I'm having a bad day and you made me chuckle =3

The point with the house of Lords is that it has a different job in the legislative process than other second-tier chambers in other countries. Its much less powerful and is arguably only informative - it does the hard work on making bills work that the governments cant be bothered to do because they just want to push…

I think you're looking for servicemen/servicewomen

'see' ? Seeing as it would render your eyes useless unless you watched it indirectly, I'd be pretty happy with film footage

That game exists, its called ArmA 2, with 3 coming out soon

It was a genuine event, but what you say is also true - there wouldnt be any useable data from the plant. But it really was reported by a real human person.

No, it just places any ties to religion, morals, ethics or societal norms we have into very clear context - this kind of thing is transient.

Definatley many centuries. Although a slowly growing Dyson-web could start now and grow along with requirement like the article says

Exactly, we are mining the very face off of our planet every day. There are plans to take whole asteroids to get whatever percentage of use-able material is inside. Mercury would just be an up-scale

=/ I know what youre getting at and I feel your pain.

"Play with her arse"

Makes my stomach churn

Never strikes twice; he's been there, done that

Seriously? The Chinese dig a giant red metal man who hates the American military?

Zing!

Thats the point, a lot is being made of it being only 40 years, but to a virus culture that is quite a long time to develop variations.

I'm curious, isn't it better to mention 'generations' rather than 'years' in cases like this? Some humans today are almost 40 before they have their first child, but birds could have perhaps 5 fertilized nests of eggs per year?

Doktor Merkwürdigliebe!

And a craven old wise man... I'm getting one. He shall host my Dog Dojo

Very true. I'd hope though that if this was a criminal trial, there would have been some form of expert involved who knew something of the field. Obviously it's in the interest of everyone to just wave this through the system though.