Once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere. The moon, Venus and asteroids are all easier targets than Mars. Some of the moons of Jupiter may well be easier targets too. Mars is hard because it's big, with a thin atmosphere, so you need heavy equipment to land and take off. For Venus you just stay in orbit. For smaller moons with no atmospheres you need a lot less mass in fuel and heat shielding to land and take off again. You can use that space for more life support and radiation shielding.

Exactly. Notice how the general public doesn't use terminals anymore?

Drinking is absolutely a skill. The first time I ran a 400 m race I barely finished because I started as if I was 100 m. Drinking requires the same pacing because it's easy to drink too much too fast, before you feel it.

That's not quite true. Canada has a lower overall population density than the US, but the urban density is about 40% higher than the US (Europe is 270% higher than the US).

The stupid in the summary burns. The stupid in the article is a glaring bright bonfire. Especially the part where they say "cutting through the technical jargon, here's all you need to know...."

That's a pretty intense rate of deflation. At that rate we'll all be walking around with antimatter keychains next year.

If only the solar sail spacecraft had some means of propulsion that could help it slow down at it's destination.

The technology to send a probe to Proxima Centauri within a couple of decades more or less exists now. It only requires the will to do it.

I don't think that's true. There are people who really do like ads. I used to have roommates who eagerly awaited the daily delivery of fliers, then spent the evening reading them all.

I don't understand it, but these people do exist. However, they're not the ones running ad blockers. Those are the people who hate ads with a passion. If I were an advertiser I would thank ad block for offering a free way for me to avoid pissing them off.

If you're "the world over" and you're not the USA (i.e. Canada), the USA snooping on your data is "another government."

That's one particular gene that is associated with Alzheimer's. There is no "Alzheimer's" gene, despite what the summary says. Even if there were, it doesn't mean you can't do anything to delay it. You could make an argument that the disease called death starts having an effect at the age of zero, but you should still buckle up and not smoke.

So is New York City. But step over whatever kind of border, geographical, political or demographic, and there's lots of open space. There's even lots of land that isn't used for anything.

Laser tag + augmented reality + first person shooter. You think old farts get annoyed by Pokemon, just wait.

Slashdot. It used to be the home of tech geeks. Now it's at least half luddites. Sad.

Yahoo's "hope" seems pretty optimistic all right. I'd think they'd be more interested in the finding the vulnerability bit anyway. Run it on your code before you make it live and fix the bugs yourself if you have to.

They probably decided they needed to explain why a major tech company was sponsoring develop of automated cracking tools though.