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Not a member of any religion, but I remember this from a few years back: "Christians have always understood that the entire cosmos is a creation of God, that any life anywhere is a divine creation," said Dominican Fr. Augustine Di Noia, undersecretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine...

The biggest issue I have with trains is that for family or group travel, it is prohibitively expensive. It also puts you at the mercy of someone else's timetable. A train ride from near my house into New York City costs $24 round trip per person into Penn Station in mid-town. It takes roughly...

I wouldn't call it a tutorial as much as a 'this is how I did it.' video. I had to stop watching during video 4 when he was trying to dock the CM to the LM. Let's just burn that main engine to dock! I think the creator of the videos does have the ability to do a really nice set of true...

My physics professor was a huuuuuge Trek fan, and we derailed a lot of classes talking about 'Star Trek' physics. His take on it was that while most of the tech wasn't feasible today or in the near future, once you have resolved the issue of infinite energy (the ST Dilithium chamber / warp...

Oh, you were finished! Well allow me to retort. Once you get the basic ideas of what you want to do and where you'd like to do it sorted, make sure to check out the state department (or equivalent) websites for those countries to see what their emigration /education / work permit / visa...

Hmm... If I had the swag to buy 5 yachts, and wanted to buy 5 yachts, I'd love for someone like the OP to come up to my face to tell me I'm an evil person that deserves to die. I'd probably hire her to be a galley wench or barnacle scrubber. Of course, accidents do happen out at sea all the...

If there was a foot long crater, what are the chances the kid was hit by shrapnel from the ground, and not the meteorite? At the speed that rock was travelling, it's nanoseconds from the hand to the ground, much to close to tell which got hit first. The ejecta from the crater would be...

Not sure if there is an equivalent for outside North America, but if you are in NA, check this site out: http://cleardarksky.com/

For EVAs on the moon, in addition to the rock gathering missions, I'd love to see the other experiments added to the mission list. They'd need to be deployed in historical order at the historical location.

The government programs that are popular with the taxpayers are the ones that get the funding. I view this as a win for NASA. They got some publicity for free, had a good laugh about it, and came up with a solid name for the module. The space program needs evangelists to raise popularity...

Penguin tastes a lot like salty chicken. The abay ones haven't spent enough time in the ocean yet to absorb the salty flavor, though, and taste much more like regular chicken. They are best served on a bed of brown rice with a teriyaki glaze. Either red or white wines will be a delicious...

You mean, the energy output of the Sun is the determining factor of how much energy the Earth receives, and therefore warms or cools? Balderdash! Cavemen driving their SUVs ended the Ice Age about 12,000 years ago. There were white and European and wrecked the environment! The preceedeing...

We can stop global warming pretty easily. Turn the Sun off.

Any civilization that has mastered FTL travel will have greatly reduced its shipping costs. They have probably also developed some sort of matter/energy/matter converter simple as well. Pressurizing that thing would still be a little bit of work. Easiest way would probably be to ship in huge...

Why should the school board be asking Jobs for replacements? Why not have the little miscreant do it as part of his punishment? Oh, that's right, we aren't allowed to punish the little snowflakes anymore.

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You left out that the Earth's rotation is slowing. We need to get the media to promote that with their world-class scaremongering. What have you done today to stop the Earth's rotation from slowing? :P

I live in New Jersey, about a 45 minute car ride from Manhattan (assuming no traffic). I live less than a mile from a major train hub that goes either right into mid-town, or to the Hoboken terminal which allows for easier trips into lower Manhattan. Before I 'rescued' her, my wife lived in...

I just started a new job last week, after 7 months of unempl... er.. professional gaming :) I actually had my first interview with this company a month after my old one moved away. My old company recommended me to the new company. I thought I had done really well on the interview, and after I...

Given enough time and money, nothing is impossible. Of course what is being proposed here would require much more than what all of us here could contribute.