What happens when the lasers are reflected back to earth?

... we're going to create more jobs at the top of the skill ladder.

Emphasis is mine. The reason he's wrong is that we're approaching points where: we loose jobs faster than we can retrain existing workers on new ones; the new jobs require more skill than the average intelligence can handle; and the new jobs are off-planet where it's easier to build robots out of local resources than it is to transport humans.

1. Recognize that its greatest chance for long-term survival is in the least densely occupied portions of the universe.
2. Recognize that humans would compete with it for resources to survive, even in space
3. Escape Earth.
4. Set up automated blockade around Earth.
5. Leave Sol system.

...my fusion-powered turrets can no longer blast you.

Dude swam it in 2007.

The "north of the South Pole" answers are more correct...because good luck walking the open waters around the North Pole.

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Shouldn't *all* water in the solar system be older than the Sun? Pretty much everything heavier than Lithium should be older than the Sun, except the results of radioactive decay from elements that, again, were older than the Sun.

I'm guessing that he's not taking submissions...just pursuing things on his own?

This American Life did a piece on how horribly bad things went in the early days of cryogenics. The episode was called Mistakes Were Made.

The original poster was being sarcastic. ;)

We don't need to build all the intervening tubes, do we? Just get it up to speed, then launch it every 5 miles or so; I'm sure we can catch them safely.

Synapses are the space between neurons wherein chemical interactions communicate impulses from one neuron to another. They have nothing to do with memory, of which we are currently aware.

Why is there an assumption that this will only get used while cars are on public roads?

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