In Michael Crichton's book Timeline, a quantum computer is used to scan a person's molecules and reconstruct then in a parallel universe in which it...
But those people who have two sons will have two sons of the same surname. My guess is that the only way to add surnames is through immigration. That...
In the words of Robert J. Sawyer, a self-aware robot would be no more constrained by the Laws of Robotics than you are by the Ten Commandments.
The people 50,000 years ago were just like hunter-gatherer tribes that exist today. I'm not sure why you think they didn't have any morality. If you...
I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't clear on what I meant by intelligence. What I meant was intelligence on the order of a dog or a cat. I don't know if it's...
"What's wrong with science being profitable?" "Nothing, as long is your motive is to search for truth, which is what the pursuit of science is all...
Is it possible to duplicate the cerebral cortex in a robot? If not, we will have robots that are intelligent but not self-aware. If so, then all it...
So you believe in the self-preservation theory? Well, in that case, I have a question. If an old man visits me and tells me how to build a time...
What makes you think murder is even good when done in war? Murder is murder, any way you look at it.
I'm all for anything (within reason; no Holocaust allowed) that makes our species more intelligent. We need it.
Back to the Future is my favorite. Then, in no particular order, Contact, Planet of the Apes, Terminator (both of them), the Matrix, Galaxy Quest (I...
The whole UFO thing doesn't make sense to me. Even at the speed of light, it would take years to get here. And for what? To mutilate livestock and...
There's more. One of their skulls has actually been found. Go to http://www.starchildproject.com/ to read all about it. Assuming that the human...
Contrary to popular belief, it was not an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. It was a supernova, 880 light-years away ((Astronomical Journal, v.77,...
I think Jesus was a philosopher, just like Gandhi or Confucius. I also think (here's where it gets weird) that Jesus died in Japan. In Herai (which...
I believe in both creation and evolution, but I consider myself an evolutionist. Let me explain: If the energy of the Big Bang were changed even by...
I believe very strongly in evolution. However, I do think our universe was created by a greater being. Everything is too orderly to have arisen at...
I have an answer. God exists, but has not interfered with the universe since everything was created, sort of like Star Trek's prime directive. This...
I think our universe is the surface of a 4-D sphere, just as our 2-D world is actually a 3-D sphere.
That's not true; my mom's IQ is 20 points lower than mine, and we get along great.
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