Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.