I would rather have a person who has a complete lack of morals who consciously chooses to be honorable and just in a position of power, than to have someone with a flexible set of morals who can be manipulated into doing the wrong thing because they believe it is right. And I'll take both over someone who has blind…

I'd like to say I'm surprised. But I'm not. And we only have their word that they stopped. How many people have been blasted, boiled, flayed, vivisected and tortured simply so that they can tell what makes the average person tick and how to train their soldiers to break a people quickly? No government, no power…

Dome 2288.

I look at the above and ask, why couldn't the earth hold 107 billion people at once? (Please note I'm not saying SUPPORT 107 billion, just hold.) It actually could "hold" about 10 times that number, assuming every solid surface on the earth contained a city 10-20 levels deep. Even more if the city could cover the…

Please note I'm not disagreeing with you, but much of what we think we know now are simulations that take what we currently know about the universe and apply it to the model. We are making assumptions about certain things that, while they must be true on average, may not be entirely true in every specific case. One…

I must side with others, if you want to do thrust right, you have to go with the Saturn V's F-1's. Strap five of those on a modern rocket with modern technology behind it, and then you have a launch system capable of delivering 3 Citizens of Earth to Mars, and a whole bunch more in addition to the Moon. For the sake…

"What you see here is justice." A faceless, disconnected voice said off to the side as they observed the monitor in front of them, a brain collected in what appeared to be a dill-pickle jar, hooked up to electrodes and various wires and plugs. One eye, at least that was all that was visible, darting to and fro as…

Well, if their theory is correct, either in part or in whole, then detecting and sensing gravitational waves that are "bleeding" through from an outside brane into our own would be interesting. There would "have to be" a connection point - a place where the structure of our brane was weak enough and close enough to a…

Better yet would be a reasonable copyright law that allows an inventive individual to profit off of a concept without tying that concept to 100 years of corporate intrigue. The free flow of information should be a priority, but not at the cost of inventive people who may have based their ideas off of the giants of…

Any initiative that takes longer than two election terms is unlikely to be implemented. Any initiative that spans 2-3 decades is a promise to launder money for something else.

"What problem? There's a finite amount of the stuff, we do know where pretty much all of it landed/impacted (virtually all on the near side)...and it would take five minutes of analysis to know that something was made in a US or Soviet/Russian manufacturing plant"

Stuff that was sent in the 60's and 70's - some of it was lost because the paperwork tracking it was lost. Mostly on the russian side of things. And you're not thinking back in time far enough to recognize that anything that wasn't on a ballistic near-earth orbit was forgotten about sooner rather than later. …

Problem is there's all sort of artificial junk already on the moon. And a lot of it we don't know about because the russians lost so many probes. They followed their usual MO - if you can't make something great, make something good and make up for the greatness with numbers. There are at least 10 Venera probes…

Its not so much the bible or any of its forms I have an issue with, its the fact that people refuse to allow any daylight into any of the cracks that appear. Some go as far as to say that the "Bible" is the word of God as it came from God. That removes the human context from the words in the book and allows…

Are we so certain that the men who wrote the books upon which we place our faith did not omit anything and did not lie? That all the translations have been 100% correct, and that there is no possibility for error?

You give this as a drug/gene therapy to people. They are sitting with one half of a protein triggered poison in each and every one of their cells. You deliver a high dosage of a triggering protein. Slowly and painfully you end up with a dead person. Mass cell death releases further toxins that can destroy the…

Ok. Am I the only one bothered by the fact that he's using an engineered protein trigger to cause cell death? If its tripped by a virus, it can be tripped by an artificial protein designed specifically to trigger it.

I'm just saying that there is a possible method of changing martian gravity, in response to your statement "...because no amount of terraforming can change the Martian gravity field." Your assertion that it is easier to re-engineer humans is probably spot-on accurate. But the question becomes a) Will humans accept…

Actually, terraforming CAN change the martian gravity. You forget, all worlds are constructed, in part or in whole, by the collision of other bodies to form more MASSIVE worlds. Sometimes collisions can shatter a world and remove mass, but more often the process increases planetary mass. A planet's mass determines…

I would rather have intelligent collations formed (even if they are composed of small minorities) than to have one overarching "majority" that does the equivalent of "wagging the dog". Their studies also ignore the concept that modern society contains composite entities that serve as both individual and group in our…