Not so fast my friend. Corporate interests will squash anything including the government that tries to provide anything different.

You get a bonus mod point for that one. Bravo

I want some more ribbon for my dot matrix printer

Wouldn't the most critical component for the psyche be that you are on Mars? No calling off the experiment, no where to run. In the experiment, the participants will know in the back of their minds that if something goes terribly wrong, they will get pulled out or rescued.

Unfortunately, politicians don't run for office based on their scientific or educational merit/knowledge.

P3 tacco again. P3s carry sonobuoys, which can listen underwater. You can drop enough to cover the "listening" area.

As for former P3 tacco, I give the following input: Only better and slower airborne asset is a helicopter. Given the remote location, the only way to get them to the search area would be by ship (destroyer (only a few helos, or aircraft carrier (many helos, but might not be available) So, what other choices do you have? Multi engine fixed wing search aircraft are the only way you could get coverage in this area. So the balance becomes how much area you can cover with radar and visual search patterns. You could search closer with surface ships, but you are talking alot of craft to cover a similar area, plus the lag time to gather them and get them to the location.

No mod points, but would bump it up for the astute observation of if evasive manuevers were an AC or not and the point on regulatory creep.

Remember Palm? How they watched as the tech passed them by and never quite caught up. In their heyday, they had the market cornered for PIMs and saw the smartphone just kill them off. Their attempts to become relevant again were feeble at best.

Turn on the backlight to the GPS or hopefully you picked up the lantern in the previous room.

Agreed. Stupid people are more likely to die. Enuf said.

Yes, you had to be there to appreciate it for what it was at the time.

Fallout Series (1,2,3, New Vegas, Oblivion, Morrowind) all good. Yes, can get dull at times traveling in their worlds, but interactive SP play is worth it. Not to mention the Mod community for Fallout and Oblivion that provide addons, upgrades and creativity. Also worth noting the mod community for the Half Life/Half Life 2 (origin of Counterstrike), plus all the addons (e.g. Gary's mod) and various scenarios based on the HL engine . If you have a good thing, gamers and independent developers will keep supporting the game and keep you coming back.

Got no mod points to give... posting to agree with your point of adding or trying to add MP onto SP games.

Mod +1, funny. Sry, got no real points to give.