Some people enjoy traditions, and eh, whatever floats their boat. I don't have a problem with people who like their romantic relationships to be old-fashioned.

Meanwhile, in an alternate time-line: "... And since that day, all future presidents of America were selected by process of elimination through broad-sword duels."

None of the flying cars in that image actually worked particularly well, though, regardless of how much money you'd have to throw at them. :P

Come on, everyone knows a flying car shouldn't look like a weird airplane with big wheels strapped on — it should look like a little space-ship with a bubble roof, or maybe like a regular car with the wheels replaced by some futuristic glowy dealies... :P

Well, it may be far more practical in some ways, but come now: If someone offered to trade you a flying car for it, you'd be pretty tempted, wouldn't you? :P

Ehhh - close enough.

I remember when I was in junior and middle school, accusing someone of being gay was treated on the playground as the most insulting and hurtful thing you could say to them. By high school attitudes had slightly matured, but with that kind of experience, I'm not surprised that most non-straight high school students…

I dunno, I think the status of women in the church is a pretty big deal...

The technology itself is awesome. Using it to create zombie Reagan is hilarious.

In space, everyone can see your face. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace

I think that when it comes to swear-words, we're seeing a change in culture that's pretty much inevitable at this point. Another disaster we didn't avoid?

I think we're very over-confident about the improbability of nuclear war these days. It scares me. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists still has its clock set at five to midnight. http://www.thebulletin.org/ The nukes are still there. International tensions and conflicts are still there. The only thing that's really…

I strongly agree. I think since the end of the Cold War we've become over-confident in the unlikelihood of nuclear war, and this scares me. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists still has their doomsday clock set at 5 minutes to midnight. http://www.thebulletin.org/

While I agree that this copying isn't really reanimation, since the initial instance of you would still experience death and be gone forever, it's still quite a bit more than a vanity project or some weird and creepy exercise in mind-taxidermy. In theory, we are talking about creating a perfect replica of a human…

Neither perspective rings true to me. From the copy's perspective, it would be "you." It may be aware that it's a copy, but it would still be a conscious being with the same identity as you. Focusing too much on the distinction seems to miss the point that even if it's not a continuation of the consciousness you are…

That does not make sense to me as a scientific question. From a religious perspective, if you believe in souls and the like, it may make sense to view the brain as the part of your physical body on this plane that is somehow linked to the "real" you on some "higher" plane. But from a scientific perspective, there…

Someone posted this xkcd strip in response to a similar comment on some previous story, but I think it fits here as well.

The reason they'd make a good pet is that they're really quite intelligent animals — which also means they'd probably get very bored and unhappy in a cage or other confined space.

Hey bros! SEX! Amirite?

What would make a project like this exciting is not scale, but realism. It's not exciting to hear that someone's dreamed up a 20-mile tower. I can sit back and dream up awesome super-science inventions too. The exciting thing would be if someone said "I've actually figured out a way to make the construction of a…