". If a species goes extinct because of us then it wasnt fit to live"

By who?

Maybe it was fit to cure cancer, and we weren't fit to know that because we're glib dumbasses and wasted them all before we bothered finding out.

It's like /. was bought by a bunch of old guys.

Nor did his scientific speculations revolve around applying the scientific method,

You don't actually know anything about Clarke's work, do you?

http://scifi.stackexchange.com...

Clarke also invented the communications satellite. Or, the idea of it.

We should start taking our contaminated water and dumping it in the swimming pools of the 1%.

I want to see them explain why this is bad for them.

Gawd. No, they fucking do not.

One day you guys will get over the Cult of Snowden and realize what truly childish and useless people you've chosen to truckle with.

I read Cuckoo's egg when I was in my early 20's.

It was published, back in my early 20's. Surprised to see anyone else even knows about it.

You ignorantly shoot your mouth off, get virtually every important detail wrong, get called on it, and cry fuck off?

What a jackass. Did you forget to go over and swim in the fucking sewer on 4chan? Sounds like that's where you belong.

I pretty much figured he was ranting and had no exact clue what he was talking about.

I mean, he's not even entirely sure which game he got banned from, and hasn't played it in three years. Are you even sure you're banned? Maybe you just forgot how to play.

Then don't play the fucking game.

Have you been banned, or are you just being a concern-troll asshole, and whining about something you don't actually understand.

such as that obamacare website that cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions - a website assigned to a company without any open bidding

I thought smart people came to Slashdot. I didn't realize Fixed News Fuckwits were paid to troll here too.

You should have sharted. It would have been more useful than your ODS garbage.

LOL. Who remembers the dreaded "Michelangelo" virus?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus)

Of course, it turned out to be John McAfee's marketing program for his virus scanner, and nothing to get excited about.

Just chiming in: I believe this is probably total horseshit, and more pathetic propaganda from the NSA, who have clearly gotten too big for their damn britches.

How that is calculated is beyond me

A certain amount of mass equals a certain amount of pressure, which is what's required to start hydrogen fusing.