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indeed

I like the "from protein we are form" song better

Well he isn't entirely wrong by saying that biotics is KINDA like telekinesis. If the element zero and mass effects really existed (the in game version of mass effects), if an electric current passed through eezo the mass effect would be produced AROUND IT. But in the game we see biotics producing fields at varying distances and sizes having no explanation as to HOW they can project those fields. The mass relays part, the game itself is pretty vague in that regard, since it pushes a bit the laws of physics in order to make the relays real (how do they physically act in order to make that envelope of mass free space?) so they were correct on developing that theory based on known physics. But the invisibility part is spot on and this scientist is just awesome

Yea but remember It's not Dr. Michio Kakus fault it's not like he ever played the game. Hes just comparing Biotics to Telekinesis cause it looks similar to Biotics even though it isn't. They guy interviewing him didn't explain Biotics very well. Or else maybe he would understand that Biotics is a bit different than what he thought it was. And Yea I agree Daniel Kayser acts like he never played mass effect with the questions he asked. What he should have done is show Dr. Michio Kaku the Mass Effect Codex cause then that would have explained to him how the Mass Effect universe tech works. Then he could do a proper way of explaining things rather then comparing it to stuff that sounds like it works a lot like telekinesis.

Austin Clark I never said anything was Dr. Kaku's fault in my original comment. I specifically pointed out that it was Daniel who was presenting things in a "skewed" fashion. I kept the fact that the good doctor hadn't played any of the games in consideration for my argument from the very beginning. He was doing an exemplary job explaining the ideas that he was asked to explain. Daniel/ his researchers, (if he had any) are the only ones at fault. Its not called, "Real scientific concepts compared to the science of Mass Effect", it is only simply "The science of Mass Effect 2" essentially science fiction which is the only realm things should have been explained in with perhaps the occasional relevant piece of real science that can be connected to each fictional concept.

firstlightrevan Opes sorry I was not trying to make it look like you said it's his fault. I was only pointing out it's the guy who interviewed fault he didn't let Michio Kaku see the game and maybe show him the Mass Effect Codex to explain how science fiction worked in the games. Then he'd understand it. Cause he was only comparing it to things it sounded like.

Must just about to go to the comments to type this. Thank you.

Dustin Barlow ikr

He is also japanese, wich means he is probably working on some super advanced battle mech!

He's a shill.

Pretty much every Cerberus researcher ever (besides that mission with Jacob in ME3 and Dr. Archer) is dead by the time you see them.

oh shit, I just noticed that XD Cerberus must have those NICE job benefits like at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza :p

Billy Drake In fiction every scientist is crazy, every military officer is power hungry brutal, and every politic is stupid (though that they're layers is true). If it would be opposite then it would be boring.

Well, Mordin, who is arguably the most important scientist in Mass Effect, lived a very long life for a Salarian. Wait a second, why am I replying to a three year old comment anyway?

cause mordin is awesome?

They skipped the whole thing cuz eezo DON'T exist in real world, or at the very least, no physicist found any hints that such materials exist. & besides, electromagnetism as we know it, is entirely incapable of stopping physical matter.

Falcon Windblade Thats like saying that we are not allowed to speculate on things that haven't been discovered yet. I've seen Michio talk about teleporation and that doesnt exist in the real world. Besides, there are all sorts of theories that physics work differently in different universes or even different areas outside of our galaxy, perhaps one could speculate that there is in fact a universe with physics with a force like gravity but more manipulable that works just like eezo.

Blaylock1988 your such a good listener... cose teleportation is possible today...

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Yes. Real shame that reporter wasn't really an expert on Mass Effect technology - so he didn't explain what are the Mass Relays, how does FTL work in Mass Effect, what kinetic barriers do.

It’s probably 42.

Nothing can explain that Galactic Dogfart.

You require of impossible.

Yes, in one word "fake"

wolfafe personally I feel most of the stuff he does is pandering to the masses what generally isn't enjoyable to watch for me.

thanks *****

***** All of it is enlightening it is a shame though that most of these things we will never see in our life time.

shadow60210 That's why there are companies trying to make human being immortal :)

MankindDiary Yeah, and once they are able to do it there will be three classes of people. The intelligent ones (good) the rich (bad) and the one that will life as now.

