Fun fact! He lost the popular vote in an election that was meddled with by the US’s long-time antagonist, Russia. To call the process “democratic” is to besmirch the concept of democracy.

Agree completely. My child has ADHD. She’s also incredible smart and passionate. We’ve certainly created a system for people with differences to fail, quite possibly failing to nurture gifts that should be nurtured. That’s become very clear to me in these eight years of her life so far.

I have ADHD. Perhaps the question should be instead: Why are so many people forced into a life of crime? And how many of those people are truly guilty of the crimes they are being punished for - and how many of them are simply being boxed into the shape that society has stamped out for them? These are people whom the…

If you can fold space-time. you can fold space-time. You can fold space-time where and when you want to fold space time with a level of mastery and the appropriate energy systems.

Can’t disregard ANYTHING. It’s nice to dream a little.

Well, first you’re constructing your home from a megastructure. Most of those things won’t penetrate such a construct. Anything in the EM spectrum is just energy to be harvested to such a civilization. Meteors... that can be seen coming a long way off and structural elements moved or the rock just captured or…

Nobody can help J.J. Abrams but J.J. Abrams. As long as hope is one of those perphery things below the importance of Apple Stores, nostalgia and lens flares... I’m afraid nuTrek will continue to be what it is: A mildly entertaining, occasionally fun romp through what could have been an original science fiction…

Really I think we’re seeing a parasitic action on a star that is changing its luminance properties. This is something we’ve never seen in science and why we look up at the sky in the first place. This is just a never-before catalogued natural phenonomon and that makes it really interesting! Also inspiring for those…

What follows is speculation and opinion (YMMV):

I’m just having fun. I am a person who believes very strongly that we need to sometimes imagine a bit more than what is actually there so that we can get excited about possibilities and maybe find a path of research that did not exist before.

Driveways are very short access roads between a garage and a street. Quite literally, the path upon which a car is “driven” to reach a road or a garage.Fun fact, they are still considered roadways (but are private), and while you can’t be ticketed for exceeding the speed limit posted by the owner of the driveway, you…

What this article also had me thinking was that this is the only somewhat realistic way to achieve FTLT, by building a structure that can siphon off massive amounts of energy from a star to fuel the absolutely absurd amounts of energy required to warp space and achieve FTLT for any meaningful distances. I imagine it…

So let me see if I got this right, you think an alien race maybe draining the stars energy to restabilize it as a different classification in order to keep it from dying so “quickly”, and give it a much longer life?

As a Project Server administrator, I guffawed loudly. And cried a little.

The power to change the world doesn’t come from statesmen or leaders. It is not the domain of the rich, or the command of the pious. Like all things... making the world a better place involves something far different.

Ring stations like the halos are quite possible. Just not a that scale yet... with the proper material science you do not need a hub/spoke model. And the kinds of things that lead to the Master Chief... aren’t really that far away either.

There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. ...…

Oooh...I sure hope when we reach Kardashev II we have something better than Windows to run our civilization on

The Blitzball Tournament however is still on

Don’t worry about resources. They’re getting the aliens in the next star system to pay for it.