If the guy's abroad on a personal trip, why's he carrying his JPL issued phone with him? That seems like a security no-no.

I've never worked at NASA but I have been issued equipment by government contractors and taking it out of the country while on personal trips was expressly forbidden. I never traveled abroad on company business but my understanding was that for at least some destinations the security department would require you to take a different laptop that only had the data you needed for the trip on it instead of your usual one. I'm not sure if that was for every destination or just for the more hostile ones.

Arguing that the guy who's written something like 800 books could have written another hundred or two if only he didn't have work a day job in his early years really doesn't seem like the most compelling argument you could make.

just saying.

Keep in mind that Tolkien was Catholic and that it influenced his writing heavily. I suspect that the Church's teachings on the death penalty were at least partially what influenced this sentiment.

The solar panels that power the ISS are in the American section. So sure, they could keep us off the ISS but we could make it awfully uncomfortable for them to stay.

Oh sure, in fact many Penthouse Letters are actually just verbatim excerpts of biblical verse.