Yes!

The point is whether the government should recognize their rights, not how the government might be made to do this. Consider a simplistic analogy with the slaves in the Confederate south. Clearly the means to forcing the government to recognize the rights of the slaves were horrific. This does not mean that the…

Well this depends on what extent we recognize non-human species as conscious and deserving of rights. If a non-human species is conscious then it deserves at least some sort of rights. In this case I would expect laws should be established to defend those rights. This is because your rights do not extend to the…

The problem with "improving our genetic stock" is that we are nowhere near sophisticated enough in our understanding of the genetic code and how it is expressed to actually accomplish that goal. This ignores of course the obvious ethical question of what improving our genetic stock even means. Even something that…

Good to know my sarcasm senses are still working.

Until the robots are intelligent...

Is this sarcasm?

That sort of solution would be extremely disappointing because it is in essence a non-solution (it is equivalent to giving up).

Venture to yahoo and feast your eyes upon the comments... then you can talk about dumb posts on the internet (political stories tend to bring out the worst)

According to the LOTR wiki

IQ tests and the SAT are tests that can be prepared for of course because they have a consistent format and ask certain predictable types of questions. Simply training yourself to think in the manner that the test expects you to think can dramatically improve your score. To make a more accurate test the questions need…

I did wonder at that...

My preference, similar but more absurd,

Yeah, the ideas on human nature, the future, and consciousness were striking. I think this series and the movies were one of the reasons I really got into anime.

Naturally, fuel cells would be a distributed system where each unit has its own power. It has disadvantages but as for explosive potential consider the explosive potential of gas heating and yet that is incredibly common, clearly people are willing to take the risk.

Please read,

I see you are an optimist. Well, I certainly hope you are right.

I agree with your opinion for the most part but I just want to add that fuel cells are a very promising alternative as well.

My Chemistry teacher in high school would do a demo where she would have people cover their hands with water and soap then use a hose connected to a hydrogen tank to fill their hands with hydrogen filled bubbles. Then of course she would light the bubbles to make a nice fire ball. It was not as dangerous as you might…

I am not sure, but I do not think that was the intended message.