Nicely said, thanks.

Here's a project. Model how any small part of the Interplanetary Transport Network works. Then please send it to me. Here is a paper to help you get started: http://www2.esm.vt.edu/~sdross... Have fun coding!

+1 for "scraping at dirt with a bricklayer's trowel"

Funniest post all day.

Funniest thing I have read all day.

"Active suspension via recirculating kinetic transfer" Provide a link please? Not even sure what this phrase means.

I too remember the exact day. It was one of those defining moments.

This.

Well, please post a link to your videos.

The symbolism of Southern honor and courage known as the Confederate flag was stolen years ago by a domestic terrorist organization known as the KKK. Because the South did not prevent the theft, they have now lost their flag. It's your own fault this happened.

Throwing away my mod points to say what a useful and interesting post this is.

The customers of your webapp may tolerate continuous deployments and the inevitable rollbacks, but not all of us are so lucky. After their production network crashes and burns because of our product, we quickly learned that paying customers will take the latest release and park it in their lab for 6 months or a year before risking it on their live network. Agile is great for keeping devs accountable and on track, but real software cannot be continuously released.

Plants are engines powered by the Sun, made almost entirely out of water and air.

Just had to throw that in, otherwise I would have modded up your answer.

Thanks, looks like a good book, will check it out.

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit at the wharf all day drinking beer and fishing.