There was an episode of The Outer Limits called "Trial by Fire" that dealt with water faring aliens visiting earth.

In February 2000 at 20 years old I was diagnosed with a lung infection called Mycobacterium Kansasii. It is in the family of Tuberculosis and treated with a nearly identical pharmaceutical regimen.

I took:
Isoniazid:
myambutol
rifadin (turns your urine orange)
vitamin B 12 (for liver health)
Pyrazinamide for about a month until they ruled out Active TB.

I was on this regimen for 18 months, a while after I was declared cured myself, my Dad and my Brother walked to a local park to watch a total lunar eclipse. My brother and Dad ended up leaving early because they were getting bit so bad but I could walk into a cloud of mosquitos and they would disperse and I did not get bitten a single time.

Fast forward to now over a decade after being off of these meds and I might get 4 mosquito bites in an entire summer.

I havent ever found documented cases from other people where this happened, but the doctor who diagnosed and treated me said he had heard it in passing a few times.

I always wondered if there are alloys that could be made in microgravity that simply are not feasable to produce on earth due to the weight and density differences of the source metals.

Maybe that should be the first focus, what materials can be made in space that cannot be made on Earth, which asteroid supplies the most of said materials.

Plan A:
1) Pump all the fuel out of it.
2) If there is a hole in the down side of the hull patch it from the inside.
3) Patch any holes on the top side of the hull.
4) Get as many pumps as possible pulling water out of the thing. while you gradually inflate large air bags under it.
5) Ship pops back up, tug it anywhere you want.

Plan B:
Hundreds of millions of ping pong balls.

So punish anyone who is extremely tall like myself who can't reasonably fit in anything that could possibly be graded in the A band?

Doesn't need to be off, just make yourself a nice little Faraday cage for it.

Every on board sound I have ever tried while using headphones I could hear some sort of static noise with every action I made. Wiggle the mouse? acoustic noise happens right along with it, open or close a folder, a different tone of noise. My newest motherboard from about 2007 (Asus Striker extreme) had this problem.

Political party affiliations are too much like religion. Democrats think they are 100% right and the saviors of the nation and everything good that has ever happened to the country is because of Democrat lead Congress.br> On the flip side Republicans think they are 100% right and the saviors of the nation and everything good that has ever happened to the country is because of Republican lead congress.
So no matter who endes up with a majority or has the best ideas and makes progress it will eventually be destroyed and reversed by a group that thinks they are smarter and better than the other side. Not to mention I doubt even 50% of the population of any county or state could name both candidates in the election or name a single piece of legislation supported by or submitted by same. They just see red or blue and vote red or blue.
This is why I have gotten to the point where I don't care who the president is or who controls the house and senate. In the long run it doesn't matter, your vote is simply a choice between getting screwed now or screwed later.

I have a hard time believing there is anywhere remotely close to $500-$1300(new Aeron) in materials and amortized research and development in the cost of those chairs. They are priced prohibitively high.

There is no doubt in my mind if they reduced the prices the chairs 1/4 to 1/3 of the current prices, the company would still turn a descent profit on each unit, and sales would explode.

I was trying to think of something to post but you said it better than I ever could. Well done. It always seems people in small numbers can and do care for eachother, but when it gets to the scale of billions you don't. We hear about a Tsunami that killed 100,000+ people and find it tragic, but only a tiny fraction of a percent of us go help out or donate. (I didn't either). The Haiti earthquake relief seemed more of a fashionable thing to do than real honest concern for fellow man. I also wouldn't be surprised to learn if a handful of people pocket most of the donated money and only pennies on the dollar ever go to real actual rebuilding.

I find it absolutely absurd that we as a people let it get to the point that it takes 25% of your monthly income for 30 years (not including maintenance and utilities) to have a house.

What about 6 foot 8ers. I would need a shoe horn to get into a Miata and the jaws of life to get back out of it. I've ridden passenger in a Fit and my knees hit the dash. My brother has a Prius, anything more than about a 20 minute drive in that driver seat would leave me in pain. I had a Sentra as a loaner car once and could barely drive it. I can reasonably fit into a ford escape hybrid, but its mileage savings for the extra hybrid cost is far from worth it. Currently have an 08 Altima and am looking to ditch it for something bigger because if I sit with good posture for my back I can barely see because I'm looking through the tinted strip at the top of the windshield. Oddly enough a lot of the big 3 rows of seating vehicles have garbage for driver seat room too because the designers were so worried about the comfort of those 3 rows. I really have no idea what vehicle to get next. Any new large SUV have absolutely absurd costs. Even 7 year old giant SUVs with 75k+ miles are more costly than a new Honda Fit.