Most parks ban any RC flight (where I’m from)... For the past 20 years people obeyed... I fish / kayak a lot at parks near my house... and only in the past year have I seen d-bags flying drones (i.e. RC copters). The masses tend to be ill informed... and if they see a cool toy on the internet, they buy it and use it…

I hope you are joking. A helicpotor or plane striking a drone can have deadly consequences for the people in the copter or plane. Get it? This isn’t a video game, a 2-foot drone is not highlighted with a targeting reticle seen 1/2 mile away... they are nearly impossible to see (especially when smoke is involved!).…

People seem to think changing an operating system is as simple as ‘click to update.’ Maybe for your laptop, but when very specialized hardware (read missles!) is designed to work with a specific OS, it’s ‘best not to fix if it ain’t broke.’

The, um... how shall I state this, intellectually challenged people like to gripe that NASA wastes money, but they seem OK with the DOD’s insane expendatures. BTW, 2014 NASA budget = $17.5B... DOD = $526.6B

The wires are 4um thick... 10um wide. Subtle difference, but that seemed thick for Au wires (I do micro- and nano-fabrication in a lab)... and I read the article. The Au foil was 4um... just FYI.

Convenient. They can lock up all the people they displace.

Blackberry honey... Mmmmm.

Perfectly summarized. And women, in general, tend to be more optimistic about people and the world (this also means they tend to be more naive, as you stated).