Scardust6600 Any evidences? You know, things like that can say anyone. I want evidence, that your statement is logical, rational position based on empirical data.

I'm praying for reincarnation... XD

+RaizenToguro Fuck that noise. If that happens, then the planet is fucked.

lol no it wont. the world will keep getting more and more advance. not backwards.

+PaulGilbertrulezzz When you create a stable way to contain plasma energy we can.

Michio Kaku is scifi whore and someone please take away mass effect from bioware&ea slimy laps. They gonna fuck up even third from 4.

I would take him on all of my missions!!!

***** I'd throw him out of the airlock.

Jacob011 Javik would agree.

No, I don't want to see his face all glitched with creepy swj eyes

Eezo is not an element (Chemical element), it's just the human name for it. Element Zero, also known as "eezo", is a rare material that, when subjected to an electrical current, releases dark energy which can be manipulated into a mass effect field, raising or lowering the mass of all objects within that field. A positive current increases mass, a negative current decreases it. This "mass effect" is used in countless ways, from generating artificial gravity to manufacturing high-strength construction materials. Eezo is generated when solid matter, such as a planet, is affected by the energy of a star going supernova. The material is common in the asteroid debris that orbits neutron stars and pulsars Despite its name, it is not actually a chemical element. "Element zero" is merely the human nickname for this material

Dacino Hoihe Thanks for the correction. Your right. However, the main point I was trying to make was that mass effect force fields are unlike conventional science fiction ecause instead of simply deflecting objects, they alter their mass to slow them down to a stop. Hence the name "Kinetic Barrier". And no, Element Zero is not an element. It's a type of energy. Your absolutely right.

Dacino Hoihe So basically, the mass effect field in a kinetic barrier rapidly increases and decreases the projectile's mass until it looses momentum and stops, then falls to the ground (rather then direct deflection like this video suggests, probably because that's the more traditional type of force fields in the science fiction that Dr. Kaku probably grew up with, not the more modernized mass effect type).

Kinetic Barriers are the opposite to the weapons themselves...the weapons are using a block of tungsten where small particles are shaven off and accelerated using mass effect fields which are negated when "impacting" on the kinetic barriers

Wat utter horseshit. This is the sort of pseudo-intellectual quasi-profound crap that would make Deepak Chopra proud.

Basic quantum mechanics=married bachelors exist.

Beezlbob Destraint law of infinate probability means anything can happon at anytime for no reason

I refuse to listen to anybody who can't even spell the words they're talking about. Also, infinite probability is far from proven, and even if it was proven, it could still not produce logical impossibilities, such as married bachelors.

a married bachelor is more of a logical paradox instead of an impossibility

Walid Feghali 1:20 is also stupid calling Biotics telekinesis what an idiot.

Depends of what you hear. If you heard "twenty three" twice - you get 122%, but if you heard "puny three" when Dr. Kaku was talking about dark matter, then you get 99%. Not sure which one he *meant* to say tho.

OMG. 73% is dark energy, 23% is dark mater, 23% of KNOW UNIWERSE is built from H and He, and humans discovered 0.3% of whole universe.

@@acetraker1988 Telekinesis: moving shit with your mind. Biotics: moving shit with your mind.

Michio kaku, got into Harvard very early in his life by creating a mini particle accelerator in his garage. He has his own books and a show on Discovery Science "Sci-Fi of the impossible". But yeah he is a nobody...

+Nathan Mortenson Well he did say that we could harness negative matter which might change space and time. To control gravity, we need to change the space itself. Matter influenced space and that's why more massive object have stronger gravity. What negative matter does is to influence the space itself without the matter (even though it is called negative matter). I only wish that we discover it sooner, I really want to be a biotic myself.

