What is the aim of science? "What?" "Man's happiness. If science doesn't make men happier, what good is it? Knowledge is power, a weapon, and if the … - Dmitri Bilenkin

What used to be an advantage had quickly turned into a liability, proving once more that in the mountains, as in life, nothing comes easily.

“In traveling to the past, you can either appear in a predetermined point in space or in a predetermined point in time. In principle, it is impossible to do both simultaneously.” (Fundamental Temporalics, A.D. 2023)

I’m sure that the fantastic descriptions of interstellar travel in the science fiction of the last century made many a heart skip a beat. I really don’t want my account to be a wet blanket, but the truth is the truth: there is nothing duller than space flight.