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Another interesting question if I may: Why does one feel the need to be successful? Or maybe one needs to simply be satisfied?

That's right, there are locations here that literally mean : nowhere

Deep deep underground with lots of canned food, diesel and light that can simulate sunlight... Think Zion in the matrix :)

I'm not too sure Australia would be unaffected, there are quite a few US bases / radar stations etc on Aussie soil...the Chinese/Russians may not like it if it came to a head..Antarctica and Greenland maybe?

People can be wary of new neighbours, i don't see why it wouldn't apply to space neighbours. On a brighter note, maybe we should welcome with open arms anyone, after all, better be nice than not nice!

Thanks guys for clarifying. So am I right to think that they don't have any "identity" that makes them "yahoo" anymore and they just collect rent from a bunch of properties they acquired? In my mind, google is google (identified primarily by search) microsoft is Microsoft( primarily identified by windows and office) yahoo is? ... Is it like if Facebook abandoned social media altogether and became a simple owner of "stuff"?

Last time I checked years and years ago, yahoo was kind of a search engine/directory. What does it do now?

There's no such thing as a free lunch, and many people believed they could mine one lunch at no (or very little) cost and expect that lunch to last forever. That's very unfortunate, but who wouldn't see that such a utopia would come to an end. It's like thinking that electric cars will replace other cars in 10 years or 20 years (there's too much at stake , the environment being last on the list). Even if the public was to embrace a such a "currency", governments would step in (and they did) realising they would have no control. The very fact that it became an object of speculation and was making people richer meant it wasn't a currency anyway, it was no better than property, therefore spawned a bubble as a natural phenomenon.

Bitcoin, like Punk certainly isn't dead.

Bitcoin sounded and looked like the sex pistols a year ago, now it sounds and looks like Green Day.

Oh wow thanks HN, being down voted to oblivion for asking a question, nice one thanks!

If the NSA is all knowing as everybody seems to think, why aren't all criminals in jail by now?

A bit like what Babylon 5 called "mass drivers".