I really can't imagine ever being "excited to see [a]... commercial" ...

Exactly. We are part of nature. Maybe we'll fail - this is bad for us, but just fine for nature.

Of course it's bad for you. However, just as Mr Multiverse states, that is not why it is regulated, nor should it be.

No, the health insurance crisis we're in mostly has to do with the insurance industry being a scam that ought to be illegal, like other pyramid schemes. It also breaks the market by destroying buyer influence over service prices.

Judging by the experiences of my teacher friends here in R.I., science isn't on the yearly standardized test, so it doesn't matter. All that matters is "processing the product", which means advancing the students one grade irrespective of whether they've learned anything or not. Government has ceased to be even…

Well, sure, if you keep at it long enough. You can do that with pretty much any object though... this thing isn't exactly Hydrogen Bomb material.

Nature isn't some loving, harmonious goddess of symbiosis. Nature doesn't care. This is an old story, it happens all the time.

This guy's a jackass.

You're entitled to your opinion whether it's informed or not.

The kind they like.

This is more of a weapon of individual murder.

"what it would really be like to fly into a nebula"

Seems like a perfect descriptor, to me.

Okay, that's hilarious.

There you go.

I thought everybody read this in grammar school.

Aww, I thought this was going to be about the Irkan flagship...

He was 73 and already in poor health. Smoking wasn't likely to take many more years off his life at that point.

Yes, of course we should.

Yeah, old stuff is crap. Shakespeare is just a bunch of hackneyed plots that everybody's seem a million times, too.