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Oops, C8H8 not C8H18.

Octane is plastic? I'm pretty sure at STP it's a volatile liquid.

I don't know, except that the energy density of propanol is roughly similar to that of gasoline.

Because they do a better job, they are more functional. Plus there are only so many caves to go around. So, what was your point again?

Congratulations on completely missing the point, Coward.

"Nuclear weapon" does not automatically mean "missile warhead". The first nuclear bombs were huge and required B-29s to carry them. Taking that and miniaturizing (and ruggedizing) it to the point where it can launched off the tip of a missile is another matter.

Unless they publish orbital parameters, we don't even know that they've launched a cubesat. It's not like they've never lied before about their capabilities.

Who cares what they look like? As long as the HVAC works and they roll down the track, aren't they doing their job?

Maybe it already sank into the ground a little.

What he said was: "You cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others, you cannot make fun of the religion of others..." Well, like hell I can't. He can suggest that I should not, but he'd better not try to tell me that I cannot.

I do thank him/her. There is no such thing as a right not to be offended, and everyone needs to understand this. No such right can exist, precisely because it is in opposition to the notion of free speech.

I would bet on the cost being less than it is now. And, while I will have had access to all the latest stuff (and all the old stuff too) over those 30 years, the other guy will have spent those 30 years stuck with only the CDs he bought during that time, at a rate of only one new CD a month unless he wants to spend more money than me.

No, I will have every song there is, including all the newest ones. You'll only have your 4000, most of which you probably won't be listening to anymore.

Well, you should be mortgaging the house rather than renting it, but as for the rest... you should buy things that appreciate in value (like the house, modulo the last decade), rent things that depreciate.