I'm the seriously out of the curve on this survey; I'm a straight male who finds ALL tattoos unattractive and something of a turn-off.

I love Trek. I guess my "proudest Trekkie moment" was at the premiere of the '09 movie. I'd worn a black Nike t-shirt and pinned a Starfleet badge over the "swoosh". It must have been quite visible, because as my wife and I were standing in the aisle looking for seats a bunch of people already seated started clapping a...more

Some people need killing, you know.

In my youth I was involved in the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), a medieval recreation society. Think like people who camp out and do Civil War re-enactments, but Middle Ages fun instead, and you have the right idea. Anyways, some of my friends and I started making suits of full plate armor, fully articulated ...more

My coolest shirt is one that says "Historical Pre-Enactment Society", with a picture of Knights in armor that has high-tech panels, and the Knights have ray-guns and such. Can be viewed in the Store section at dresdencodak.com .

Pfft. Scientists don't even know how life arose HERE. No clue, period. When I was young the prevalent idea (called "abiogenesis") was that if you had a primordial soup of amino acids and waited long enough, life would spontaeously generate. That theory is now discredited, and scientists now go for something called "pan...more

I've read quite a bit on this subject. I recommend anyone reading this check out the Wikipedian article on "Fermi Paradox". That number of stars Dr. Kaku gives needs to be taken down QUITE a bit. If we're talking about anything like life as we know it, most of the stars in any galaxy are compacted at the center of said...more

And over time this will lead to the new term of "intellectually disabled" being seen as a pejorative as well, and you won't be allowed to say that either.

I remember reading years ago that all the major world religions have 3 criteria they all meet; They have a Revealer of the Way, a Book of Holy Writ, and a Holy place of origin. Wicca has..., what, none of the above? This reminds me of the movie Spinal Tap and where they do the bit about the Druids... "nobody knows who ...more