If we had Star Trek's cheap power and movement tools, we'd have to establish traffic control on the "Dawn Patrol" powered parking orbits, where craft would be cruising to watch the sunrise and sunset. Falling out of orbit due to propulsion failure would also be a routine occurrence. It's an obvious side effect.

I'll watch on Mars while you experiment on your own planet, thank you very much.

5) They're coming over here to shut us up for good. For the good of the Galactic Corporation, as such stay-at-home stick-in-the-muds just aren't good for business, and there's no use wasting all this nickel-iron on a useless planetary mantle.

Don't know much about the Earth's rotation, do you? How about directional broadcast TV antennas?

Well, a single science fiction author, Heinlein, did have a Hiatus in interplanetary travel. So we can debate whether it was unexpected. Although even Heinlein thought we'd quickly have large colonies on the Moon.

What actually was unexpected was that ridiculously large rocket, the Saturn V. We shouldn't have been able to use a giant bottle rocket to toss a few men on the Moon. We should have built space stations which could build and refuel spacecraft. Infrastructure should have made the Moon much cheaper to reach.

It is awkward for lab workers to have their mice hijacked, and even more so to lose control of their monkeys.
Always mount a spare monkey.

Maybe you can't if you don't renew your OnStar service. Did you read your contract?

There's not much cost involved in using a subdomain for advertising, as soon as an advertising company supplies a plugin for your CMS which does all the work for you (other than editing your DNS entries once). Looking at WordPress plugins, I see there is at least one which uses subdomains, so at least for the popular WordPress platform it is possible to write a plugin which recognizes subdomains.

But if the "blinds" are invisible to the outside world, they'll see you naked behind them and have a better idea of whether you're a pervert.

If we wouldn't recognize a different kind of life on Mars, would we also not recognize it on Earth? We should expect that some kinds of life on Mars have also arrived on Earth several times, and that Earth life has also reached Mars several times. It's unlikely, but there have been quite a few rocks thrown into space from both planets. So maybe the same speculated odd life is already here, but we don't know how to recognize it no matter where it is.

This could lead to quantum circuits

Great! My lights have been needing a bottle of blinker fluid for the longest time!

Maybe their test is so boring that people don't want to try as hard when they're re-tested. On the other hand, a test which is so boring that you continue to be bored by it over a ten year period might have some useful boredom technology in it.

Doesn't seem like a change, unless they presently don't shutdown an unsafe plant before 40 years.

I have the most logically organized and beautifully poetic reply to this. It would bring tears of joy to your grandchildren's eyes, but it will not fit in this space. I'll just tweet about it.

I have the most logically organized and beautifully poetic reply to this. It would bring tears of joy to your grandchildren's eyes, but it will not fit in this space. I'll just tweet about it.