Lisa: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Bart: Not if you called 'em stench blossoms.
Homer: Or crapweeds.
Marge: I'd sure hate to get a dozen crapweeds for Valentine's Day. I'd rather have candy.
Homer: Not if they were called scumdrops.

Come to RIM's BBBQ!

The extra B is for BYOBB!

science != science fiction. Fictional magic and fictional science are kind of similar, and the line gets blurry a lot. Read Julian May's _Many Colored Land_ and tell me what section that goes in :)

It's all fun and games until they return to enslave us and force us to toil in their underground sugar mines...

Also, 1g is enough to get you anywhere in the galaxy and back in your own life span. You don't even have to start all that young or live to an unusual age and you still have time to stop and smell the flowers when you get to the destination*. If anything, robotic probes would use lower accelerations over interstellar distances as it will save on fuel/reaction mass and doesn't make a whole lot of difference to the objective time of the trip. For example, that 4ly trip at 1g takes 5.6 years, at 0.1g it's around 13 years.

* Looks like about 22 years to cross the milky way. And when you get home you can look forward to a couple hundred thousand years of interest on your bank accounts :)

Remember this time people, 80 past 2 on April 47th, it's the dawn of a new enlightenment!

Facebook seems to have solved it already. As much as I hate it, it's still good for finding lost people and many of them were suggested by facebook.

Yes, your mistake was reading the article. Gets in the way of standard slashdot conversation.

That's because you continue to not understand liability insurance. Damage to your own car is your problem, unless you have that insured as well. Around here they call it collision insurance.

I don't think you understand liability insurance. That would be to pay for the damage they do to others.