But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.