Actually he can scour the earth clean of life in about the time it takes him to circle the globe a few times and change the direction of rotation. In other words, about 30 seconds. =)

Because we are now a plutocracy, and money needs to be protected from the populace. Also because “cop” is one of the few jobs returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan have been able to find reliably. Essentially these are young people who grew up in the armed forces and now don’t really understand the difference…

Because the empire is collapsing.

On the subject of the hatred of Superman, well, it's not really that surprising is it?

Ripley takes no guff from nobody.

Biological immortality does have a specific definition.

There's a robot spamming you with a denialist talking point, would you mind dismissing that robot?

God of the gaps. It's not scientific to say that we don't understand this, therefore, soul or something. That's just labeling a receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

What the heck is dark matter or dark energy?

Safe, effective, and affordable human reproduction without pregnancy. Uterine replicators, basically. Will we have them eventually?

I'd like for it to be possible to take the sequence of a protein and predict its structure. I think its not going to be the sort of thing that we'll ever be 100% on, since there is always the possibility of some modifications going on to the real protein that scientists wouldn't know till they looked for it, but I…