Recent content by Razorback Gorilla

In 1900, people predicted we would not fly for another 1000 years. Yet in 1903 we had the first manned flight and 66 years later-we went to the moon. These things were much more doable than we thought but it is 2026 and we still do not have a cure for baldness or a reliable male birth control...

I'm a huge Star Wars fan and it just occurred to me, that the ion weapons used to disable droids, ships and other electronics would cause serious harm as well, to living beings, if they got accidentally hit by a bolt. Ionized radiation can give a person cancer, and the amount of microsieverts to...