We could instead rebuild every man-made object on the surface of the continent, establish a coherent transportation system to meet the needs of the new century, and build a big space station. That would employ all of those people.

a good deal of the medical technologies the world takes for granted were developed under military budgets...

Everything about this research is way beyond anything imagined by fiction writers. Scientists squeezed water to 25,000 atmospheres between two diamonds, and then fired a laser at it to heat it to thousands of degrees. Looking through the diamond ‘window’, they could tell whether the sample was dark or shiny,…

First, I must say that I am disappointed that the lasers are only for drawing stuff on the glasses, and not for burning flies and mosquitoes to oblivion with a glance.

I want her to get into his private office in Trump Tower, and pull out the relevant papers that show the extent of his vulnerability to blackmail by Russia, and the level of control that Putin has over him.

Coin purse.

Our local Walgreens pharmacy, open 24/7, can give the flu shot. Perhaps you could get one right now.

Let your immune system do what it evolved to do!

Even being vaccinated with a related strain will ‘prime’ the immune system enough to blunt the effects of an infection. Yes, they’d get the flu, but they would fight it off (imperfectly) from day one, instead of having it run rampant for four days while their B-cells proliferated enough to make a significant amount of…

Here’s a working link.

So, how long before we’re seeing a starship with the new Odderon Drive?

Yeah. It’s in “Space Cadet” by Heinlein.

With all the high technology, I hope they finally solved the urine splashback problem.

I’ve heard the term “Coffin nails” used.

A lot depends on the health of the . . . space cow(?) and whether he cleaned the udderoids thoroughly with a disinfectant-soaked vibrosponge.

Wait . . . what?

At first, I envisioned something like a rat king

The researchers accomplished their feat using the MinION nanopore sequencer, reading almost a hundred billion base pairs of data and analyzing huge chunks of DNA. The product is targeted towards scientists, mainly, but costs as little as a thousand dollars. Other DNA-sequencing machines are about the size of a…

Isn’t this just the opening gambit for a Total Government Takeover? Like “Jade Helm”?

This sounds like a lot of excitement over nothing.