God Throws Dice, What Can I Say?

Aging Is Basically The Build-up Of Error: Error At The Genetic Level, Error At The Cellular Level. Cells Normally Repair Themselves; That's Why You Heal When You Get A Cut. But Even The Mechanism Of Repair Eventually Falls Apart.

After That Cancellation [of The Superconducting Super Collider In Texas, After $2 Billion Had Been Spent On It], We Physicists Learned That We Have To Sing For Our Supper. ... The Cold War Is Over. You Can't Simply Say "russia!" To Congress, And They Whip Out Their Checkbook And Say, "how Much?" We Have To Tell The People Why This Atom-smasher Is Going To Benefit Their Lives.

Chances Are, The Aliens Will Not Want To Land On Our Backyard, Or Even The White House Lawn, With Their Flying Saucers. They May Have Tiny, Robotic Self-replicating Probes Which Can Reach Near Light Speed And Can Proliferate Around The Galaxy. So Instead Of The Enterprise And Huge Star Ships, The Aliens Might Actually Send Tiny Probes To Explore The Universe. One Might Land On Our Lawn And We Won't Even Know.

I Used To Watch The Old 'flash Gordon' Series On Tv, And It Was Thrilling To Rocket To The Planet Mongo Every Week. But After A While, I Figured Out That Although Flash Got The Girl And All The Accolades, It Was Really Dr. Zarkov Who Made The Series Work. Without Dr. Zarkov, There Could Be No Flash Gordon.

The Reactors In Japan Are Stable In The Same Way That A Ticking Time Bomb Is Also Stable. It Wouldn't Take Much To Light The Fuse - A 6.6 Earthquake, Like What Happened Today In Japan, A Pipe Break, An Over-pressurized Containment Vessel - Anything Could Set It Off, In Which Case We Would Have Another Chernobyl, Three Times The Magnitude Of A Chernobyl Accident.