Every once in a while someone posts a comment that 99/100 readers will read and think, man that person has no clue... Welcome to the new gilded age.

Or they're pure entertainment that you're taking way too seriously.

Sometimes it’s more about the process than the final result.

I couldn’t disagree with you more, especially as it relates to Chicago. In every other city in which I’ve lived, the lifetime residents rarely actually understand how to get around, except to those “extremely familiar” places. Contrast that with Chicago, where almost to a person, everyone knows how to get anywhere.…

I enjoyed it viscerally, both as a spectacle and because some of the acting was really good despite a bad script and plot (especially from Raffey Cassidy). Maybe it’s because the movie was so goddamn earnest that it rubbed off on me - I loved that it had an unabashedly optimistic message.

I put a picture of the episode in question where it happens. It’s called Second Chances in TNG.

SAO shows us why you shouldn’t play a new game on launch day.

That’s what’s always bothered me with this tech. I mean, the concern was even mentioned in canon (Bones?). You’re essentially replicating a perfect copy of the original, which is destroyed at the source. That’s highly highly disturbing to me.

Star Trek style teleporters. For all the the issues with them not being able to work without teleportation pads on both sides the biggest issue for anyone using them would be the fact that each time you use one it KILLS YOU and replaces you with a duplicate on the other side.

“Some companies prepare deli meats largely by hand to maintain that old world tradition.”

All set, I deleted it. If you have any further issues feel free to contact me but I’ll be closing out this case.

120 feet is crap. I can walk that far without building some nonsense contraption.

We can build dyson islands right now with current tech and construction methods. And once we're harvesting, working and constructing in space, the economics of the mission are a net-gain for the global economy, because even just a couple dyson islands can collect more energy, process more space-borne material, and…

I would venture that if an advanced life form exists, and knows about us, then it's a 99% chance we are a self evolving AM/PM for a future way station for them.

If you're interested in a good short story on a similar subject, you should give "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov a read: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.…

Yes, which is why we're not going to "detect" them at all, unless they want to be detected.

Do you at least understand why it pisses them off so much that your native tongue is the one, and basically only one, represented in the "universal" Unicode, with the apparent knee-jerk reaction to them pointing that out being that people respond by telling them to

Others have brought up the Planck length, which would be a final limit, but for practical purposes you'd be more bound by wavelength. Using photons, you can't see anything smaller than the length of the wave - as in, you can't even see that it's there. You obviously need a wavelength several times smaller than an…