LukeTim

The issue should be less about "helping the poor", and more about eliminating being poor as a possibility... thereby no needing to help anyone since they can then help themselves. A fantastic welfare policy I recently discovered from The Green Party in the UK reads thus: "Everyone to receive a basic Citizen's Income to allow everybody to make meaningful choices between paid employment, part-time work, self employment, volunteering and encourage a better balance between work and everyday life." ie, work is no longer something that must be done for the sake of survival - security is guaranteed - but it is something we can choose to do because it is meaningful to us. I know people are going to comeback and say "somebody has to do the jobs nobody wants to" and things like that... but who said those jobs had to be done solely by specific individuals? I do probably need to consider this more before a fully formed idea can take shape in my head... but I firmly believe that to hold people's lives to ransom, until they work for it, is wrong, and we need some immense change to stop it... because it is no longer necessary.

I dunno... perhaps I'd laugh at you saying this is science fiction if I had understood a word you just said.

My first major Redstone Project (and the only one I finished, really): A 2 bit adder/multiplier with 7 segment display for output... PC Minecraft, but honestly does that really matter?

I don't know about you, but I have never felt any urge even remotely approaching that... and I am pretty sure that a large (>95%) percentage of people don't feel any such urge either. Reading your post was a really depressing experience. I'll give you credit for the commercial sub-orbital flights around the world, though. That is definitely going to happen. London to Sydney in 30 minutes AND a view of the Earth from an altitude of 500km?... Yes please. Anyway, I think that chemical energy (unless you count batteries) is on its way out... it will either have a much lesser presence by 2070 or will have virtually gone completely. In its place will be early forms of Fusion energy (how about a rocket powered exclusively by a controlled fusion reaction? Much like Orion but with much less nuclear fallout), more renewable energies (some much more efficient and effective ion thruster designs), and perhaps some very early matter-antimatter solutions. Heck, with NASA looking at Warp Drives now, we could have seen those at work (short distances and small objects, probably) by 2070.

Another cool thing that I guess would come with cities would be artificial lights on the dark side of Kerbin.

Given that Unity uses PhysX, surely the physics simulation is already accelerated on NVidia cards...

I know it's unlikely to happen due to the potential computational complexity of having this on a planetary scale, but cities with destructible buildings would be amazing. Sitting in sandbox mode firing rockets at Kerbin's capitals in order to reduce them to rubble would be pretty fun. Maybe launching multiple warheads into orbit, and coordinating a simultaneous strike... Y'know, just for fun.

Ahh, I was thinking supersonic ≡ speed of sound at sea level... which I guess isn't true.

To be fair, if any of those Astronauts go EVA, they are essentially doing exactly that... Making Felix not the first.

"... Alright, seen it now. Let's go home, lads."

GPU overheat can cause complete shutdown. My GPU's overheating kept shutting down my PC... I updated the drivers and the temperature management was better so it stopped happening.

We should be going mostly Nuclear whilst we look at ways to make a totally renewable solution a viable option. Really frustrating that ignorant "environmentalists" insist that Nuclear is a worse option than Fossil Fuels.

I would totally do it if I had the chance... would be awesome.

In just under 40 minutes Felix Baumgartner is going to be the first person to reach supersonic speeds in freefall, falling from a height of 120,000 feet. And you can watch it, Live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJ5ItzEq3M&feature=player_embedded

Well, if the magnet is strong enough then I can't imagine why not... provided you could ensure somehow that the force is always attractive, so it is then an effective allegory for gravity, you wouldn't want one magnet spinning around and starting to repel the other away. I guess monopoles could achieve this, though I don't know whether they exist at a macro scale.