You would like to become a biotic? Nah. Element Zero is dangerous. To be a biotic one would need to have been exposed to it in utero.

dude element zero is simply a massless element (element one is hydrogen). photons and other electromagnetic radiation particles are also massless that's why they can travel at lightspeed. Even if we -discover- manufacture an element zero which is an atom with an atomic mass of 0 (impossible) we won't get FTL speeds because nothing goes faster than LS not even the massless particles. We also won't travel at LS unless we and our ship are completely made from element zero which is also impossible.

thats true, but i think the games explain to you that everyone have a translation equipment in their suits (or maybe it is explain in the novels, i dont remember), that let you (the character) hear everything in your own language, but to garrus or wrex, you are talking their language... sometime ago, google was investigate a tech that could do that (at a limited extend), with different "earth" language... so it would be realistic in a couple of years

Not really. They could have a native tounge but learn english because cross race trade has been long established. If you can space travel, you can learn a language.

***** if i just consider your response, and not mine, they wouldnt learn english, you have at least 12 races, and every single people of each race need to learn all the others language, that is not practical... also, "earth" is the underdog, why should everyone care about learning their language, its not "important". is like if you are North American, all of you should learn and speak fluently spanish, dutch, mandarin, arabic, and all the others, but you dont, you maybe choose one of them, or as a personal challenge, learn others or old ones, like latin, but that kind of people is just a small percentage of the population.

grievondeath Cool, I didn't notice that.

Martin Kincl response to everyone. This codex entry should answer the question: masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Codex/UPDATE:_Bring_Down_the_Sky

if technological singularity occur in a thousand yrs you won't be able to be "born".

***** Fuck man, I hope you're right.

i feel you

Dude I can hope to create a starship in the next decade. I really want to see the next solar system with my own eyes before I die.

***** Well, for that to happen you would have to eliminate diseases that come from aging like heart disease and dementia. Plus something like resveratrol that can alter genetics to slow or even stop aging (resveratrol isn't proven to do that just yet) would possibly have to be used in pill form. And something to stop free radicals which are molecules that damage our body as we age. Not to mention we're only recently starting to use artificial organs and they're not 100% safe/viable yet. We have artificial limbs already but only to the extent of just helping the disabled move around. A way to stop or even slow aging would take decades to centuries from where we are now. I'm just gonna estimate and say that life-prolong advances in medicine and technology that double to triple your life span won't be until at least another 100-200 years.

+Bruce Crossan What happens when you get idiots who know nothing about the lore of mass effect "I suspect" they never played ME1 or READ that damn Codex. It is PAINFUL to watch this video and they call Biotics "telekinesis"

mostly because Biotics essentially ARE telekinesis.

Eezo is like the exotic matter in the Alcubierre Drive. Something nonexistent (or atleast not yet proven to exist) necessary to manipulate space/mass to reach ftl travel within the constraints of a physical theory of your choosing, since there's lots of them around, potentially clashing with each other.

+globalSchelmuffsky codex narrated by him or neil de grayse tayson or some scientists at least would be epic af

I call bull***t on your comment, you are just another troll dissing someone who actually worked hard to get his opinion respected unlike you. Learn something from academia, PROOF of statements are required rather then just your word.

Thurston Lhast Perhaps you should be directing your anger at Michio Kaku. I'm just a nobody on the Internet. If I say something false, most people will just ignore me. But if HE says something false, he than implies "I should know; I'm an expert." That's when it becomes a real problem, but for some, him being an expert on something means he's an expert on everything he choses to talk about.

Thurston Lhast Excuse my typos - I was in a hurry and forgot to spell check.

You realize he was not the only one saying that right? You make it sound like hes the only one that made it a big deal. Their were tuns of scientists who made 2012 a thing. And I don't ever remember him saying stuff on that. I have seen him talk about what could happen if 2012 was real but I never saw him say it was a legit thing and told everyone to prepare for DOOM. If you have a link to where he says that than please list it thanks.

Austin Clark There is a dangerous tendency among many scientists today where they base their experiments on results acquired through past experiments by other scientists. Why is this dangerous, you ask? The past "definitive" experiments are considered arbitrarily fact, when in truth there may have been a fault in its procedure or whatnot, so when the new experiment has results that differ from the old one, it is assumed that something must have been incorrect in the new one's procedure, when in fact it was the original that had the fault. This topic is discussed more thouroughly in "Cargo Cult Science" by Richard Feyman. So basically it both discounts and supports Dr. Michio Kaku and your reply. I hope this helps.

