First Post your way to a degree!

Actually you can aim them by choosing your generation process parameters correctly.

Slashdot has always been one of my favorite sites and a source of interesting information off the mainstream information sources. You could find real gems in the posts, although sometimes hidden in tons of trolling ;-)

Good luck with your future.

I like:

http://physicsworld.com/
http://www.physicstoday.org/

They are good a summary of current work but still easy to understand.

Maybe SJ is a beliver in Voodoo and afraid of angry customers ;-)

There is a very nice SCI-FI story about life in strange locations here, it is called "Passages in the Void"

http://localroger.com/revelation-passage/

I think it would be too early to call FTL travel and time travel impossible (the two beeing closly connected). There are interesting theories for FTL (like the Alcubierre drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive) and although this does require negative matter as parent noted this does not mean it is impossible. The Casimir effect for example (a well known quantum effect) produces a mass-negative region of space.