I have enormous doubts about any of these grandiose-sounding private enterprise space ventures (the various Mars operations including SpaceX, the asteroid mining company, this, etc.) ever actualizing.

It's true!

Wow, less of Providence is under +25' of elevation than I thought. Hooray glacial scouring!

Yes, yes, we are always worse than everyone else, even when we are better than them. Gotcha.

Meh.

Yep, sure have.

Have you been to a third-world country??

Slightly longer. Just not worth it to me.

We live long enough man.

The high-res version of the map does not include they key, so it's kind of useless...

"Looking for America? Don't bother. Depending on the data source, the U.S. usually comes in somewhere between 29th and 50th:"

It will have a warming effect, but it is likely to be enormously smaller per kwh than fossil fuels, anyway.

I'm pretty much with you 100% Charlie Jane.

They aren't any different from other professional athletes, AFAICT.

Pretty sure no 1st world municipality will give it's stamp of approval to that legal-liability factory, but it's a funny idea.

... Hans Moleman?

Seems like the seminars would be more fun if it was "Humanity Squared - an organization that advocates the unethical use of technology to expand human capacities:.

I wish Dr. Lizardo had chimed in here. He would know the real scoop.

I've heard of deconstructionists, but what's a contructionist?

They do what they do only for themselves, not for anyone else.