You give humanity too much credit. In less than a century, we won't be able to feed most humans. Wars will be about water and food and land. The UN is already predicting this. So are a multitude of independent "think tanks". Do you think that scientific priority will be about academic progress? I'm not…

I tend to be more amused rather than intrigued by these alien contact scenarios. We can't even truly communicate our thoughts, emotions, intentions with our dogs and cats, heck - we are still debating if animals have souls and if they have deliberate consciousness, and these are "aliens" right on our little blue dot.…

I don't even think that "metal" is the next step. There was an episode in Voyager with the crazy hologram, who goes on a rant about how he is a superior being because he's pure energy and light... I think that's more like it instead of mere "metal".

Drug Abuse Resistance Education - got it. Nope, I'm guessing that's an American initiative. Not from America.

What's D.A.R.E. ? Yes, you are right, in context your comment wasn't how I read it when I replied. Sorry.

An old friend of mine grew up in a household where between the father and mother, a cigarette was always lit. He had chronic nosebleeds, but it was not the smoke. The day he moved out (~19 years old), these stopped within a few days. He tells me that after nearly 4 years of not living home, he had zero (!)…

Oh God, this argument again? Coffee, chocolate, wine, etc...none of these do the sort of damage that your body has to endure with every single puff of those hundreds of poisons you're putting right into your lungs! If you, or your kind who keeps making these sort of immature and uneducated comparisons, would…

No, 360° is a complete arc degree, it would mean you'd be walking around it, returning to the same spot. So it would almost seem like you're stalking it, wanting it - NEEDING IT!

Actually, real life is exactly like that too. It was Goethe who wrote (and I quote) "Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness."

Awww I miss these guys...I wonder if they're still together.

I really like it! I mean it could be fine-tuned, but the concept is oddly appealing!

Haha well ... seeing what I just wrote on a post above, now I feel pissed :P

Seldom do I try to change minds in regards to subjective opinions, but this one I can't let go. To even think that there's one person out there who thinks that TNG is over rated is nearly blasphemous. If you didn't watch it, or didn't like it, that's one thing - but "over rated" can only be deduced if you actually…

Time to get back to basics, and by that I mean Star Trek à la TNG. No alternate universe stuff, no contrived scenarios - no prequels. Maybe picking up from the end of the Dominion Wars - back on a starship, with a crew seeking new life and new civilizations (seeing that Janeway had much to say about civilizations…

I had one, well, two actually - one of the best things I've ever bought. They still work to this day. The Japanese versions made by Sony were incredible. The track editing features were honestly a dream come true - I also had the home component system and that made mixed music so good. Another thing is that these…

And what is the standard model now? What was the standard model before? Whose brain is the "standard" by which our brains are now measured?

Yeah, I'm not keen on saying that his brain was better either. I mean, yes, clearly his brain was better suited to science, and only a specific aspect of science, but let's be clear, not everything the man did was correct, perfect or historic. Hitler was better at genocide, J.S. Bach was better at composing fugues,…

I'll take your word for it... :/

There are 3 things I genuinely regret ever seeing/researching: the Second Sino-Japan War, particularly the atrocities committed by the Japanese; actually googling
"Jeffrey Dahmer victims" for a school paper I once wrote (and stupid me I clicked on images first...) and now the picture with that woman's arm half rotten…

Skyscrapers, human made items on the Moon, cyberspace, cloning, industrial revolution, graphene - geez the list could go on and on. I don't think that size and grandeur is the only qualification as the defining "monument" of civilizations. I mean I think seeing a flying machine that can routinely carry up to 540…