I don't think this has much market for cargo. The economics of cargo shipping are built around scale, not speed. Unless this is significantly cheaper than air travel, which I find doubtful, and can operate regardless of the weather (also doubtful), air shipping is still going to rule for situations where speed matters.

So it wasn't a metaphor but at least you wrote a readable sentence? Hold up, have a look at these and tell me where we're not meeting eye to eye:

One of us doesn't.

Last year, I put together a list of the "peaceful" uses of nuclear weapons that various countries floated over the years. In hindsight, it looks like madness.

How we roll? Aren't you funny.

Because it's taken until now for this film to be made? Yeah, me too. Think of all the eras of history, from the ancient paleolithic through the Hellenic and medieval, from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Victorian to the modern day when people like you and I had to suffer without a film wherein Dolph Lundgren…

I would take your initial question a step further. I don't think any of these statements can be made with even a modicum of certainty (though the author seems very sure of himself). Every point is pure conjecture and speculation.

I'd point you towards Daniel Suarez's 'Daemon', but for a shorter version.

It's due to a change in personnel, I seem to remember a time, pre-Dvorsky, when other writers penned some of these articles.

Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed there's a trend on io9 to make absolute declarations about the future. That's interesting as a hook for an article title, but isn't it a bit contrary to the nature of science and science fiction?

I'm glad that we now have the luxury of critiquing what would have been a better way of exploring a changing sexuality on television. Of course, framing it in the context of when it happened, exactly what forerunning was there to draw from? Personally, I thought the way things unfolded was pretty awesome. I'm not the…

I don't think you and I watched the same Angel because Fred's arc steamrolled to the point where it, in some ways, defined the show at the end. And Darla's arc on Angel was fantastic ("No matter how good a boy you are, God doesn't want you! But I still do."). I don't know, perhaps the finale did a great job of…

To be honest, I don't like Angel or Riley. I find them both boring, and both pale in comparison to Oz, who is interesting, funny, intelligent, and barely broods. That was pretty much all Angel ever does and Riley does his fair share also. In general, I don't think Buffy is given any sort of attractive (holistically…

Because awkward, probably scared and confused teenagers always handle their sexuality identity in a subtle, well thought out manner. This is something i've noticed a lot, especially lately. People take things characters say as literal fact. They don't seem to account for exaggeration or awkwardness or the characters…

This guy:

You want an overlooked superhero? How about a guy who was killed off-panel, between issues, and then given a "funeral issue" in which the writer got his name wrong?

I don't think that's how gastroepithelial transporters work, but whatever floats your boat.

You do realize that science has already disproven vitalism back in 1828?

While I agree that foods packed with nutrients can provide most, if not all, of our dietary needs, the fact of the matter is that many of us eat very poorly. A perfectly balanced diet isn't always possible, leading to nutritional deficiencies.

Actually, dry pill form vitamins have longer shelf life than liquids. Lyophilized chemicals can pretty much last forever. On the other hand, water is very good at degrading molecules (which is why most drugs are stored as dry powers and mixed into liquids only when needed).