A showdown between free speech and Muslim sensitivities about their prophet is well under way. One side is going to have to give eventually.

Historically, in the Western world, something like this - the posting of the 95 thesis - led to hundreds of years of war and revolution before people decided that imposing their religious dogma on others is a futile quest.

They just need to not transport prisoners and install a warden, then bleed Luna dry (literally) by sending its water to Earth inside wheat.

My question is what happens with time in an FTL regime? Speeds up? Slows down? Goes backwards?

To quote Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe after the German demand to surrender of Bastogne,: "NUTS!".

Wow, someone here who actually read the article and is able to do a bit of arithmetic. Bravo!

YouTube is not the sole source of videos on the Internet. There are multiple other sources. And, if those sources start censoring videos, you can set up your own host and display the video there, you can torrent it, you can send it via e-mail, you can do a lot of other things.

Governments are monopolies, and their monopoly is coercive power. You do any of the above to circumvent their censorship and they can and will hunt you down, break into your apartment and haul your ass off to jail. Whether you get beat up in the process, is their option.

As a true conspiracy nut, I would not put it past 1. the FBI to have gotten its data from Blue Toad or 2. Blue Toad covering up for the FBI.

As long as there is not a monopoly, why can't the marketplace take care of issue? Simply take your business to an ISP that practices net neutrality.

This was observed in primates earlier. Bonobos are the most promiscuous of primates and also have to devote the most resources to their immune systems.

Another band-aid fix that will fail to work and comes at the cost of due process and Internet freedom.

Why make another planet, when you can make a ringworld or dyson sphere? There are plenty of rogue planets around, maybe some are close enough to Barnard's to be moved, if there isn't enough mass in orbit. Of course, this is a multi-generational project and if undertaken will probably be done by von neumann machines. But it is not theoretically impossible.

Something to think about for when the sun expands to engulf the Earth's orbit.

The August 28, 2011 Science Daily had an article about females being able to reject sperm from undesireable cocks: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110828210552.htm

_Courtship Rite_ is amazingly good. "Shipwright" and "To Bring in the Steel" are also top-tier. He just didn't write enough.

And if this audience here is actually Libertarian, he would have been mentioned well before now.

I absolutely love his Paratime stories. He is severely underappreciated and his tragic death at the height of his ability underscores it.

Nothing magic about this. These asteroids probably hit during the late, heavy bombardment. According to the Nice model, this is a result of Jupiter and Saturn being in an orbital resonance (Jupiter orbiting once for every two times Saturn orbited). A number of scientists (notable among them, WF Bottke), speculate that the Hungaria family of asteroids was nearly completely depopulated that this time as most were knocked into the inner solar system.

A recent discovery of an 100 km diameter, 2 bya asteroid crater in Greenland is the first direct evidence of the bombardment hitting Earth. Weathering and continental drift have made getting such direct evidence difficult.

Examination of isotope ratios in comparison to what is known for for various types of asteroid are somewhat inconclusive for a particular family being the exclusive donator to Earth's oceans. But, I stand by the estimation that the Hungaria family provided the major portion.