Donald Trump should be the first passenger. He could then build the golf course of his dreams where nobody would object. Alan Shephard already started the ball rolling, so to speak. . No more plebs in the view from his multi-billion hotel. Win-win for Earth and Moon. His wig could be the Moon's first native wildlife.

If you mean 'Nothing useful', Yes :0)

....or it saw another probe sent from Venus...

I can tell right there, that you've never visited South America.

The Open University, 1971 http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained/history-the-ou

Me too. Weird, but the world might be safer.

The US Government comes to mind. For the price of a single B1 bomber, they could do that.

And when those rules are broken, as they were by the US military, there need to be whistle blowers, to bring the miscreants into line, and put them in trial for their illegalities.

Ah, the smell of fascist blood lust in the morning...Don't like what someone did? Just kill them. It makes you feel manly.

Invest most of the money in stocks and shares. Go safe, and invest in Investment Trusts. They'll pay 5% easily over the years, and accumulate in value. By the time a loaf of bread costs 250K, your fund will be worth trillions.

"whatever plug-and-play method the internet has already invented to circumvent these bans".

FIFY

My understanding is that the plants don't create their own insecticide. Rather they tolerate large doses of Roundup, which is a general-purpose insecticide that would normally kill the crop. Roundup has been available for decades. The danger here is that Roundup-ready seed contaminates other crops, and thus farmers are left with no choice but to use Monsanto's product to control weeds. A couple of problems arise; one: that the crop becomes a mono-culture, and two: because the crop is resistant to Roundup, farmers use too much of it to kill the weeds. That leads the to the classic evolutionary race of the weeds to themselves become 'Roundup-ready', and eventually be resistant to weed-killer. Monsanto don't even allow farmers to keep seed and resow next year; they insist that farmers buy fresh. They are definitely the baddies here, and need taking down.

About the same time - 1966. Computer club in school. We learned Algol, which was transferred to paper tape, and input to the local university's computer (English Electric something or other). Got the compiled results 2 weeks later. Progress was s...l...o...w...

I'm old enough to remember flying in the days before the jets took over entirely. It was a great adventure,, but it wasn't fun. Aeroplanes still have sick bags, but you don' see them used these days. Back in the day, you could more or less guarantee that all the kids on the plane would use theirs, and a fair few adults, too. I can still remember filling up a few of them myself. Elizabeth Taylor wouldn''t have been quite so glamorous if she'd been photographed barfing into hers...

That's probably why they crash. I suggest that they hold the steering wheel in future.