Sad but true.

Kind of cool, but also a bit hoax-ish, me thinks.

Yeah, funny, as I said.

It's funny how you assume stuff you don't know to have something to shoot down.

How does that shit-finding saint of yours get along with your guardian angel?

The best group love story in SF is definitely Philip José Farmer's Image of the Beast.

All self-inflicted, clearly. Those crazy middle-ages border-liners.

"connecting the Earth to the moon via space elevator "

Someone needs to spank my dictionary with an anatomy textbook:

Umm... what?

You could call Catwoman "Unwatchable Super Ridiculous Abomination" and it would still dramatically disappoint expectation.

Also, that kind of people don't need typos to have their credibility strained.

I totally agree.

Most people uphold their convictions only as long as it is the well respected thing to do in their social environment. I really think that in order to overcome the current state of things societies will have to develop an atmosphere that clearly promotes rational thought and a fact-based mindset and punishes…

One day people will look back and be flabbergasted for how incredibly long our societies were enthralled by all kinds of superstitious thinking.

Well, the principle of mediocrity would be a reason, if only a minor one.

Actually chances are that his kids will be much more like him than like you or me, which also could be called 'similar to him'.

"This world has plenty of us already."

"Honey, do you know where I put my space-time building blocks?" "Yes, I put them in the fridge." "Oh shit!"

It is number of detectable civilizations at a given time.