So you expect him to solve human nature? Dream on. He’s brilliant, but he’s human too. Besides, he’s already told you (us) that the only way to insure humanity survives is to get some of us off this planet. And even that doesn’t provide a guarantee. It just gives us a better chance.

First, I’m not going to argue on taking care of the planet. You are spot on. As for the stars, yes we will take them with enough mass, time and will.

But he doesn’t have the solutions. No one does. That’s the problem.

C’mon Ice Pirates!

For context. Space telescopes are labelled as such, the rest are ground-based.

Your lack of rhythm disturbs me.

Low level radioactive waste is not a large issue. Some low level wastes are even approved to be thrown in the regular trash. The steel and concrete are pretty damn stable so you just leave in place till the radiation levels drop a bit and then chuck em. They have tiny amounts of radiation compared to the waste fuel.…

It means engaging in sexual activity without consent. I mean, there are multiple instances where Leia gives a clear, unambiguous signal that she is not interested in physical intimacy with Han—saying things like, “Stop that,” and “I’d rather kiss a wookie”—and Han responds each time by ignoring the refusals and…

If it’s defensible, then people should defend it. So far most folk just keep saying “You’re wrong” without engaging with anything I said. That doesn’t speak well for its status as something whose flaws can be defended.

“So what on Earth are they?”

Brienne of Darth.

All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed! Casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look, you’re a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia - this is a government contract, which means all sorts of…

Do you think the average stormtrooper knows how to install a toilet main?

Bran will control a dragon that Zombie Jon Snow flies on next to Dany as they lay waste to the White Walkers, all set to an Iron Maiden soundtrack.

Oh, I know. I know some lovely, well informed, well educated Americans. I have been fortunate enough to travel in the US and have found much to admire within the culture. This idea that the UK is under threat from Muslim immigration seems to assume that our culture is fragile, where it is quite the opposite. I am a…

I was a young adult in the '60s; I was there. We stopped because it was never about exploring the moon; it was only ever about beating the Russians. At anything. They kept telling everyone that communism was better than capitalism, then doing amazing things like Sputnik and Gagarin's epic flight. The space race was…