Somebody get Io some Clearasil, STAT!

It's all well and good until someone spills their drink...

Is it angry? It looks more sad to me.

I was basing that off of the "...Mr Labros, a mechanical engineer living in Washington DC..." in the source article.

As an American, I feel that the ignorant, self-important, entitled attitude that this sequence of actions illustrate is a big part of the reason this country is going to shit.

This is the thing I don't understand about some of these missions. You know you need x of something for the thing to operate properly, and you're sending it so far out that you won't be able to send a mission up to repair/replace. So you design this thing that you have no hope of fixing with *one* redundant backup?

Let's see...

Crack pipe.

Good to know it wasn't just me who noticed that.

The Bullitt Mustang that someone posted earlier.

I'm torn... but this is definitely one of my top two.

I'm torn... but this is definitely one of my top two.

Bidding is up to $90,000. Someone sees value in it.

Really, why stop at a 5-inch phone screen...

It'll happen. I'd bet money on it. The only question is will it happen before or after a terrorist puts a bomb on a high speed train.

You really think the TSA wouldn't be installed in the high speed rail stations, like they are today at airports?

Do we need more temporary, unskilled, government, labor jobs? Because let's be honest- those are the bulk of jobs that an initiative like this will create. For every highly skilled engineer or controller, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of unskilled manual labor jobs.

Yes, but it's not necessarily going to solve all the problems. For instance O'Hare Airport in Chicago has been trying to expand for, oh, 8 years now. Some homeowners took the city's offer, some didn't and had their homes seized through eminent domain. Then there were lawsuits, some of which are ongoing.

Are you really naive enough to think it's going to *stay* at half a trillion? That it'll be the first Government project to come in anywhere near the projected budget, let alone actually *on* budget?

This.