For reference the Saturn 5 burned something like 20 tons of fuel PER SECOND.

I'm not sure what you're financial range is but a Tesla Model S base is about 50k and has a range of around 120 miles. It's a luxury sedan too. You won't be able to get one for a year or two though.

I'm actually taking AP calc right now as a HS senior. I think people that tend to be "good" at math are able to picture problems accurately in our heads, so maybe they have difficulty with the word problems because they just see them as words on a page rather than an actual scenario. Once I can picture a problem I can figure out what's being asked and the best way to attack that problem. Also, thank you for being such a wonderful person as to adopt 5 girls!

For NY drivers (might be the whole country, not sure) with a CDL (tha'ts the truck drivers license, sort of) the limit is cut in half so it's .04 even if that person is driving a regular car.

One of the few big name games that supports 4 person local multiplayer (2 for local campaign). Bungie has been very amendment about keeping that functionality so its a great party game.

Both of the ideas you threw out are like orders of magnitude slower that conventional rockets. They are just more efficient. The most efficient trajectories to the moon from earth take about a month, they use them with ion drives because it's cheaper and waiting a month is worth a few billion dollars.

Electric motors are most efficient at around 20mph. City driving in an electric kills gas because it is their optimal speed and they don't spend fuel idling (other than things like ac and the screen).

The Xbox is in a great position to become the entertainment hub of the living room. Hook it up to the internet and it could replace your television provider. Network it to the windows computer and you can look at the photo album on the tv. The Xbox was a truly long term investment for MS. Oh and it plays games at every price point for every person in the house.

This is why I have so much respect for theoretical physicists.

After the slave trade was banned in the US plantation owners couldn't replenish slaves as readily so they had to view them as an investment, so they didn't want to work them to death. Slave treatment within the states also varied, South Carolina was particularly bad because of the ration of slaves to owners being so high because rice is a labor intensive crop.

I wish I had mod points, this was basically the exact thought I had when I read GP's comment.

I found it very difficult to compare the alienware I bought to a Macbook. It offers very little information about the exact chip, it tells you the number of cores and frequency but it lacks an actual model number to do a good comparison. I'm not saying they aren't of high quality or worth the money I'm just saying they make it hard to compare them to their competition.

Well having computers to help design stuff helps. The F-117 was limited by the number of faces the computer at the time could simulate. If CAD had been around during the design of the Shuttle they could have put diagnostics into the engines and wouldn't have had to rebuild them every three flights. The shuttle computer was so bad by today's standards that they couldn't fit all of the software on a single drive. The had separate modules from takeoff, orbit, and landing so that when they got into orbit and when they were ready to descend the astronauts had to hit a button that would shut the computer off, change the drive it was reading, and reboot.

Oh and we still have no idea how to simulate rocket plumes effectively.

Did we have money waste on the moon the first time? It cost about half a trillion dollars (in today's money) and I want to say the estimated return was 13:1, but that's from memory and could be very wrong. Regardless the space race spurred the semiconductor industry and had many other spinoffs, today the Merlin engine that SpaceX makes is based on the J-2 used in the Saturn rockets.

We don't know what we'll get, we don't know what we'll learn

Why not stop fighting all our wars and do both?