All I can say is, hell yes. If I can still get my delicious meaty fix without having to butcher some poor animal for it, count me in. Anything that renders humanity less 'natural' is a good thing in my books.

@gmuslera: They should have similar chemical compositions to the Sun, though. Could be interesting and informative to see what sort of planets may have formed around them.

@Ivriniel: Doesn't really matter about the biosphere. Once we're out of the picture things'll bounce back. Different, but still here.

@Azures: The mass effect always seemed more like Higgs manipulation than Dark Energy trickery to me, but I guess they hadda use the Dark Energy buzzword... XD

@corpore-metal: Aw man, I was hoping for eezo, too. :(

Now I have to ask, since the Higgs field couples to the electroweak field, does that imply that it might be possible to manipulate mass via electromagnetism?

@wcanyon: The way I understand it (and this is a fairly layman-level understanding) is that the forces are mediated by 'virtual' forms of the carrier particles, eg. an electric field is made up of virtual photons, which can't really be detected as particles. In order to become 'real' particles, ones we can directly…

@Clint Coady: It's pretty unlikely that we'll ever solve all of our problems here on Earth, so by your reasoning we should never, ever explore space. Then again, by your reasoning we shouldn't have luxuries either, until we've solved all the Earth's problems.

@wcanyon: Because the Higgs boson is the particle associated with the Higgs field; the field is what gives things mass, the particles only crop up at high energies.

@tobylane: All matter, on small-enough scales, shows wave/particle duality, equivalent to a photon with the same energy as the particle-in-question's rest mass. :)

@Chip Skylark of Space: Draining coffee out of my keyboard now... XD

@AcceleratedDragon: The smooth, light blue shelf surrounding Australia? :)

@Briareosdx: " as they basically exist to kill furries."

@gmcannon: The more modern antidepressants are noticeably milder in terms of this particular side effect than the horror story that is, say, Paxil. Still a concern though, especially during the first few weeks. XD

@pezeveng319: Finish your car in phase-conjugate mirrors?

@funchefchick: The shakycam in Bourne 3 actually turned the movie into a comedy for me. I burst out laughing with the first 30 seconds with the pan-then-zoom onto the office nameplate, then it all went downhill from there. XD

Shaky-cam is for directors who can't direct action. Shaky-cam is never good.

@Chip Overclock: I remember one inventor back in the day had the brilliant idea of putting opposite polarizing filters on car windshields and headlights, so that oncoming traffic wouldn't blind drivers at night. It never did catch on, though, which I think was kinda too bad.

@Roklimber: Not everyone can, apparently, or at least it's very faint for some. I've always had best luck just at or after sunset on a clear, dry day (as water vapor in the air scatters light too much), looking up at the zenith and rotating my head side-to-side.

@Roklimber: Interestingly enough, you can actually differentiate between linearly and circularly-polarized light via Haidinger's Brush, and even tell the direction of circular polarization.