@IamIranon On the other hand, it's painfully evident that we can't follow anyone back to their home(s) and be a threat to them, either. What would they have to lose...?

Well...it's one of those no in-between things. Either you'll get it and groan, or you'll miss it completely...

Depressurizing an entire spaceship interior may not be possible or practical. (even if you're in a suit, a lot of your stuff may not tolerate vacuum exposure, either)

Actually, I just want us to have the humility to stop having things like 'Miss Universe' pageants.

"Life" does not equal "intelligent life".

I agree (especially as I also have a friend who was laid off from her job, partly [but not completely] due to the end of Constellation, at the Johnson Space Center). However, the Chinese aren't thinking space private enterprise, either.

"A moon base... again... why? It's certainly more do-able, and less dangerous to astronauts, but frankly people are dying down here. Sure, if we stopped the nonsensical wars and bridges to nowhere we could probably afford a moon base, but what about curing cancer? Alzheimers?"

And I can stand a mile or a megaparsec from you, and say the same thing.

"After some observation, some debate, and a lot of thinking, they came up with a reason for this. The universe was expanding. "

I agree to the extent that any invasions would more likely be for philosophical / religious / social reasons, than over physical resources that are indeed more plentiful and conflict-free, elsewhere...

Yeah. Damn, I miss Omaha...

Yep. After all, Viagara and Rogaine fell out of research on blood-pressure drugs...

As George Carlin once said of a male dog's ability to turn their heads far around enough to, uh, lick themselves...

More or less in agreement there...

"Love, strange love a star-woman teaches..."

"You knocked my block off!!"

Maybe, I don't know. But liquid nitrogen is produced fairly efficiently and inexpensively all the time for industrial purposes, anyway. It's a natural component of the atmosphere that's condensed out of it, and ultimately returns to it.

I'd rather be frozen, yes...but not quite like that.