In development now: a drug that can produce a hibernation state. This would be used for long duration space flights -- colony flights! -- and is expected to be available in 10 years.

Go here for the news story.

We could have colony flights ... within my own lifetime...

I wonder if I could get on the second tier flights with the hairdressers and phone sanitizers.

In other news, Silicon Graphics is building a 500 terabyte supercomputer for NASA... with Linux.

Wired college students claim that Real Life is "just another window". Sounds like Xyl -- "You don't like it, change the channel." If RL is just another window, why can't I click on things and make them disappear?

To work, I say, to work! Igor, open the black hole story and get my Dictionary.com!