Keith Veronese's discussions

I'd argue with you, and maybe from the standpoint that academia is now the third leg (tail?) of the military-industrial complex. Read more

It's a stretch, but a possibility if an extreme alteration of the Earth's magnetic pole occurs. Read more

To live to play another day! Read more

The Long Walk vs... Read more

A good way to rig the odds! Read more

I did not know that. 16 kilograms of plutonium hanging around is nothing to mess with. Read more

True. It's an ending to a bad version of Stephen King's The Jaunt. Read more

Very interesting - we might have to do something on this. Read more

The First Sea Lord's ship outranks it though, right? Read more

That is a very hipster-ish app :). Read more

Yeah - you would have to "crack" the upper layer with enough force, but that should be possible. I don't want to be the test subject for seconds to death though. Read more

Good point about "checking out" the person - tricksters will likely abound. Read more

I like it. Read more

Would you help the elderly? This is a little off the question, but we keep around extra non-perishable food because we live near several elderly people (maybe we're saps). Read more

True, within time. Hopefully the infrastructure is up and going (in some part of each continent) before then. I've got two nuclear reactors within 200 miles, so I'm not in a great locale. Read more

So sayeth my stock portfolio at times. Read more

An the Academy Award for Best Use of an iPad in a movie goes to... Read more

Society has a quite a variety of definitions. Read more

That would be too easy to do (grab this random bottle, ____). Lacks adventure. Read more

I think that comes under the realm of number six. Maybe. Read more