CGI is neat, but it will never have the charm of practical effects. CGI has ceased to wow me - you can do anything with it. You wanna stun me? Show me a way-cool special effect and then show that it ain't CGI! Like BB-8 in the new Star Wars trilogy.
We should have returned to La Lune years ago! We should have had a permanent moon base by now - heck, we should have had one by the end of the 20th century.
Some may fear that they will grow up to be more dangerous hackers. But maybe they'll be smart enough to figure out a way to free China from Communism. Remember, they're just babies - a lot of unforeseen consequences could show up later.
Eventually they will as Sol gets hotter. But that won't happen for a long, long time. By then the Minnesota Vikings will have won at least one Super Bowl.
Maybe the asteroid by itself wouldn't have done in the non-avian dinosaurs (birds are actually dinosaurs - so your pet cockatiel is a second cousin to Blue!). Maybe the eruptions by themselves would not have been enough. But the one-two punch was enough to cause the K-T extinction.
Reminds me of a story my grandmother told me. She was the member of a prestigious town and country club for many, many years. Once, in the days before MLK and the civil rights movement, a black man came into the club as the guest of a member, and was told he had to leave. The next night, he came back but with a towel wrapped around his head to suggest that he was a foreigner. He had no problems then. Thus, blacks from "around here" were not acceptable, but foreign ones were. WTF?
Sometimes it seems as though certain people thought "1984" was a manual on leadership, not a cautionary tale. Unfortunately, so much of it is germane to the USA now!