It’s Valentine’s Day in two days. If you haven’t bought your loved one something better than a box of supermarket chocolates, you’re hooped. Yeah, sure, the economy’s bad, Christmas knocked the wind out of you, you were on NASA’s moon program team and your budget was cut, blah blah blah…

When my generation was young, we were still being told that extraterrestrial life “probably” didn’t exist. This idiotic assertion was based on “lack of evidence.” If a tree falls in the forest, yadda yadda…

Absolutely guaranteed drop-dead-end-of-the-world predictions in the last 100 years…

The antiquated concept of journalistic integrity aside, where are the editorial policies for these publications? Scientific evidence and grassroots anecdotes seem to have equal weight in veracity nowadays. These publishers should take an editorial stand…

… why do old people and old furniture smell the same? What’s half a pair of pants called? What’re falls? If they’re made outa plastic, wire they called “glasses?” Why don’t NASA count up insteada counting down, since that’s where they’re going anyway? …

It once seemed there were no new ideas out there. Or at least very few new ideas, and most of them came out of NASA research, so we were told. (It turns out that NASA stole all of its ideas from “Star Trek.”) But that perception came about due to the extreme lack of instant [...]