Mars-one is the silliest idea I've heard come out of all the recent space news. For me, it's like Obama's "we've all ready been to the moon.... lets go to Mars" crap. If setting up a colony on Mars is the goal, wouldn't you first want to test the process by say.. setting up a colony on the Moon? At the very least,…

You know that whenever you see one black hole there's bound to be dozens that you're not seeing.. Can never be too safe, I say.

I think it's a great partnership. If NASA utilized SpaceX and other companies to develop rockets or take care of low earth orbit missions it'll open them up for lunar bases and Mars missions and deep space exploration. NASA couldn't do that stuff without SpaceX freeing up their routine deliveries and SpaceX couldn't…

Yeah, I don't know what that's supposed to mean, I guess. Anyone can plan to do something. MarsOne plans on setting up one-way-trip-colonies on Mars. NASA planned to return to the moon by 2020. The Soviet Union planned to beat us to the moon. ..etc..

You know, I hear that it costs them less, but I guess I don't understand where that idea comes from. How is it less expensive for SpaceX? It's the same procedure. As I understand it, NASA commissions these missions from SpaceX. And that's on top of the $400 or $500 million they gave them for the initial start-up…

Man, I hate this attitude, like SpaceX is some kind of super space pioneer company. It's a taxi service, not a space program. Like NASA has lost their edge or something? Look at what NASA started with the Constellation Program, the new heavy lift rocket, the Orion spacecraft, the Altair lunar lander.. I guarantee…

What I find more impressive about this is that 50 years ago NASA had to calculate the math manually with a room full of super smart people. It boggles my mind to think what we could do in space if only we funded it now like we did then.

Although I agree that the dude's attitude sucked, I don't think you should expect a person to read seven full novels before watching a show about the novels. Personally I can never decide. I already started the show, so if I read the books now, it'd ruin the show. I ran into the same problem with The Walking Dead. I…

I thought that one guy on the wall came back as a white walker and Snow killed him. I figured it was a sort of ice zombie ordeal.

Conan was talking about Arnold's book on his show some time this last week and apparently in it Arnold says that he initially didn't want to do the "I'll be back" line. He didn't think it would work or something.

That's just red threat propaganda, I thought the cold war ended decades ago?

"these so-called Chinese singletons have been accused of being over-indulged, lacking in self discipline and having no adaptive capabilities."

Grammatically speaking I'm more bothered by starting a sentence with 'and', which happens repeatedly in this article. Just makes it read like a run-on.

not HIV but full blown AIDS

I just think Superman is a bad character. and it's because of his omnipotence. It makes for bad storytelling if you know the hero never dies or is really hurt ever. Wolverine's character has a similar flaw, there's not really a way to kill him, but they make up for that by giving him a gritty character, and he gets…

I find all that early space race stuff so fascinating. Neither side had any idea what they were doing. They more or less just did a bunch of stuff and waited to see how it turned out. Sometimes it resulted in a "space race 1st" and sometimes it just blew up, or very narrowly avoided disaster. It's hard to imagine how…

It's cool to love science and all that, but does that automatically mean you have to have no respect for other peoples religious beliefs? To be clear, I'm not the least bit religious, but isn't ignorantly chastising a religion the same as ignoring scientific facts?

Wait, did I SAY they were popular in Australia? Or did I say it wasn't as offensive?

Of course this thing looks cartoony, it's a toy. I don't think he's making these next set of movies with 'children' in mind just because the Hobbit was considered a children's book in it's day. And really, how can you look at a damn toy and extrapolate anything about the in-movie designs?

I always thought the difference was that Nazi swastikas went clock-wise, while the buddist/hindu swastika went counter-clockwise. Also, the Nazi symbol is like a square rotated 45 degrees so it sits on a point, while the other symbol sits on an edge.