Missing in all the scifimasturbation are ethicists, biomimicry engineers, culture creatives, biophiles, artists and systems-thinkers to balance out the reductionist, ego-driven frankenscience and its unintended yet predictable dystopic consequences on people, plants and the planet.

Priorities = fucked.

Pitch black baby with wave platinum blonde hair and blue eyes here we come.

I doubt it would be available only to the very wealthy, but the poor sure as hell won’t be able to afford it. How else would they if they didn’t have money? Short of a full on socialized economy or the government footing the bill, it’s just not going to happen because that’s not how capitalism works.

We need to have a worldwide “We’ve Reached the Space Age” party if that warp drive becomes a reality!!

My conservative little cousin says he will move to Canada if Hill wins. I was like, dude, really? Conservative bastion of misogyny, Canada?

I highly doubt the cops came by and ticketed her without some sort of bias against her. Nobody short of health code inspectors drives by, sees a lady feeding the homeless, and instantly goes “oh, I bet she doesn’t have her permits, let’s go check on that!” Police are well versed in the law, sure, but probably don’t…

It depends on what you consider technology to be honest. Most of the other species in the homo genus were as smart or smarter than humans (or at least developed faster technologically), so if you consider fairly complex tool making and structure building to be technology then it would be more than one. However, if you…

I mean, I think it has to do with the idea that if your pain doesn’t have a physical cause, it’s not real. If your pain has a psychological cause, rather than a physical one, I think a lot of people take that to mean that the pain is all in the sufferer’s head—that they’re essentially making it up.

What’s really interesting is how scientists are now considering the possibility that diseases such as depression and even schizophrenia could have viral origins. Slowly but surely the medical field is realising that mental and physical illness is one and the same, but the stigma with mental illness is slowing that…

Antidepressants are used in treatment of chronic pain and GI issues, that knowledge sometimes helps people to feel more open to trying them. Also we’re starting to uncover evidence that fibromyalgia falls under the umbrella of pathos we don’t understand but that do have a biological basis.

And we even know that serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine play a role in many mental illnesses, and also are key neurotransmitters in inhibiting pain in a normally functioning nervous system. Hence why depression can physically make you hurt, and why some antidepressants are used in treating all kinds of chronic…

It’s really difficult. My anxiety manifests with a LOT of physical symptoms. I’ve made four ER trips in the past five years with symptoms that felt real enough to me but were all likely caused by my anxiety. I am now working with my doctor and taking medication, but it’s so hard to distinguish when you’re in the thick…

I agree, even if the cause is mental, aren’t the effect still actually physical? All pain, sound, vision, etc. is actually produced by your brain. The schizophrenic does actually hear the voices because they come from the part of the brain that processes sound.

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia 25 years ago by a neurologist. But because 75% of diagnosed cases are of women, there are a lot of doctors who claim it’s not real.

*Uh...what are you doing?

As tall as mountains appear to us, relative to the Earth as a whole, they are nothing. If you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a polished billiard ball, the Earth would be the smoother of the two.

I didn't say anything about debris. Please look at the rest of this thread. This topic has become exceedingly tedious for me. I'll summarize one more time:

1) It is against the laws of the universe for anything with mass to ever beat a light beam in a race. It is not allowed. It cannot be done. Any technology…

Yes, I understand. My point is that this technology achieves "faster than light travel" by moving everything, including light, with the same trick...therefore nothing need ever exceed the speed of light. If a ship arrives at Proxima Centauri in weeks, clearly it "traveled" faster than light, even though it didn't…