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Just out of curiousity (this is a bit off-topic), but how far are we from capability to tap the energy in the earth's core? That's a common sci-fi source of energy, but if done right (and the tap is in an area where seismic disruptions can be controlled), this would be a very clean, efficient...

"Or maybe we should just dig a big hole in the Sahara desert and put everything there." Or, once launches become relatively cheap, we can take big loads of it and hurl them into the sun. What is the actual mass of the nuclear waste output in question? I don't know much about this really, but...

My tastes just can't be pigeonholed that easily.... I tend to like, what I call "good music"--and that can fall into any category (well, maybe not "trash metal" ;) ). "Not good" music can also fall into any category too. For example, under "glam rock" I like David Bowie and Queen, don't mind...

Most humane seems to be the firing squad. Lethal injection can sometimes produce painful complications before death, as can gas (although probably not CO--that wouldn't be so bad). Only thing about the firing squad is, I'd be sh*tting my pants when I heard the safeties click off on all those...

"I work actively (and almost daily) to end the drug war for a multitude of reasons (not including personal ones, I never have and never will do drugs, and don't condone it for anyone)." Through what organization? I belong to the Libertarian Party, which has legalization in its platform among...

After seeing yet another of their ads linking drug use to terror activities, I wrote the following e-mail to www.theantidrug.com: "Personally I find your recent propaganda campaigns on television to be offensive and an insult to my intelligence. Relating buying marijuana to terrorism...

Man, this sounds like a good one! (I have no experience with its predecessor though.) Wonder how big that database is though....

Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" movies, or in "Unforgiven". Keven Costner as "Wyatt Earp". Harrison Ford as Han Solo in "Star Wars" and of course, as "Indiana Jones". Tom Hanks as "Forrest Gump". Larry Fishburne in "Deep Cover" (and he also played a good Ike Turner in that movie made...

Yes, for all the reasons above! Plus a few more: 1) Prevention of extinction through war. Even if we hold our population to it's current number (6-odd billion), the planet's resources will dwindle over time, and humans will fight over the scraps that remain. I doubt seriously too that nuclear...

And the stupidest QUESTION in song goes to: "Do you really wanna hurt me?" --the Culture Club Well, I remember hearing that on the radio in the "Dark Ages" of "rock"/pop music (the 80s), and thinking, "if I am to abide hearing this pap a few minutes longer, I'm going to HAVE to hurt...

I generally like the Police (and Sting), but there's a line that grates me too: "It's no use, he sees her, he starts to shake and cough Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov" (from "Don't Stand So Close to Me", the Police) I mean, c'mon, THAT'S a stretch of a rhyme, all so you...

"Not that we're ever going to find aliens...I believe they exist, but nowhere near Star Wars/Star Trek levels. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if we were the only species in the galaxy, considering the chain of events that led evolution to where we are today...there's also a theory that...

Well, the church tried to silence Galileo, and they did temporarily--but science moved on in spite of it. It may not have been until 1968 (I believe it was) when the Pope finally acknowledged the errors of the Church regarding Galileo, admitting that he was correct, but I'm sure most Catholics a...

I don't think you should have used the word "surrender" (for those particularly of the "manly" conceit, it evokes a negativity because they think it is automatically some sort of cowardice--I could just see Darkshade's quote ("no retreat, no surrender") coming from SOMEBODY, when I started...

"Why not just have a blanket option "ANYTHING with Pauly Shore"." Oh, man, I forgot about that guy--actually got suckered into seeing TWO of his contributions to cinema over the years. Can't remember much about them, I guess I've blocked the horror from my conscious mind....

Out of the list, Star Trek V was the worst--probably because I don't think I've seen (or remember seeing) many of the others on your list. But ST5 bored the sh*t out of me. Come to think of it, so did ST1.... Contrasting sharply with 2 (Khan!) and 6, which I think were excellent. Oh...

"I assume that most of you at least pretend to themselves to belief that killing civilians is wrong. So what if you, the nice little patriot, joined the army (for example in the Third Reich) to fight for your country, and then your commanding officer tells you and others to shoot a group of...

I don't think it is geometrically possible to have a two-dimensional world map that depicts both the exact shape AND size of land bodies throughout. For instance, on Mercator's map the SHAPE of Greenland is accurate, but the size is not. On the equal-area projections shown by Hurricane, the...

"Personally, for me, my country is less important than the state of how it's run! I'd as soon fight against it as for it." BOTH are definitely important to me, for different reasons: The integrity and security of my country is important because my family, other loved ones, and myself all...

"That making some other bastard die for his country quote...I've always taken it as this: "Patton was a General and he had command over young men to do the fighting for him...in the same way the older generations have always abused the ignorance of youth to do their fighting for them."...