Somewhat ironically, in the literal sense, the answer is to open doors to China - exactly what is going on.

Sleep is pretty hard to resist. If you don't do it, you die.

Not really the same as cigarettes?

..nuclear "waste" from one reaction often just requires reproccessing to be fuel for another process. This point is often lost along the way.

Humans will not explore the universe. Adapted or otherwise. We're adapted differently and poorly, to those objectives.

A species or technology created by humans almost certainly will - and that is my point.

TFA doesn't mention any of this, FWIW.
 

Our bodies are not adapted, evolved, or designed for space.

We are vastly better off concentrating resources into robotics, AI, and technologies that will allow for the imaging and transfer of brain state. Those next creations - or evolution of intelligence - will be free to explore the universe.

Alternatively, mastering genetic engineering may allow us to create organic lifeforms that ARE adapted to those environments, and have or exceed our own intelligence. That is also possible within a short timeframe.

As the Dr. already indicated, it's not likely we are going to make it the next few hundred years as-is. That'll be ok, we'll all be at the feet of (insert deity here) in eternal paradise, right? *laughs*

Detecting the finish line is one problem.

Detecting multiple cars crossing the finish line within a few ms is another problem.

Trusting the client is another issue.

Price is another..

I used Neutrino in University, many years ago. QNX is a Canadian company and supports educational endeavors well.

It's a nice RTOS and has a lot of great features. I'm not superstitious, but I am convinced there is something about QNX that is cursed. It hasn't hit any traction; Linux is "good enough" for consumer applications; and there's enough specialty applications to keep it alive, but not prosper.

I am curious to see if this plays out again with RIM.

You can't legislate physics, and the mechanics of a UAV are widely known and trivial to learn for anyone suitably motivated.

If people are going to get you, in a free society, they are going to get you. The idea is to make is so people don't _want_ to do nasty things, because the alternative is to live in a police state, and have neither freedom or safety.

Are we going to start security checks on who can enter an electrical or mechanical engineering program, because they might learn the basics of dynamics and automatic control systems?

On second thought.. don't propose that, either.

Show up in person and write your exam unassisted.

Problem solved..

The truth is that the first 2-3 years of undergrad are generic, profs generally hate teaching them, and it's about a cash grab before the students go on to something else. Online school can eliminate that for those students most likely to continue on - in my opinion, for what that's worth.

It is not until your final years in engineering, anyway, that I felt there was real engagement from faculty. There are exceptions to this - some brilliant ones, even in my experience - but in general, universities don't want to start to compete on that lowest denominator yet.

Whoever goes first, though, will make some money.