It's the networking. Not everyone gets the hang of it, but I'd be lying if I said certain factors made certain networks more accessible. I may disagree with the modern "Harrison Bergeron" approach to dealing with it, but that doesn't change the fact that there's much work to be done.

Supposedly her final words were asking about someone named "Wilbur"... /shrug

Eh, I know that, I just think it's a cop-out. But nobody asked me, did they?

He worried that its absence would impose a big and unwanted change to his identity.

Oh, agreed. I was just pointing out that if it became worth it, it would happen. Didn't think a brace of caveats to it would be needed, but...so it goes.

Largely. The proviso "sufficiently valuable to justify the effort" went unwritten, but was assumed as given. The moment someone finds magic moon monopoles to move mountains to Mintaka, that treaty goes out the airlock.

Lasts until something particularly valuable is found. Then all bets are off.

To be blunt, anyone dumb enough to introduce an evil character into a party with a paladin...well, my sympathy will be limited.

If you control your pool's PH level properly, you won't have that problem...

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Journalists botch a story because they don't know what they're talking about? I'm shocked, shocked...

Lots of places have a Gallifrey.

Sadly, a listing of sponsors at least seems to indicate that was a bipartisan clusterf*ck at best. Makes one wonder what anyone was thinking when that was passed.

I'm well aware of that, but the amount of energy focused in one place makes for a different set of issues, one I'm not optimistic is being examined there. Your response is rather like insisting that lasers can't possibly be harmful, 'cause we're almost always in light, and if it was harmful, we'd all be dead by now...

The mail's cheap. The Post Office, not so much. (Seriously, if they charged what it took to make income = outgo, stamps would cost so much it might kill the thing entirely. Not sure I'm fond of that fact, honestly.)

Wait, you're actually going to tell me that beaming multiple streams of powerful microwave energy through the Earth's atmosphere will be environmentally friendly? Not to mention effects on migratory animals, communications, etc.?

...makes the whole world blind.

Heh. I vote for 'Revelations' as a better endpoint...provided a final set of twists: Upon examination, 'Earth' is Caprica...and I suspect you can guess the rest...

I was thinking more Infinity Gauntlet myself...

...honestly, you just knew this was going to happen sooner or later.