Sarcasm-ing!

Hm? I was not saying fields of science are not dominated by men. I was merely taking issue with the implication that the "attitude of hierarchy" you described is related directly to the fact that the field is dominated by men, implying that such attitudes would not exist in fields dominated by women...

As opposed to fields of employment dominated by women, where everyone is always nice and friendly to each other. :P

Well, obviously you'd only be able to *semi*-kill anyone with a gun like that.

I'm sorry, but I just find it hard to believe that all the female scenes just *happened* to be in the one scene that got cut, and that it was all a total coincidence that had nothing to do with gender... Especially since there were several female pilots. Why would they all be in the same scene, doing the same run? Was…

In theory, all employers are perfect rational agents who make all their hiring decisions using cold, rational cost-benefit analysis.

I predict that in 2122 a futuristic science blog will publish an article mocking this list of predictions. :P Their jumpsuit-clad cyber-readers will laugh at our silliness, and complain about how they want their four-hour-breath-holding-pills already. The list needs more wacky drawings in the style of those…

Wow, that uniform looks really regular-army. Strong dislike. Starfleet is supposed to be "mildly military" at worst, to use a TvTropes term. Captain Kirk as a Space Marine just doesn't work for me.

Space, as Douglas Adams once said, is big.

It's obvious, then: To ensure that there are no signs of humanity on this planet, and thus save ourselves from alien invaders, we must simply kill ourselves off. This will guarantee no further traces of our civilization, and will make it utterly impossible for ET to eat us. :P

It's a cookbook! IT'S A COOKBOOK!

It's likewise unlikely that someone out there will randomly stumble on one of our probes in the boundless emptiness of space, as the OP worries...

I don't think the article implied that the original would be destroyed or harmed in any way...

Solar sailing has already been demonstrated in 2010 by Japan's IKAROS mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS

You've gloriously succeeded at making me read that comment in Comic Book Guy's voice. :P Kudos.

Sincerely, I only studied psychology on the undergrad level. The evo-psych studies I had to read through annoyed me to no end...

I still find it depressing that in medical research, you have to figure out how something works *after* you invent it. O_o

"... her assumption that a science that examined male-female differences (among other things) was also prescribing and exaggerating these differences."

With three hundred millenia separating the two events, did perhaps too much time pass for a "one-two punch"? By some measures that may not be a lot of time, but it's enough time for species to evolve, for ecosystems and climates to radically change, etc. Wouldn't that be enough time for dinosaurs to adapt to whatever…

I wouldn't be too hard on them. A hen was laying eggs with actual writing on them, in an age when superstition was rampant and people felt that the world was full of mystery and miracles. And the actual explanation wasn't exactly what you'd call... intuitive. I'd sooner question the sobriety of the pranksters…