I have no respect for anyone who's business model is "there are a lot of suckers in the world". I know most rich people use this business model, but I am convinced that humanity as a whole (including them) suffers a lot because of these nearsighted selfish idiots.

mod parent up. while they seem kind of overenthusiastic, it's true that quantum teleportation is a lot more like the replicator in Star Trek than anything else.

you do realize that there are communities in Africa where you can take two random people, check how much their DNA differs, and you will find that that difference is "bigger" than the differences between most "Europeans" and "Asians", right?
the color of people's skin is related to the amount of sun their ancestors had to deal with. I'm not sure how long back in time, but probably a lot. the length of people's limbs and the thickness of their body has to do with the amount of heat their ancestors had to dissipate. that's about it.

what this means in practice is that if you take blueeyed whiteskinned northern people, and you put them on a tropical island, and you check again in N generations (I'm not sure how large N is, but it shouldn't be very large), then you will find black eyed people with darker skin, only because it's easier to live there with these properties. in fact, I don't think it would be very easy to convince blue eyed whiteskinned northern people to go live on a tropical island...

back to the issue of DNA differences: unless you have training in the area, don't try to draw conclusions, because these are complicated issues. for instance I read somewhere that when all you have to work with are bones, then you can say that two specimens are different species; but when you look at the DNA, you might say that they are indeed the same species. for instance pygmies are homo sapiens.

my advice to you is to either get a degree in the field, or stop believing what people said 100 years ago, when it was still acceptable to be a racist in many circles (thus the biased conclusions you've been reading).

true, not a significant fraction of c.
but take into account that relativistic effects are noticeable (on the scale of 100 years) for Mercury, which orbits between 0.3 and 0.4 AU from the Sun. also take into account that these are heavy objects, and we might find that a satellite moving between these two stars could be used to study relativistic effects. I'm not gonna try to compute anything, but relativistic effects are noticeable for GPS satellites, so what I said must make sense.

obviously, the interesting results would be found if the poor thing didn't burn first...

me too. books have to be opened this way too if you need to hold them in your hands for some reason.
all of this is valid if you insist to look at the front cover the right way while you open them. otherwise you can simply turn the cd case around, and do the mirror movements; and you can simply do a perfectly symmetrical movement with books.

you do realize that the communication issue is still there, right?

their plan:
send robot, robot says "i'm going in the cave, talk to you in a few hours".
a few minutes later, mission control on earth hears the message.
robot goes down the cave, takes pictures and samples, then comes back up.
robot says "ok guys, I'm back, here's the pictures, I'll have more on the samples in a few hours".

your plan:
send man, man says "i'm going in the cave, talk to you in a few hours".
a few minutes later, mission control on earth hears the message.
man goes down the cave, takes pictures and samples, says "wow", then comes back up.
man says "ok guys, I'm back, check my facebook page for the pictures, I'll have more on the samples in a few hours".

see title

nope. I say masturbating moron.

obviously, we need to make copyright longer, to keep people from making changes to our heritage!

this is not funny.