+PureLightHealer You would not want actual ME biotic tech to be real. Lowering and raising Mass of an object you know the actual mistake this video made. Would create OP weapons. Think a 5mm bullet wiping out a city for example. That's just one of many things. A Doomsday weapon could be to turn something into having more mass of the earth that would do massive damage.

Toveri Juri It don't exist? Element Zero is Deus Ex Machina. In space opera it isn't important how something work, but how could be used. Mass Effect is simply equivalent of magic what explain everything what writer demand.

No but it's properties and how far off from reality something like that is. If you could manipulate mass the way mass effects fields allow would it work at all the way it's described in the game. This is just a generic scifi talk in the end. The only thing that makes the scifi universe of mass effect unique from others is the mass effect itself.

Toveri Juri Except it could be also advanced holography, modular robotic and other fancy tech and no one would notice difference. If so most interesting part until now are Reapers, as it is not common to have non space opera aliens in space opera.

TheRezro The reapers are just another version of the unbeatable foe until they are beatable. They are the borg or shadows(babylon 5) of Mass effect.

Toveri Juri Yes, but those always were interesting. Also I simply like that they are more realistic then most typical crappy alien.

Well they do use their brains to exert force and control the element zero around them... Also implants are linked to the back of their head, which is where their nerve central is... And some gets a nosebleed if they overexert... So why not telekinesis?

yeah, it kinda is.

Well they explain in the game that Reapers only possess an almost unlimited amount of knowledge, not that they are invincible or even god-like. In fact the Geth are already extremely intelligent and powerful and they are only 3 centuries old from the first game. I believe a better question is how does AI become self aware like the Reapers or the Geth.

Don't know about the rest, but as of last year the genophage is now possible through crispr and cas9

They did.

Especially the Japanese ones.

***** Dr. Michio Kaku is in fact american. I wonder whether you would still come up with this brilliant comment if this man looks like some white guy.

Ali Bin Heth I would. It would still be true of the Japanese ones. Given that a bunch of my friends are Japanese and even some of their parents play computer games, I am fairly sure in my assessment. You're assuming I was criticising. I was observing.

We do already, they're just not holographic.

I dunno, holographic is near-future plausible too, but the thing is it's require a projector for whatever kind of energy they were using, either a physical ball (like the illusive man's little drone thing), or line-of-sight projectors that focus energy on one point. Thing is you'd need a miniaturised power source, the technology to float it, and a good reason to use holographic/etc. tech instead of something cheaper and more energy efficient like metals.

***** It's distant future possible, not near. the kinda power source small yet powerful enough to power such stuff for long periods ain't gonna come in at least a century from now, the floating tech required to make them so damn maneuverable's nowhere near being developed, & making solids outta energy capable of dishing damage's for now, something entirely restricted in sci-fi. furthermore still, you missed one essential element - AI. one sophisticated yet small enough to function the ones seen in mass effect would probably require major breakthroughs in both physics & biology, & we too are nowhere near that.

For holographic: Red Dwarf. The lightbee that projects Lister's hologram. I know there's lots of inconsistency in how it actually works through out the series, but that idea is the closest I'm aware of to that. However, I agree that building drones out of physical materials is much more practical and feasible. It's also not so far off. Surveillance drones already exist, and they can be equipped with missiles for surgical strikes. The only thing is they're remotely operated. A combat drone wouldn't need a full fledged AI (Rise of the Machines anyone?), but some form of computer suite that included terrain and obstacle recognition capability, IFF, and targeting, and perhaps unit damage awareness would do. Even the IFF isn't strictly necessary. Someone else could paint the targets (maybe with a surveillance drone?) and the attack drone could take them.

Falcon Windblade Yeah I was not speaking about full functionality as seen in ME - should have made that clear. I meant just having a floating holographic projection.

It does not shield against heat thought. I know exactly what u r refering to.

DroneForFun DontLookUp And in a stealth bomber, they've managed to widdle everything down to a point where on any scanner it appears to be little more than a bird. Plus being invisible to the naked eye.

