Creating artificial gravity is a little more complicated than just making a craft spin, you need a couter weight extended from the craft. Keep in...
I certainly hope that the fate of the human race will never be in the hands of Keanu Reeves.
Love is dead. Love is merely a perversion of mankind's primordial drive to reproduce. Disease and the need for protection in prehistoric times drove...
I would recommend Jung's "Answer to Job" essays for anyone curious about the infallibility of God from an intellectual standpoint using the book of...
I guess you can look at it two ways: humankind is still a killer and is able to ignore, for the most part, his dark urges, or we have evolved out of...
So my opinion will not be automatically dismissed, I am fascinated by all faiths and religions but owe allegeance to none. I do not consider myself...
Check out my "The problem with religion and atheism thread". The bible didn't kill anybody, people did because its in our nature, as much a part of...
Humans are killers. We are animals. This is neither good nor evil, it is merely the law of nature. As a species masters its world, and hopefully...
The problem with religion is that it has set a precedent of dividing humanity, causing wars and other unpleasantries, and in Western culture stifling...
I posted some of this in "Pseudoscience" so my apologies to anyone who has alread heard this. NASA is in a constant battle for funding, political...
I posted a "wormhole" or "warp" machine suggested in a theoretical physics book I finished a few weeks ago somewhere else on this forum. Since I...
if a truly advance, starfaring species where to come to our solar system I doubt that Earth would be the great prize. The asteroid belt, rich in...
To be a God does not nessasarily mean total power or knowledge, think of the numerous Gods of various mythologies or even passages like this from the...
Star Trek has always refered to our current society by metaphor, some obvious and some rather subtle. Typically sexuality is not dealt with heavily,...
Nanotech is nearly a fountain of youth, Ponce de Leon would be impressed. I have only watched TOS, TNG, the new series(which I think is the most...
Asimov was in many ways an originator, we often forget that the "Foundation" series was truly ground-breaking in its scope for the early 1940s when...
I am curious to see what the members positions on higher lifeforms might be-I'm talking about purely theoretical entities that are nearly omniscient...
If the moon landing was a hoax why not continue the hoaxing and fake a Mars landing, or an entire colony for that matter? It could be done with...
I will be suprised if we will see any extraterrestrial, orbital structures with artificial gravity any time in the near future until we learn much...
This thread is not about my religious beliefs, which are entirely irrelevant to this discussion. I am an aherent to no religion in the traditional...
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