Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.