Not really opposed but, unless there are resources there worth using to further space exploration, it just seems kind of dumb.

Yes, the moon has resources. In fact, part of the benefit of building a lunar colony is that it could become self-sustainable in terms of power generation, as well as becoming a production facility for the fuel to power a manned trip to mars.

You can only get public funding if you presume the conculsion that humans cause climate change in your grant proposal. You can only get private funding if you presume the opposite. I've been hearing this since the 90s - little "real science" has been done on either side.

If I had mod points, you'd be a smoking crater right now...

These concerns are pretty irrelevant for most web programming.

Please don't be so *frumple*.

Being ridden by a dinosaur, ridden by a mowhawked undead playing electric guitar.

Wrong.

Pandarans were in the running to be the new Alliance race in Burning Crusade, but they were supplanted by the Draeni.

The last expansion was rehashing an old raid boss.

Ehh? The end boss of this expansion is Deathwing, who hasn't made a significant appearance since Warcraft 2. Perhaps you're referring to Ragnaros? Honestly, how many current subscribers were around to fight the Vanilla Ragnaros when he was relevant?

Do the math: Every year, there is a certain probability that a world with nuclear weapons will use them. Given enough time, nuclear war becomes a statistical certainty.

You are aware of what causes war, right? If a nation runs out of resources, or worse, food and water, they will often send their armies in to take these resources from a neighbor. This isn't some theory from "gutless moderate lefties". This is a fact backed up by thousands of years of recorded history. Now, instead of nations of a few hundred-thousand armed with bronze weapons, we have nations of billions armed with nukes. Economic instability sets the tempo of the march to war. You want to roll the dice to see what happens when China no longer has oil to feed its growth?

I'm sure you know this :) but the song itself was inspired by the Doomsday Clock. We reached "Two minutes to midnight" when both the US and USSR had successfully detonated the H-Bomb.