Yep.  It's rather like trying to golf with just a driver.  You can do it, but your score will suck.

???  What does any of that have to do with this article?

Maybe.  It'll be interesting to see if your supposition holds water.

What I find particularly amusing is the graph showing "Obama's Recovery Shortfall".  It starts in 2005 at the height of the housing bubble (which was unsustainable) and projects a line (blue) based on the artificially high slope of the housing bubble.  It would be good to see that graph taken from 1980 onward.  I'm sur...more

He does seem to be cherry picking his data to fit his conclusion, and ignoring the data that diagrees.

I'm with Norman West.  Humans will continue to live on (as will cock roaches), however, the current civilization will not.  I think that Hawking is actually rather optimistic that our civilization will last another 1000 years without a massive correction to the population.

Yeah he did.  I'd check with a lawyer on that one.

Having a standing military made sense back when we could get cheap oil from the middle east.  These days.... not so much.  Wew should keep a couple of aircraft carrier fleets, some subs, a small assult force (infantry), and our nukes.  The rest our military appratus and foriegn bases should be dismantled and put in mot...more

The post in the >>> <<< was someone else's... my reponse is below that.