Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

What's up with chicks and science?

I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter of people understanding how that economic driver is revealed with healthy investments on the space frontier.

It's my duty to enlighten people.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science, which marches on and makes discoveries in those gaps, ultimately closing gaps.

'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, "I've got this message I want share with the public," and it's three-and-a-half minutes long. That's not it. If your message is only three-and-a-half minutes long, then we got nothing else to talk about. Because life is more complex than three-and-a-half minutes.