They see the opposition that President Trump is receiving, and they see the source of this opposition. And they start to think that President Trump is right, and that he's needed more now than ever before. His support continues to grow and grow, all thanks to those who are trying to oppose him!

By this logic, if I modded you down, I'd mod you up.

The TPP's biggest problem is that it's too big. The treaty covers too much ground any good part is drowned out by the bad, like fine wine mixed with moonshine. Maybe that's the way the authors intended it, a bait-and-switch, where the putative benefits are trumpeted while the potential harm is played down.

The success rate of Russian missions to Mars is quite low. In fact, if we don't include the launches made by the former USSR, which also had a low success rate, the success rate would be zero: two mission failures out of two launches. In contrast, India, a relative newcomer to deep space, managed to succeed with its one and only mission to Mars.

Be careful what you wish for. The same tools used in a "war" against corruption could in the future be used against less famous and less wealthy people whose main crime would be merely their failure to follow the rules of an overly complex legal system. I'm all for hounding mass murderers and dictators down to their retirement homes. But if it's a matter of finding out simply whether the money was properly recorded in some ledger, which is the only proof you're likely to get in a corruption case short of a smoking gun video, then I think it's better to focus on just a few big cases, the ones where the prosecution is most likely to win a conviction, and then fix the laws that allowed such corruption to flourish.

The only reason we should be spending deep space probes in the first place is if we're planning to send humans to deep space. Otherwise, we should be happy staring at our telescopes or taking joy rides to the Karman line. The only exception to this is finding out if there's some nearby heavenly monster out to do us harm, an asteroid headed our way or an impending gamma ray burster, which can probably be detected using ground-based or earth-orbital sensors.

If we're not going to do a crewed, human mission to Mars, then lets stop doing all this supposedly scientific deep space research. Confine our research to low earth orbit or solar observation, since those are the things that matter the most to us down here, aside from the usual mapping and weather forecasting.

Every invention is inevitable given enough time. That or something else gets invented that performs the same function. As an example, take the invention of printing. The Chinese and Koreans were said to have invented some form of printing hundreds of years before Gutenberg.

But this is the insanity I don't understand. Why do the Sokors insist on locating their largest city within artillery range of a country it's technically still at war? The government could have easily built, especially during SK's period of rapid growth, a new capital on its southern edge, closer to Japan. If not that, it would have been a rather simple matter, converting some of the other cities into a government center.

Given its central location in the Korean peninsula, Seoul would make an excellent capital for a united Korea, but as it stands, it's a huge security risk and magnet for attack with a mere minutes' advance warning should Kim decide to launch blitzkreig.

Robots are people too, you know.

The first part of your rant might all be true. I'm too lazy to review my US history, so let's assume that it is. But you should be aware that the Democratic party of Lincoln's time is a different donkey from the Democratic party of today. Parties aren't static entities, especially those with a longer apparent history than the parties of Lenin and Mao. They're made of people, and their ideological orientation could flip-flop like the poles or a bisexual in search of love.

Actually there are many Chinese ARM-based development boards and "mini PCs" with much, much better specs. The problem is that they tend to use SoCs designed by some mainland Chinese semiconductor company which refuse, or at least ignore requests, to release even the GPL'ed kernel sources for the chip. Compared to these companies, Broadcom is almost saintly.

Feeding the troll: theoretically this will only work for Windows games that have been ported to the ARM architecture. So in theory you could play some WinPhone apps.

Nature could in theory produce a race of impotent but immortal creatures. If true immortality is possible then that would mean the end of evolution for that species.

It's less of a puzzle when we consider evolution hasn't produced an "unkillable" organism. Since all organisms are eventually killed through internal or external causes, increasing the breeding rate is a greater guarantee that a species or its genes will survive. Let's take a hypothetical extreme case, a race of non-infectious vampires that that neither ages nor breeds or otherwise increase their numbers. Eventually the mutants will thin out to extinction unless they're truly immortal, surviving not just viruses or cancer, but predators, silver bullets, or giant boulders from outer space. So an organism that breeds and dies like bacteria becomes evolutionary more successful than a longer lived but slower breeding blue whale.

And a good can opener, unless you plan to waste your ammo on your corned beef.