I'd pay to see those stretch goats.

"Voyager" would have worked if the writers would have cut back severely on the booze. Kate Mulgrew is a fine actress, but the writing for her character was wildly inconsistent and the writing for the show varied between "going through the motions" and "people actually got paid for this crap?". If there was ever a by-the-numbers, we-can't-upset-the-status-quo-one-iota television show, it was "Voyager". You can go back and watch "Gilligan's Island" reruns and there is a more realistic chance that the castaways will get rescued in every single episode than there will be in the Voyager crew making any meaningful progress in getting back to Earth, until the finale-decreed deus ex machina.

If your brain did work, you'd likely have better appreciation for classic cinema, and if you still didn't like it, your criticisms would be more meaningful than "they are so terrible", therefore I conclude there is no evidence to back up your assertion.

I thought you were being sarcastic to make a point in the first paragraph.

In the second, I realized that maybe you weren't and I feel very sad for you. What do you like? Michael Bay movies?

Maybe not to you, but I've seen the three episodes of "Star Trek Continues" and I thought they were great. Yes, the acting the isn't always the best, but the effort faithfully created the look and feel of the original show and the stories were really good. You might not like it or think it's a good idea, but other people, like me, disagree with you, and are willing to finance the project so that it can continue. Therefore, it is a good idea.

Gee, a television show shouldn't feature its stars performing most of the action? The thing that ticks me off more than anything else about criticism of shows like Star Trek is people who refuse to acknowledge the trade-offs that needed to be made to make a _television show_ 50 years ago. Sure, let's have Ensign Ricky and a team of redshirts we don't care about be the away team because that's more realistic, and no one is interested in watching the show.

Says the Anonymous Coward. Being an Anonymous Coward surrenders your right to share an opinion and have anyone care about it.

Star Trek was fine science fiction, but it was soft science fiction, and the science part of the fiction wasn't often the core of the story, nor what made the show good.

Star Trek had plenty of cool ideas that have become reality, but every one of those ideas existed before Star Trek... it just made them more widely known, so it's a bit of a stretch to say it inspired all those ideas.

Exactly. This experiment is just that, an experiment. If it works, it will show evidence of something predicted by these multiverse theories based on inflation, and provides an interesting and important new data point. If it doesn't it doesn't disprove anything because it's still a guess.

There are so many weird and previously unexpected things that were predicted by theory and only then discovered: variations in orbits due to the curvature of spacetime (predicted by relativity and confirmed by studying the orbit of Mercury), the existence of neutrinos, the cosmic background radiation, a lot of other stuff from the Standard Model that I don't recall because I'm not an expert...

Sure, except the main reason ISIS is a problem now is because of the U.S. We broke it; we bought it.

We well through that option out the window when we precipitously withdrew from Iraq, which goes to the comment below, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

The U.S. has been incompetent and now violence is the only option we have left.

It also depends on how old you are. If you are in your early 20s, this is pretty normal. If you are in your 40s, I'd be very surprised and a little jealous.

Good. I like when things are questioned. I read both Brian Greene and Lee Smolin.

Nonetheless, there are predictions that can be made based on current research, and it makes sense to try them out if there's a reasonable way to do it.

Yeah, except I think most of us agree that genocide is a Bad Thing.