PETA has had a 1 million dollar reward for lab grown meat for quite a few years.

OK, now try looking to other countries, for example, Brazil. Upwards of 70% of the deforestation in Brazil is to make room for grazing lands, and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of square kilometers in the last 40 years. Seems like if someone can come up with lab grown meat, they might be able to ease up on their torching the rain forest.

Starvation is a production issue! When people can't produce enough food to feed themselves they are forced to import it from those who produce more than they use.

Yes, yes, feeling good about yourself is nice! But frankly I'd be more interested in kosher/halal pork products. What do you suppose the Jewish/Muslim take on lab-grown pork products would be?

The problem isn't that it's not dumbed down enough; the problem is that it's created by and written for people who don't understand what science fiction is. In other words, it's for dumb people.

I read that script. Instead of the Queen -> Egg -> Facehugger -> Chestburster -> Alien cycle that was introduced and explained in Aliens, the author decided that was lame, so he turned the Aliens into a virus. It's no wonder why it got dropped.

I remember back in the 80's that practically every piece of cheap plastic junk at the local store had "Hecho en Mexico" printed on the bottom. We didn't have a immigration problem back then. Then in the 90's I started noticing that a lot of the cheap plastic stuff had "Made in China" printed on it. I also noted that the southwest states began complaining about illegals at around the same time.

Call me crazy, but we made this problem ourselves. When we pulled our manufacturing out of Mexico and sent it to China the Mexicans had no choice but to come here looking for work. If we could somehow get businesses interested in moving the plants back to Mexico maybe we could cut illegal immigration down.

Or we could throw business men in jail, where we have to support them with tax dollars. My way seems like less of a burden on the tax payer.

Simpler, yes, but the problem is that rotational gravity systems don't scale down all that well. For example, if you're going to approximate Earth gravity, you need a structure about 225 meters away from the hub rotating around 2 revolutions per minute. Anything less than that and you start running into issues with angular and tangential velocity which could cause all sorts of motion sickness and balance issues.

Why is it that every time someone writes an article about procreation in space, they bring up the microgravity question over and over? I get that they're basing their assumptions off of the technology that we use now, but seriously, this stuff isn't going to happen with the technology we use now. It'll be using technology of the future, near or distant. A space station utilizing rotational gravity via centrifugal acceleration can be made to simulate Earth gravity. Slow it down a little and suddenly you have Martian gravity. Slow it down a little more and you've got Lunar gravity. No reason to dip yourself in a gravity well.

Yes, a space station that uses centrifugal acceleration is complicated and would be expensive by today's standards, but again, think about 50 or 75 years in the future. The ISS will be deorbited by then. Will they stop there, or will they make another one? What features and advantages will it have over the ISS? How long with the ISS II be up there? Will they build another one after that? What features will that generation of space station have?

I don't think we'll have to worry about procreation in space for the near future. Right now it's more of a scientific curiosity than an actual need, but that will change if we continue to expand into space. By that point our space technologies will have advanced to the point where it will no longer be a concern.

I just did a quick search and there's a manufacturer selling a desktop 3D printer for $10,000. It uses a different process in the build; more like laying clear tape and cutting it at each layer to produce a model. The next cheapest I could find used the more traditional "goop" like resin and was $15,000. The last time I checked prices about two years ago and they were hovering around $30,000. At this rate you'll probably see models in the $1500-3000 range in about 3-7 years.
The question then is, what do you build with it?

Bullshit. Maybe that's what you consider science fiction, but I certainly don't! Hell, by that reasoning Lord of the Rings would be science fiction if they simply called the ring a "personality back-up device". No, I'm sorry, you do not know what you're talking about.

If the explanation is based on science or scientific hypotheses that have yet to be proven, it's acceptable. It really depends on the execution.

Star Trek, while obviously being science fiction, had a problems; they hired writers with absolutely no science back ground at all, but most science fiction television series has this problem. Ignore the episodes that bring down the franchise and you'll enjoy it a lot more (I'm looking at you, Voyager episode "Threshold").

Star Wars IS NOT science fiction. It has never claimed to be science fiction, and never will be.

You keep using this word "fantastic" and yet are seemingly unable to connect it to it's root word "FANTASY". I wonder why that is...

Right. The main reason the sun is destroying the Earth doesn't matter, as long as they don't use some technobabble excuse to fix it.

2012 was a disaster movie. The science they used to explain the disaster was 100% horseshit. I think that's where some people get confused. Since they tried to explain it away with fictional science, it must be science fiction, right? Uh, no.

Fixed that for you.

I don't understand why this is so hard to understand... Science fiction is fiction based on real science. Light sabers cannot be made in the real world, so Star Wars is not science fiction.

Space ships are really easy to disqualify: If a "space craft" behaves as it would in an atmosphere (banking, swooping, doing barrel rolls and making noise the whole time), it is not science fiction.

Defying Gravity was crap. It was Grey's Anatomy in space meeting aliens. Had it simply been what the mission was (a long trip around the solar system) it might have been interesting, but instead they had to go with aliens. Lame.

Drug runners? What is this, the 1970's? Pot/Meth is grown/cooked in houses/trailers. In other words, someones house. I read about meth and grow houses getting busted all the time. The only reason this is news is because it's a copy-write bust. These are rare, at least in the States.

I think you mean digital creationism. Flynn's explanation for them was that once the conditions became right they just [magically] appeared. And Flynn, who is supposed to be this genius, goes on to say that they're just algorithms that are really complicated. Yep, that makes sense.