It's once again, only a "hack" in that you save a tiny bit of money for a comparatively huge time investment. Which is great, I guess, if you have lots of tools and materials but no job.

I want to catch them all.

Then take a look at the funding a smalltown fire department gets. See what share of the meagre tax base gets allocated to them, and the endless appeals that have to be written just to get replacement safety gear. You don't really see our soldiers having to have bake sales to buy a new bulletproof vest.

Smash lab is a fun class.

Reality check: Kickstarter projects are not driven by the practical aspects, or they wouldn't need kickstarter to fun it. They are driven purely by novelty. Bored people with cash to burn have to be entertained by the idea. Not sold on the difference it will make.

Prepareing to click this video, I am reminded of the news coverage of them trying to blow up that whale. I feel like the 70's and 80's occupied this magical time where the news coverage was finally there to document craziness, and the foresight of all the things that could go wrong wasn't there yet. Probably the…

Science reporting:

Aww Dang, it's been scooped out!

Slow clap for not knowing how to hashtag and syntax. This feels like a text from my grandmother.

"War mongering"

It's not about maximizing anything. That's what all these commenters are missing. It's a compromise, a transition technology . It's supposed to be maximally light, maximally versatile, and maximally cheap. Its training wheels. You don't design training wheels for kid's bikes to be super overwhelmingly engineered. You…

But you can't abbreviate "advertisement'?

I'm just amused at the about face of all the commentators.

Last I checked this was college, not high school. Children my ass. These are adults, with all the rights and responsibilities that come with it.

If the creator of a character says it fits with the character he created, I'm going to take his word over random internet commentator #417.

Not really, no. He is saying it fits with the story and characters in the already-modified plotline.

Who said anything about "need"?

They are talking about the roadway itself, not the surface.

Let's put on our thinking caps. They specifically talk about roads and bridges a lot in the article. They go out of their way to talk about infrastructure costs and service life of roads and bridges.

People like you are why I don't deal with laypersons unless I am forced to anymore.