You shot your own post in the foot. It's exactly the same except for the parts where it's better? I see.

TFA doesn't exactly go into details, but declining cellular repair is mentioned as a part of the process. If cellular/mitochondrial repair were maintained it would address a lot of your issues with longevity. That being said, if our generation (currently in our 30s) were to instantly start living to 150, I think there would not only be huge financial problems but also some pretty complicated psychological onesies well. I don't expect that this is what they mean, but an increase in longevity like that, even over a few generations, is full of disaster if something isn't done about coinciding birth rates.

I like this idea. I think it's spot on. I'm the first one to complain about a lack of new ideas and how (especially in movies lately!) it's all been done, but lately I've realized that the process of churning out new and innovative ideas takes time and patience, which is not part of our current model. The ideas that fill the gaps are probably going to be constant rehashes of existing ideas because they are already available and can be quickly converted. The rehashes themselves are also not without value, even though we may be sick of them already. I just hope the "filler" ideas don't become too influential; I hope that the new ideas don't quash or artificially direct the new, innovative stuff out of its natural habitat and thereby limit its relevance and/or survival.

I pay just as much for this game as everyone else. I should have the opportunity to see and experience all of it without having to sacrifice my job and life to make sure I'm part of the "elite" guilds that can get that first kill.

Is this really what we think? It doesn't really make sense to me if that's true. As an avid, but non-elite, gamer I can feel the sentiment, but I can't say I believe in it. Surely there is a justified difference in reward for people who pay the same as you AND sacrifice their job and life. Our current entitlement demands are pretty high, I think. I just don't see how anything is going to change for the better as long as we are expecting the hardcore gamer and the casual gamer to receive the same benefits for different levels of input.

Plot hooks notwithstanding, I'm pretty sure the shortest route from point A to point B is also the shortest route from point B to point A, and that if points A and B are sufficiently interesting, there should be a relatively decent amount of traffic between the two. I don't remember the episode that included your description of vessel interaction, but I'm not saying it didn't happen. Most of the interaction that I remember started via long rang scanners followed by a side trip to check things out. Did I miss something?

Reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated.

Ok.. so am I bigger geek for knowing the reference... or for the words of Mandos being my first though at a glance before I read your post?

Clearly you don't PvP...

"Wave does have support for bots and interactive widgets, so it won't be long before RPG-specific examples of both start cropping up."

We're headed back to MUD's?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I laughed, I cried.. it was better than Cats. Thanks.

So I guess I am the only one who saw the headline and was excited that Starfleet was in fact considering Open Source...?

I was kinda thinking the same thing, though not to conspiracy theory proportions, of course. There are things that are "road-like" all over the map though, so maybe those are related errors?