You are very much in the right - your comment should be at the top of any discussion based on US bond fire-sale fears.

To be fair, china itself, especially when referred to as "fine" actually has very specific objective properties which were very highly regarded and well known.

If I could star this a billion times, I would. The structure of government is beautiful - the people actually in Congress, mucking it up, not so much.

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but that picture up top seems to be representative of an area roughly 1ft by 2.5ft (~.5 - ~.75 meters).

If anything can be proven, it's that a lot of change (bad and good) can be had for not a lot of actual insight.

Just make sure I'm in there too...

I'm going to give Lug the benefit of the doubt and say that it is one thing, like street racing or drugs, that a loud minority take offense to, and do anything in their power to militantly oppose, despite not being directly affected by it at all.

Your pet theory is my stroke of brilliance!

You've got it the wrong way around.

Meh - I would not be surprised if we decided to kill two birds (ha) with one stone and test out some surface-to-air satellite take-downs on old tech.

How crazy would it be, if and when we may discover that there are no signs of life on moons such as these, to turn said moons into a gigantic petri dish?

Again, it's just the very idea.

In this day and age, why would anyone use the term "phone" in the name of their mobile device?

I really, really do not want to be that guy... not today... not on a Friday.

What?

Additionally, the tube itself is going to be made of a magical material that will not be affected in any way by changes in temperature, vandalism, or other natural occurrences/disasters.

Which... book?

"Physical constraints of metabolism" has very little to do with the discussion at hand, so it will be ignored. There will always be some constraint to consumption greater than or equal to a system's overall energy expenditure/need/utilization.

*zing*

So -