@Skunky: Let's see. One terrorist + a few tracer bullets + big fat slow targets = Hot Thanksgiving in NYC...

Pretty strange, for the second most common element in the Universe, huh?

@edixoo: A lot of pressure-fed rocket engines will be in trouble, too. Other gases condense out at a higher temperature than the stuff they're trying to push, and/or are too reactive with same...

@CarrerCrytharis: Thank you. I can't look at the star's name without thinking that, too...

@Mark 2000: My new idea...body armor.

@erika: And people do die of non-age related reasons...

@WookieLifeDay: It would be great, if we were already good at getting to the Moon, in order to check it out (much less on the verge of going to Jupiter)...

@comics0026: This also assumes that one would detonate them as evenly across the globe as possible. No one's going to waste a nuke where there's no remotely worthy target. (And often the targets are other nukes. One nuclear-tipped torpedo, for example, can rake out a ballistic missile submarine carrying tens of…

@sollipse: " Yeah, lasers are just focused heat. They can be turned back by mirrored surfaces, or heat-reflective/resistant materials."

@NerD:blogOtaku: That's quite all right. Others have.

@Walking Eye!:The Business-Casual Gamer: Yep. Trek acknowledged the concept of 'Holodeck Addiction.' Couch potatoes on steroids. It would happen.

@GusF: Jules Verne was there first...

@Davio: (Side note: Because of its porn meaning, I can no longer see or read 'facial' in the cosmetic sense, with a straight face at all...)

@UweBollocks: So is taking a leak. But men can do that, lined up, (usually) no eye contact, as well...

@roughneck117: Trek-like holodecks? For porn? It's like George Carlin once said of a dog's ability to turn far enough to lick his privates...

@Knight_of_Pentacles: "Just don't sit in the same row as Pee Wee Herman!"

@Rawrnosaourous: "I don't want to be in an enclosed dark theater with other guys..." Period.

@dkl415: 'Escape' (a.k.a. 'The Pina Colada Song') meets Asian porn?