For half a semester at each one.

First - your comment seems to imply that you consider *yourself a ‘prominent thinker’, since you claim your statement (made without any substantiating evidence of your qualifications) is as valid as Hawking’s. Second - your comment provides no explanation of the mechanism behind your conclusions. So, yea. You provide…

Human exploration *is necessary, sorry. The real goal of space travel is, after all, to spread humankind around the solar system (at least as a first step) so that a dino-killer doesn’t end the whole race. For that reason, if for *no other, we must find a way to side-step our “storage requirements”. Assuming, of…

Since it’s been demonstrated scientifically that reality does *not exist independent of consciousness, does that mean Objectivists will finally go away now? Objectivism by definition is selfishness, self-interest above all - and if we are *all to coexist on this one small outpost in the void, we must all look out for…