Month: February 2013

Zeta Reticuli

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The Prime Directive

As much as I respect Gene Roddenberry, something in Star Trek bothers me and that is the “Prime Directive”.  At first, I thought it only bothered me because it was inconvenient.  It meant, we would not be able to help…

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It Won’t Be Star Trek

Assuming that some form of faster than light travel, or some means of side-stepping the immense distances between star systems, is possible, we will, if we haven’t already, encounter intelligent civilized alien species from other star systems. The alien species…

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