McCarthyism was barely 60 years ago and you can't imagine why anyone would have a problem with the government mapping out people's lives and routines?

It's one thing to have single actions out of context being watched by various people, it's quite another to have every action watched by a handful of people. The former keeps you from performing a suspicious action, the latter keeps you from having a suspicious lifestyle.

Oh wait, I forgot I sleep with ear plugs

But say that we did find out, with absolute certainty, that there wasn't any pre-existing life there. Would you still feel it wasn't "meant to be"? Would you still have a problem with it?

Aw fucking shit dicks in hell fire

I don't understand what you mean by "not meant to be". If it's just barren, dead rock, why not treat it however we like? It's not going to hurt anyone or anything, unless we manage to seed it with life. In which case, happy days, we've introduced something that has the capacity to care on at least some level about…

Are there any NASA scientists or teams working on making Mars habitable?

Fingertips are very sensitive, electromagnetic fields make the magnets vibrate ever so slightly depending on the strength of the field, allowing you to 'sense' where and what type they are. Allegedly. I read about it years and years ago but people didn't seem to have made up their minds on whether or how well it…

Is your goldfish a secret republican? Studies say "Most likely"

I don't understand why the software would be such a tremendous obstacle. We already have pretty advanced self-organizing, decentralized algorithms for a ton of different scenarios, why would this be any different?

If it weren't for the biweekly sightings of Jesus on toast, I'd be inclined to agree with you. As it is, psychic TV shows, religious fervor and homeopathy still reign unnervingly supreme, and are enough to convince me that most people'd rather fall back on the comfortable notion of the supernatural over a critical…

Satellites and probes are very different from human beings re: Mars. We still have a few decades of development before we'd have the capability to pull that off, at least if we're the least bit worried about their health and survival.

Also pelicans

Up in northern Scandinavia, reindeer are known to eat lemmings when they swarm. Good source of salt apparently.

During the 19th century, cities relied heavily on wild pigs that roamed the streets to dispose of rotting organic matter.

Ah well, see, it's because you haven't flayed them and left them lying in the sun. There's your problem right there.

I'm not sure I understand, are you sick and tired of books not being comics?

See it as a process. At first it's all soft and spongy skin and curves and breasts and muscles. Then it's hard and chromed skin and curves and breasts and muscles. Then it's hard and chromed skin and curves and breasts and muscles interspersed with wiring, solders, rivets and accessories. Then it's the anthro robotic…

But "Film Festival" in Swedish is "Filmfestival" >_>

I keep imagining that she's just gotten back from a Windows Forms course and wants to make GUIs for everything