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How about wondering Jupiter-sized planets? There are estimated to be more wondering planets than stars in our galaxy, according to last night's episode of "How the Universe Works". These could disturb the Oort cloud also.

Their gravitational effect can't be compared to the one of a whole star, imo. The mass of all our planets are about 1 to 100 in favour our Sun so planets can have almost no effect.

The advancement in genetics is obvious and it is exponentially going further and further. IMO, genetic superhumans might be be very possible. But will it be ethical and will it cause more problems, rather than solving them?

Here is an article I wrote for genetic perfection of our species on my own: http://scifi-real.com/playing-god-genetic-superhumans/

For me science is God and it is in every object or being. It is just the ancients did not call it "science".

I wouldn't say they've made it possible... Yet.

Easiest and quickest is the direct approach, smacking it with as much mass as we can or exploding a nuke near enough to cause massive outgassing, if it is not too large. Those methods are quick and dirty last resorts, no telling what direction they will take assuming it is probably rotating. It would be nice to know if it is solid metal, rock, or a rubble pile. If it is several miles across and far enough away, I propose a Bruce Willis, dig into the center and blow it up to scatter the pieces as far apart as possible. Gravity tractors are among the indirect methods, best but they take a long time to work.

 

We will probably not see a Tunguska sized object until it is too late, but probably it will not destroy a major city.

I am not an expert in calculations, but shouldn't a nuke that can split a huge asteroid be of tremendous size? And how about the several remaining chunks that will still be relatively big?

A couple of points, if connecting one rat's brain to another via wires is "telepathy" then so is using a mobile phone.

Also re "For example, workers in high risk environments could control their equipment using their brain, so there will be a faster response time and less margin of error (think fighter jet pilots)."

They tried this.

Here''s the problem

Don't think of an elephant.

 

Now imagine that I said " don't think about launching the ejector seat"...

Wires will be a temporary thing (just like phones were wired). However, I also think that telepathy should be something more natural and including none of just a few mechanical enhancements. It is only a matter of time until more brain functions are discovered and understood, imo.

A more precise definition will be given, when more scientists have the chance to review the data. 2 weeks is way too early to think on such a fundamental discovery.

Hello! My favorite topic is astronomy and I hope some day interstellar travel will be possible. This forum contains a lot of interesting stuff.

If we want to travel FTL we must think of ways how to surround the special relativity theory. My bets guess is warp drive. I hope my children will see it happening.

What method of dodging the bas*ards is the easiest to achieve? http://scifi-real.com/how-to-avoid-impacts-with-objects-from-space/

I like the gravity pull one to nudge an object, but it takes ages and you must see it coming a long time before it collides with Earth.

Those rat tests are showing amazing results all over the world. For instance rats got the ability to "sense" infrared light, connected to IR sensor via electrodes attached directly to the brain. More here: http://scifi-real.com/sixth-sense-brain-implants/