Interesting. But how would this calculation look if we assumed that the traveler used the highly hypothetical Alcubierre Warp Drive to preform the same feat?

I'd like to point out that after WWII, most European countries have dial down Patriotism as it's little-brother Nationalism was seen as one of the basis causes Nazi's.

This brings up an interesting (and possibly quite disturbing) question: If i were to copy my liver or muscle tissue, cook it and then eat it, would it be cannibalism?

A pleasure to read, with a perfect balance between simplicity and depth. More io9 articles should be like this. ^_^

True.

But this time, it's Thor Cancer! *cut to scene of war being fought with weirdly short hammers in "300" style slow-motion*

Even more importantly, make sure you haven't eaten Brazil nuts or are carrying any of them around, as they're exactly radioactive enough to trip a radiation alarm (but thankfully not enough to hurt people).

I just imagine the sword going: "DUDE! Occupado, god dammit!"

Both Wayland and Weyland are modern rendering of the Old English name Wieland/Wēland from the Norse Wölundr/Velentr. Both the "a" and "e" spelling is equally correct and pronounced exactly the same (it's kinda like how gray can be written both with a "a" or an "e"). ^_^

I'm casting my vote for Gram. It's the sword that inspired the myth of Excalibur, forged by Wayland the Smith (where Wayland-Yutani from Aliens gets half it's name from), placed in the tree Barnstokkr by Odin for only a true king to pull out, the only weapon that could harm the Dragon Fafnir (it killed him) and then…

I'm with Corpore Metal on this, as the term "Singularity" was chosen as an analogy to the impossibility of knowing what lies beyond the singularity at the center of black whole, so this would detail a singular event (or point in time) where no human, science, math or even fiction can predict what lies beyond.

If SWAT or the FBI kicked down my door, i wouldn't choose to shout that i was just researching chemical weapons for my RPG, given that it also means Rocket Propelled Grenade. ^_^

This is one of sciences biggest problems: The difficulty in providing proper analogies or proper wording.

Unholy f*cking shit, the Japanese have been weird no matter the decade. ^_^

So they accidentally killed one of us a few decades ago, and since then we've done nothing but portray them as psychopathic genocidal murder machine, who'll stab us in the back the moment we take our eyes off them. Isn't that kinda how racism (or speciesism in this case) works? (O_O')

Space, the final corporate frontier. These are the voyages of the SpaceShipFortyFour MacEnterprise-Goldman-Sachs. Its five-year mission: to exploit strange new worlds, to seek out new investments and new civilizations to buy, to boldly earn where no man has earned before.

Allow me to present another angle: What if this is another example of seemingly fanciful sci-fi aiming too low?

Holy shit, this article has a lot of fun things to point out. ^_^

Damn you evolution, you've foiled us for the last time! Mark my words, you've made a dangerous enemy, in ruining our most effective snake defense.

While i would nominate Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, i recently read the book Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto and it completely blew me away. I almost hugged my Roomba after reading it. ^_^