Impractical because no matter how fast Usain (or any human is) 99% of predators out there could catch us. His speed doesn't help him.

While those people are not using the most cutting edge technology, they are indeed using technology. Technology is what defines us as humans. We are tool makers. The tech some people are using is decades, maybe centuries, old, but tech it is none the less.

While those people are not using the most cutting edge technology, they are indeed using technology. Technology is what defines us as humans. We are tool makers. The tech some people are using is decades, maybe centuries, old, but tech it is none the less.

While those people are not using the most cutting edge technology, they are indeed using technology. Technology is what defines us as humans. We are tool makers. The tech some people are using is decades, maybe centuries, old, but tech it is none the less.

and while those people are not using the most cutting edge technology, they are indeed using technology. Technology is what defines us as humans. We are tool makers. They tech some people are using is decades, sometimes centuries, old, but tech it is none the less.

and while those people are not using the most cutting edge technology, they are indeed using technology. Technology is what defines us as humans. We are tool makers. They tech some people are using is decades, sometimes centuries, old, but tech it is none the less.

I feel terrible for participating in this derailment but anyways:

Google clearly should have picked Mars instead of Kansas City for their test run of GoogleFiber.

I keep telling myself that rather than the ignorant, shortsighted people they appear to be, they are in fact master trolls. I would prefer falling into the same troll trap over and over again to believing that this many people actually believe the Curiosity rover was a waste of money.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2674#comic

Care to source that? This is a NASA project, and while I'm sure there was some small amount of assistance, it was almost completely designed, funded, and enacted by NASA.

Actually, whether or not the Olympics is good for the host city is pretty hotly debated. There is some good evidence its actually bad. You should check out the Planet Money podcast on the topic. It's pretty interesting.

HAHAHA.

Actually, the economic benefits of the Olympics are pretty hotly debated. The sponsors make money, the networks make money, and the organizers make money, but there is pretty good evidence showing that long term the olympics are actually bad for the communities that host them.

The mars curiosity actually will be able to test whether or not mars could ever support life and even has the capability to detect life there currently, so yes, it could help reveal the origin of life. That is its primary mission as a matter of fact. It may find that mars never supported life, or it may find that mars…

Not only can the majority of the world "afford" the products born from science and technology, it is literally impossible to NOT use the products of science and technology in todays modern world.

Frankly, sprinting never really had much relevance to our survival as a species, even in prehistoric days. Humans were always endurance hunters. We are too shitty at sprinting to make it worth much of anything at all, yet we have some the best endurance capabilities of any animal on the planet.

While I personally think that money spent on projects like the Curiosity Rover and space exploration (not to mention the rest of science) in general is a better use of our resources, I also think that the Olympics have more value than simple entertainment. They are a chance for nations who never interact with each…

I personally believe that changing the past will only be possible if time travel involves travel not to our own past but to the past of parallel universes, so that we wouldn't actually be changing our own past. Mainly I believe this because if time travel is possible to our own history, then I subscribe to your second…

I don't think that's necessarily a problem, you just get rid of the new guy. Orson Scott Card wrote a book kind of about this. The far future figures out a way to at first just monitor, then actually transmit data to the past. They then find evidence that different versions of the future had altered the past (and in…