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Re:It all began with a strange email on Friday June 15, 2012 @09:42AM (#4116416)
>If every U.S. citizen could create dollars, we would indeed have hyperinflation.

For that same reason we don't give the power to create dollars to Congress.

Re:Voyager 1 this close to leaving solar system on Thursday June 14, 2012 @11:36AM (#4111805)
There is the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper probe belt sent in 2006. The thing is fast, it passed Jupiter in 13 months and is currently beyond the orbit of Uranus.
I forget where I read it (The Selfish Gene?) but Richard Dawkins predicted that life expectancy would increase as people had children later.