One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light.

A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

People think I'm a Simpsons character.