There is only one race, humanity. The sooner people realise that fact the better. Everything else is just genetic make-up. Move on with your lives.

Good list,

This is why Europa missions shouldn't delay Mars Sample Return or humans to Mars in the 2030's.

My vote is for Wyatt.

I just created these three pieces based on Red Mars after hearing that it is being adapted into a series.

Perfect. This guy should have been the one to create the new season for Cosmos. KSR come alive, he should be involved with the production of Red Mars in some capacity.

Not sure if you're serious. We know for certain Mars has a great quantity of water in the polar caps and its soil. Studies from Curiosity prove past habitable environments. Nasa studies of data from the Phoenix lander have suggested that there were habitable environments on Mars as recently as tens of thousands of…

Everything visual they've shown here is visually unappealing. Whatever one might say about Avatar, at least it had some 'cool shit', some great designs (some of those creatures are among the best ever designed) and moments of awe.

The love aspect didn't bother me at all. I read it as Hathway's characters trusting the less promising report of someone she loves rather than a more promising report from someone she doesn't. Call it intuition, call it common sense, call it love, either way she was right and it doesn't require metaphysics to explain…

Whether utopia or dystopia they often read like fantasies. It's hard to imagine the world heading directly towards either future. I always felt like Kim Stanley Robinson's strikes a nice balance. He shows us humanity facing major challenges in his Mars Trilogy or 2312. The undemocratic, unsustainable transnational…

"Does humanity deserve to survive, after all the harm we've done? This is one of the main issues tackled in a fascinating interview with Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX. published today in Aeon magazine. Musk has a pretty eloquent answer."

Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. Blue Mars left me waiting to see what happened next, what would the terraforming of Venus be like, what happened to the interstellar missions like the one Jackie Boone joined. Fortunately KSR gave a glimpse in 2312, and his next book Aurora is supposed to go even further following…

The magic recipe would seem to be a combination of public, international, and private funding. Even though I'm not a huge fan of the Asteroid Retrieval mission it would at least be an opportunity to use public funding to develop some of the technologies needed to redirect asteroids. Once an Asteroid was put into orbit…

Has anyone else read this book?

Luke = new Vader?

Loved it, secondish only to Dawn of Planet of the Apes this summer.

I loved Ninja Turtles as a kid, just loved them. I had all the toys, watched all the tv shows and movies, collected comic books, I even had their sewer house and pizza shooting car. I still have to ask why? the obvious answer is money. If the Facebook Newfeed jizzfest is any indication it could be the worst movie of…

I fear that the only 'lesson 'Hollywood will take away is that there needs to be more superhero movies. How many times can we watch the same movie, invincible hero faces minor challenges before defeating the villain. Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. I would love to see a super hero movie where the hero actually needs…

I don't disagree at all, I'm just interested to hear more additional opinions on whether or not these new technologies are possible, and if so what the potential barriers are. For such 2-3 technologies that would be such breakthroughs it seems worthwhile to investigate further.

Between the warp drive news of the past year, the Q-thruster tests (decades or less to the nearest star systems) and these new Emdrive tests, Nasa's Advanced Propulsion Team Lead Harold White is becoming something of a controversial figure.