Uh, did that one alien from Signs get a job at the LHC or what?

No. The doctors will say what you said, for the most part. They’ll say, “there’s virtually no chance of recovery” and something you left out, “we recommend withdrawing care.”

I agree, there are just too many problems with Venus and too many nicer candidates for colonization. You can keep your venusian airships, Ill take my South-Pole esque habitat on Titan any day. While they’re worrying about falling into the crushing abyss I’ll be taking a leisurely dip in my hydrocarbon lake

Easy fix.... slap ole Ackmed on one of these and let him go about his business....

I wonder if flogging would even work on Mars, given the reduced gravity. Stoning, maybe, but you’d have to be careful not to put too much force behind the thrust.

I have difficulty getting excited about “cooperation” with a nation that punishes apostasy by death, and thinks flogging is reasonable.

My guess is that this is a “Give us some money, stay the fuck out of the way, and we’ll put your name on some space shit” kind of deal. At least I hope it is.

I’m amused that the UAE even has a space agency. Kind of like the Jamaican bobsled team. I mean, it can obviously be done, but it results in a resounding “why?”.

Great. Now we have to worry about someone crashing the shuttle into our space station.....

Did you drive to work, safely, not really worrying about whether or not some small army was going to kill your family because they attend another church?

Jade Helm 4.0!

Climate denial has its people on both sides of the aisle, it is just a matter of what they are in denial about.

Monsanto is the only one being harmed by the anti-GMO movement? Draught resistant crops and Malaria fighting mosquitos empowered by GMO science is only hurting Monstanto? No sir. The US populace will be fine without GMO’s. We have enough acreage and a strong enough climate. Check the developing world for the people…

“I just don’t see this becoming a situation in which most Democrats/liberals/whatever are opposed to vaccines”

And traditional health care is an approximately 2.7 trillion dollar industry in the US, so what’s your point? 34 billion is chump change, a pinch more than 1% of all health care spending.

I don't think there's a problem with GMOs. What I do know is that Monsato, et al, are making a monopoly out of GMOs.

Ugh, no please, don’t make going to Mars mind-numblingly boring...

Wouldn’t even save time entering search terms. I’d have to tell the computer, in “natural language” what I want. That takes time. Whereas, when I use Westlaw or Lexis, I use proximity connectors. For example, if I want to find out whether debt basis needs to be restored before stock basis in an S Corp, I type in “debt…

So, you’re an engineer trying to tell me how to practice law? You understand why your opinion is meaningless, right? Should I tell you how to engineer?

Uh... yeah, I use it every day and the product is just fine, if you understand how to use it. It is literally the EXACT SAME as the described ROSS.