No, that's not correct. DARPA is researching "cloaking", yes. (The proper term is Active Camouflage) However, it is still very much in the developmental phase. Right now they're trying to develop it for things like individual soldiers, or armored vehicles. Stealth bombers are not invisible. Although, given your profile pic, you probably already know that, and you're just trolling to see what responses you get.

***** Stealth bombers do indeed have cameras on the top of the plane, which actively record what is visible above, and translates that image to screens on the bottom. So, to a person looking up at the thing, it is practically invisible to the naked eye. Also, judging me by a profile pic? =P I do enjoy screwing around with people online, but I assure you I'm not doing such at the present time.

Raptorman0205 In that case, you're just misinformed. There are no screens on the bottoms of stealth bombers. That's tinfoil-hat nonsense. Give it a few more decades, and then perhaps they'll have active camouflage on aircraft. Right now, nothing has it, other than some test suits in the DARPA labs.

***** lol

***** he's not saying facts are boring. He's saying the people providing those facts do so in a boring way.

***** not really. The only reason people do anything in life is because it interests them. In college people usually find their interest based on what classes they have the most fun in. In college, if your professor sucks, there's less of a chance that you're going to like the subject matter. How something is explained to people is most of what counts.

scientists*

bwahahaha cientists? you mean scientists?

Hence why it is called science FICTION. All of that relied upon a magical element that, while interesting, was pulled from the ass dimension.

Alistair Von Zanzibar I'm with you on that.

The Mass Effect universe is awesome, no doubt about that. I was only talking about this video.

Marqan I would say these technologies are unfeasible today, but who is to say they are unrealistic in the future? Compared to that kind of technology, like traveling across the galaxy pretty much instantly, we are like cavemen thinking about the internet. Yet the internet happened. I would even say that we are closer to that technology than cavemen are to the internet. Cavemen actually did not think about the internet. We, on the other hand, are already thinking about travelling to other stars, and some people are working on it. So no, I would not make the bold statement to say it is unrealistic. I just want to point out also that biotics in Mass Effect is not a kind of magic. It's simply a source of energy within organics which is amplified by a tech they call "amps". I don't remember all the codex texts, but I think it says a surgery is necessary to implant the amplifiers in the body for a biotic to tap that energy in a useful way. Such energy could exist. We might not have found it yet.

Agreed wholeheartedly. The way that Daniel describes each individual concept is very off from the way the game puts it. Biotics isnt telekinesis, dark matter isn't eezo, etc. Its kind of a bummer that they would make those comparisons.

"Not stupid" as in tactical sense. everyone knows war is stupid, & yet everyone knows war also can be profitable... & some jerks prefer to make money outta screwing people's lives up...

WAR, WAR NEVER CHANGES. But seriously War will never go away even if we want it too. Adding more tech like invisible soldiers is not gonna make any difference to wars of today. War will always be about the same thing. I hate wars as much as the next person but somethings just can't be stopped. These technologies may be used for war but it can also be used to save many lives.

Just as the interviewer

"ridiculous to relate something abstract to real physics"? luckily Einstein thinks very differently from you.

I disagree. People questioning if stuff can be done like in that game/movie/comic book is very important. Many great scientist and engineers were inspired by star trek or similar shows to get into their fields or studying ideas. One guy was inspired by Star Trek and has already begun to work on the mathematics for a warp field. I also enjoy these.

win bunt Yeah, but Einstein's not you and didn't think like you. He'd actually disagree with this. Plus modern physics seeks a unified theory that answers everything, and now we have stuff such as overcomplicated theories and multiverse ideas. Saying that Mass Effect is scientific is like calling BioShock Infinite scientific. It's fiction.

Nostripe361 You're forgetting Space Odyssey and other films that came before Star Trek. Star Trek isn't hard sci-fi, either. Physics and other laws are bent for the sake of fiction. And please name this random "guy" that's working on an unknown warp field. Unless the mathematics adds up. Warp field? Really? Do you even science? Don't confuse science with fiction.

