Comment: Truth is Stranger Than Sci-Fi. (Score 1) 554
Minor footnote: author Kim Stanley Robinson wrote presciently about this technology in his Mars trilogy (specifically, "Green Mars", I believe.)
--joe.
Comment: Re:Where's an editor when you need one? (Score 3, Informative) 60
Uhh, don't forget Genesis:
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov/
Sure, it had a hairy reentry/recovery, but it certainly recovered samples from the inner Solar System. These were likely attributable to the Sun or were of interstellar origin.
--joe.
Comment: I have not read TFA... (Score 1) 233
...but I can summarize my eventual response regardless:
That is NOT evolution.
--joe.
That is NOT evolution.
--joe.
Comment: What about Yavin? (Score 1) 142
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yavin ...I mean, in the litany of famous gas-giants, this one certainly rates. Not much else could get between the rebels and the first Death Star.