Hi, forgot your pills? Anyway, SETI searched that area expressely after the Wow signal, to find other evidence of the same type. Now identifying a possible planet is *highly* speculative, and to back that we could only repeat the same observations we already did.

I seem to remember that SETI extensively examined that area, and nothing unusual was recorded.

Or they can create hardware that comply more nicely with existing standards, think USB standard classes for example, but similar standards exist for other interfaces, too. Or release technical specifications of the hardware, at least the parts needed to interface with it. That way parts of existing drivers could be reused without reinventing the wheel in a dedicated driver.

We choose to build a thorium reactor in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!

Sheldon, is it you?

Getting DNA samples from crocodiles' teeth.

It's very unnatural and gives you more headache than added value. It's good as a funny experience from time to time, but not more than that. Or maybe this is only a limit of current technology, that's far from a literal "virtual reality" as you may see in sci-fi.

and the Second Foundation is watching you, be careful!

So according to newspapers Lamarck rules in space? That would be his final revenge.

Maybe he has to build a fire-wall.

Presumably many people keep or contribute to public projects on github because it's the most used one, and keep their private stuff on bitbucket or gitlab because it's free, so offering them a chance to unify everything in one place could actually be a huge win for github.

Bitbucket is the place you go if you want a free private git repository on the cloud, so this is simply competition, not goodwill.

Impress their government to not be fired, or worse?

Possibly they owe the volunteers writing Wikipedia contents, not Wikipedia.

I think computers may have intelligence without necessarily having a conscience, if we agree on these terms. If computers and robots will become able to do everyday tasks like or better than humans, that's ok even if they don't "feel" like humans. In fact I think the latter would be counterproductive.