I was thinking Slashdot Headline.

Cool -- recursively self-insulting.

This is rocket science. People are supposed to go "tits up".

I think you mean, first person to set up space snipers to ward off the competition, gets all the space territory they want.

How do you know their strategy isn't "Convince the US to give up research so they won't be 'losers'. Then we can finally get ahead of them."? After all, why else declassify that strategy given its not complete?

When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee consulted with their time-traveling division, they were told: OK, this guy is going to start a bunch of wars, which will be embarrassing at first. But he'll also finally put us on a path toward space colonization, which will forever change the face of war -- not only will it change the "us vs them" dynamic, but it will also make offensive wars prohibitively costly compared to defensive. Yup, give him the prize.

OK, so they found something that, according to their models, is a model for curved spacetime. Why not just use the original model?

Hotels! You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...

Someone called you out on having moldy bags of cereal, and you're pretending that it is cutting edge research. Like anyone's going to fall for that!

To qualify my comment, this is probably the only way he has left, to actually earn that Nobel Peace Prize. Set aside a few piles of money for research, and for engineering/manufacturing, related to colonization. Inspire the public -- make space colonization the top priority even above those scary terr'ists, and above bombing the Middle East (again), even above the economy. It would be a far more popular way to spend our money than on yet another unpopular war.

As I understand it, pharmaceuticals are the one area where the duration of patents is about right to offset the massive delays and costs of development (due to more stringent testing requirements than the average product). On the other hand, it also means people die because they can't afford the patented medication. Quite the conundrum.

To be fair, they are pushing economics boundaries. Which are the only boundaries really holding us back from colonizing the system (and then galaxy).

Start.

This idea seems about as brilliant as treating ebola with the "kiss it to make it better" system. The problem: wealth inequality. The solution: tax consumption (which will affect the poor and middle class who spend more of their income on consumption). Meanwhile it will not affect the rich people's major form of income: investment.

Did they find any genes that help with initiative?