he risked his life on what was little more than a modified icbm; one that could explode if you looked at it funny.

what the hell is an aluminum falcon?

which costs more? a pound of regular oreos or a pound of double stuff oreos?

in what universe is milk 50 cents a gallon? in my neighborhood milk is $4 per gallon - even costco charges more than $2 per gallon. and so what if a loaf of bread is $2. it seems you want to put the poor on a bread and milk diet.

a solar sail with a number of cubesats as the payload.

with a lightweight payload, a solar sail could reach a significant fraction of the speed of light, letting a spacecraft make the journey to proximal centauri in six to eight years, within the lifespan of a robot probe.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSolar_sail

CubeSats are small and light enough for several to be packed into a solar sail payload. the individual sats can be configured for separate tasks like imaging, field measurements, etc. perhaps with some extras for redundancy.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCubeSat

i think the cubesats would still need some sort of relay satellite to receive their transmissions and send them on to earth, but a large number of small satellites would allow the solar sail probe the flexibility multiple points of interest.

let's say, instead of bitcoins, the federal agents were trying to buy a 10 ounce bar of gold, which, they told the defendant, they were going to use to make illegal transactions. 10 ounces of gold are not money either. would the transaction be called money laundering or would it be legal?

Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty app!

41,149 - suicide (21,175 of them by firearms, about 2/3 of all firearm deaths)
38,861 - accidental poisonings and overdoses (passed traffic accidents recently)
        packages of poisons (insecticide, weed killer, rat poison) and toxic materials like cleaning fluid are regulated.

37,908 - (land) motor vehicle accidents (nearly 3/4 alcohol-related)
        motor vehicles have to be registered and drivers licensed and insured. drunk driving is illegal.

30,208 - accidental falls (mostly among the elderly)
        slippery floors have to be marked. public areas have to beveled in non-slip materials.

16,904 - other accidents
16,121 - homicide (11,208 by firearms)
4,587 - Other undetermined events (281 by firearms)
3,391 - accidental drowning
          pools have to be fenced off and public pools and beaches have to have lifeguards

2,768 - complications from medical and surgical care
        doctors and health care providers have to be insured.

2,760 - accidental fire
        fire codes

1,569 - water, air, space vehicle accidents
        solas for boats, FAA regulates air safety.

1,000 - other land transport accidents
        NTSB

516 - killings by law enforcement (usually by firearms)
505 - accidental discharge of firearms

basically, all the man-made potential causes of death are regulated for safety.some quite successfully (traffic deaths are way down from their peak). why should firearms be exempt from safety regulations when practically everything else is regulated for safety?

not unprecedented, dick cheney shot his friend, Harry Whittington, in the face and Whittington apologized for getting in the way of the buckshot.

if republicans were so concerned about biased political reporting from media outlets, they could always restore the fairness doctrine.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFairness_Doctrine

nuclear and coal use steam. also concentrated solar power and geothermal power plants. gas and petroleum are usually burned directly in a turbine although there may be a few gas fired steam turbine plants left.

nuts to that - give us a leisure suit larry movie.

i'll bet they're effective when they're 30 kilowatt lasers. pew! pew! pew!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQzhR5JSma60

let's all chip in and buy them a linksys router,

the "Digital" category is multitasking.