If the NASA warp technology works, it might take a couple of month to get there, or less, depending on how fast the warp drive is. The bonus is a lack of relativistic effects. In other words, a couple of months at warp would also be a couple of months here at home, a la Star Trek.

come on, that's just 3.68 parsecs. What's your problem, impatient?

There might not be life out there because of God?

We like to think of science as being welcoming, but try talking to a few scientists who want to submit fringe theories to the mainstream. Many of them get shut down. While some are certainly wrong, others take years or many decades to be proven true. Science is not as welcoming as most think. With that being said,…

OK, so creationism. Oh no, wait, that's impossible.

That's actually only one form of determinism, among several. It doesn't take invoking a higher being to believe that determinism, hard, soft, or otherwise, has a hand in everything from the largest structures of the universe, every hair on your body, or the constituent bits that make up the matter and energy which…

They tried to protest a military funeral near where I live. It didn't work. There were so many people there to protest WBC and protect the family that they didn't even get close. In the end, they were literally run out of town by the police. Well, the police escorted them out of town for "their protection" while…

Good for you! I once saw my father return a couple of dollars to Walmart after being given incorrect change. My dad didn't discover the mistake until we arrived home. The thing is, we lived in the country, and we were poor farmers who lived some distance from Walmart. We typically only went in to town once or…

I'm going to copywrite Space Jarhead. Don't even think of using it to describe any kind of soldier in space. I'll be on you like birds on Dikembe Mutombo.

I have it on good authority that one of the aliens was still alive, and they forced it to give away bits of technology, bit by bit. My source says that Velcro, invented in 1948, was the last major technology our little gray friend gave us. RIP

It's actually quite funny that we still argue about whether life exists elsewhere in the vast expanse of the universe.

Unless the universe itself is self-aware. After all, it just told the good doctor to not listen to you and that it does care. That's worth something in the form of entertainment.

Why and how does it destroy the concept of God? I'm not trolling. I've just never seen the "life elsewhere in the universe" argument used to destroy the concept of God. I am open minded to a well thought out postulate.

1 Good Reason Why There Might Not Be Life on Other Planets.

Is it a coincidence that the supposed Roswell crash occurred the summer of 1947 and the transistor was invented the winter of 1947?

The knife strapped to the leg sends this one over the top.

Good point! The sooner we spread our DNA across the galaxy, the better for us as a species.

Sure, outlaw guns. Then, if you do manage to eradicate all known firearms, people will kill people with swords and knives. Then, you can go on a rant about how we should outlaw swords and knives. Then, when all swords and knives are eradicated, people will start killing people by throwing rocks at heads. Then, you…

What a terrific article! What you say about homeotics makes me think of a bony prominence just to the left of my xyphoid process which appeared a couple years ago. It seems to be slowly growing, but of no other real significance, otherwise. It's been scanned and looked at by my bone cancer doctor, and dismissed as…

I remember a concept being proposed a long time ago when it came to sending people on long missions like this. The idea is that we use the best technology we have to send the fastest craft we have to a particular star. If it takes 100,000 years, then that's what it takes. Put them in some sort of suspended…