Of course, of course, I agree. I just figured most everyone already understood that. I shouldn't assume though, should I?

The department of Fabrique Nationale is much more reliable in these situations.

Stop applying logic to how the politicians govern us military folk. That apparently doesn't work. My "stop giving General Officers personal drivers & cars" argument to help not cut everyone's base pay didn't hold up for the same reason.

I knew I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of that.

"I live by morals, I don't live by laws,"

Excellent....

I watched "Independence Day" when I was like 5 and ever since have had an irrational fear of aliens. Not really abduction, but the commonly portrayed big eyes, big head, skinny limbs kind just freak me the hell out. Anyway, where I'm going with this is that picture is going to keep me up all god damned night. And I…

You've got a good point. Could this mining venture go hand in hand or at least pave the way for our first orbital refineries and maybe even a space dry dock?

You assume there will be people setting foot on asteroids. Much more likely the only thing that will get to touch down will be automated equipment, drones, rovers, robots, whatever term you'd like to use.

Well we've already got the whole "crazed religious sect" thing down pat, all we need is the space mining.

Eh, it is, why I try to keep my nose out of it these days. Still, OSX's claims are kind of like when they went around saying the Titanic was unsinkable, to this day people use that kind of hubris as an example oh what NOT to be. So anyway the moral of the story is, if you fail hard enough, Jame's Cameron is going to…

That's awesome! India is one of those places that I just know very little about for some reason, thank you.

"Oh and Agni is the Hindi word for fire."

Would it be immature to jump around going "nananana tooooold you so!" ....maybe, but it'd feel SO good.

The irony, it hurts.

A-"OH GOD WHERE'S THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER?!"

Air Force here, they almost didn't pay us several months ago....good luck getting blood from a stone! Ok that's also a joke, I'm sure the Navy will pay what's due, to that guy at least.

I grok it.

Not everyone is as pretentious as that, lossless, lossy, most people do not care or notice. You keep on enjoying your crystal clear FLAC audio files from your desktop or laptop and I'll continue to stream acceptable quality audio over my grandfathered, unlimited verizon data plan (to answer the question of where all…

I like this idea a lot, and am in the same boat as you. Currently the only way I like eating panckaes is dry, but with lots of chocolate chips and bannanas cooked into it, so it's more like a morning pastry than anything else.