instead of with radio waves.

I will make Clinton relevant by pointing out that she's surely done more to help America's R&D into entanglement than you possibly could have.

They didn't speculate that aliens have planet-wide telepathy. They just said aliens might not have the need to constantly communicate at a distance. In fact that speculation excludes planet-wide anything for communication, because that would be "at a distance".

You're stupid, especially for calling them stupid. Turn off your computer and take a long walk.