Sorry, turning a decent steak into a burger makes no sense without additives. The way to treat a steak is to pocket it and fill it with blue stilton, not slobber it with mayo and red sauce.

So nothing in there but beef? How does it all stick together?

If it were 100% beef it would be a steak. Still I'd prefer the meat elements of my burger to not be anything except what they claim to be.

Not to question science (no, wait, I think that's the point of science), does that mean all blue eyed people are descended from one single person at most ten thousand years ago? Or that multiple people acquired this unusual mutation simultaneously and outbred everyone else in the region, which seems even less likely?

I have a doubt.

And snarky comments like this are the exact opposite of science, well done.

If we can breed with it, it's human.

Why do you think neanderthals had dark hair and brown eyes? Doesn't it seem a little odd that the only place you can find blonde hair, red hair, blue or green eyes and white skin also happens to be the same location that the neanderthals were mostly last seen in?

Judging by how quickly they went extinct, they are probably very tasty... what, just saying...

No idea why this isn't at +5...

Er, what you said and what I said have nothing to do with one another.

Unless the user is in Europe. I don't see why many users would be loath to give up their phone numbers anyway, they've already given up photographs, locations, areas of residence, email addresses, basically everything else.

Bingo. Its a source of continuous amazement to me how many slashdotters think that oil makes their computers go.

He's talking about a basic wage, not communism. The instincts you describe are very useful in such a system, preventing a society of sloth from developing. Really, its like much of Europe at the minute, except more explicit.

Why wouldn't we have enormously extended lifespans by then? Like thousands of years, there's no physical reason why not...

Just how fucking enormous are we talking about here?

Yes, build it in space and work from there. I think we're going to have to re-evaluate the idea of spaceships taking off from earth in the same way that cargo ships can't go across land.