@Dayburner: Either one would be interesting to watch...from a safe distance, yes.

@FrankN.Stein: God is a leftie...?

@beaker: "...climate change as a blatherbox topic is something that has already outlasted its welcome while really not being a fixable issue until industries embrace and push for an all-digital business model. "

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: But my first question was 'Where's the write-protect switch?' Brought up on floppies, I expect that, and very few flash drives have it, even now...

@EdgarJPublius: And with yet better and faster communications, and a 24-hour news cycle looking for something, we may also know about quakes (and other relatively minor disasters) that would have been a small page-4 story, not so long ago...

@stalking_goat:

@Jonn: LOL! I remember when push button 'TouchTone(tm)' phones were new and cool. I haven't done it in ages, but I still know what to do with a rotary dial...

@Fauxcused: "Imagine what happens if we crack the aging problem."

@Интернет космонавт: Which was originally designed to go after B-70s...

@NarcoSleepy: Kind of like the 'money shot' in porn...

@Delphinus100: That should, of course have read:

@Clutchman83: I'd have to see that. Heating at Mach 6 would've been beyond what the B-70 structure could take. Even the SR-71 can't do that, and its engines have a turbine bypass function that is pretty much a ramjet (but not supersonic combustion).

@crosis101: We don't have a 'Department of Aviation,' period.

@Lex Luthor II: Yes, you could have a very serious radioactive mess, but no nuclear explosion.

@Jerm Deeks: Yes. Another aesthetic and capable aircraft that got a raw deal...

@Daveinva: Correct. Also, the soviet MiG-25 Foxbat was designed primarily to go up and kill B-70s. That's why it has the impressive operating altitude and time-to-climb specs it does.

@Dwayne Day: Right. There's a difference between a Naval nuclear reactor (nuclear wessel?) that's not going over your head at unknown times...and something that requires actual, multiple nuclear detonations to go somewhere...

@bawheid: Indeed. Some planes are highly functional, but have no...aesthetics. The F-4 Phantom, for example. Capable, but not pretty.

Problem with space elevators:

@joshuaacnewman: "Second, the cable itself generates electricity by moving through the Earth's magnetic field."