Nostripe361 Plus, from the Wikipedia article on "Warp Field": 'Subsequent calculations found that such a model would require negative mass, the existence of which has never been supported by any evidence, and prohibitive amounts of energy. However, it has recently been found that by changing the shape of the warp drive, much less negative mass and energy could be used, though the energy required is still many orders of magnitude greater than anything currently possible by human beings. NASA scientists have begun preliminary research on such technology.' So unless there's evidence, it can't and won't exist.

Why would aliens want to make direct contact? Just by watching even 1% of human history, aliens should get a pretty good idea that humans are a vile, dissident race of primates that would rather destroy than learn.

Kyle Vanderhoof Either they are like us, which means that there is at least a percentage of the population that is genuinely interested in other peoples and cultures, and who are curious about the world around them; or they are not like us which means they could chose to visit or not visit us on grounds that are incomprehensible to us. In the first case, there would be at least some people who go to other cultures to learn (like our anthropologists), to rule (like our colonialists), to help or spread their religion (like our missionaries), etc, etc. I'm quite sure that *we* would make contact with extraterrestrial civilizations if we encountered them. In the latter case, there should be a normal distribution, witch means that approximately 50% of those civilizations would choose to visit us. But then again, there exists the possibility that our planet is the only one out there with life at all.

Fredrik Bendz Maybe the only planet with life on this arm of the galaxy, but not in the entire thing. There's life out there, we just haven't discovered each other.

Yes, and that we haven't discovered each other is exactly the ting I find strange IF intergalactic space travel is possible. That raises some questions.

yes but would they actually come down and introduce themselves to use since we are not a class 2 civilisation like the protheans did with humanity in mass effect because we are too young and they didn't want to interfere with our development as a species

You don't know what a scientific theory is(it's not "just a theory"), how the scientific method works, or that Kaku isn't even near top in his field of science(although probably the most charismatic person in theoretical physics). That's your problem. Btw, string theory isn't a scientific theory. You're going to need to study up on that scientific method to get that one.

***** Don't worry, I realize there are much more legitimate scientists out there.

Dark matter and dark energy are not theories, those exist and have been proven to exist. String theory has very little to do with those things and he is only speculating that string theory could provide an explanation for their existence. It is true that string theory has very little evidence compared to other theories, but still keep in mind that a theory is not the same thing as a guess. A scientific theory is a model for how something works and the reason it is called a theory is usually because it requires certain assumptions to be made or it can't be applied to everything, but that doesn't mean it isn't true or it hasn't been proven. Gravity is a theory. Relativity is a theory, and yet we wouldn't have cell phones or GPS if relativity wasn't known to be true because our satellites are calibrated according to Einsteins equations. What he said about the universe being mostly composed of dark matter and dark energy is a proven fact, something that has been observed directly by gravitational lensing and the rotation of galaxies. Dark energy has been observed by the redshift of very distant objects. It sounds to me that you just don't know enough about what either of those things actually and are just assuming its space magic invented through someones theory. They are not, they are real things. It is true however that Kaku talks too much about his theory as if it is undoubtedly true. String theory does not have a lot of evidence and as beautiful as it is to have a "theory of everything" I am just not convinced that it is true.

mouseinmyhelmet I understand that a theory is not a guess. I understand that a lot of these theories have good information backing them. I understand that scientists are not idiots. I'm not doubting the existence of dark matter so much as I am doubting the scientists ability to tell exactly what percentage of the universe is composed of dark matter at this point. A lot of scientific theories are true on some level, but they haven't worked out everything yet. For Example: While evolution is proven to be real, perceptions on how humans evolved has changed a lot over the last few decades and will continue to change. They'll nail it eventually, but scientific theories generally take a few centuries to get their shit sorted out. So I'm saying I don't like him pretending that relatively recent information is proven fact. Hell, our current theories on gravity, relativity and quantum physics aren't working together right now. Which means that something is wrong about one of them and it is the reason scientists are looking for a theory to everything in the first place. I imagine that views on exactly how dark matter works and how much there is and how it came to be etc. will change a lot over the coming decades. So it seems to me that Michio's assumption to be able to tell the exact percentage of dark matter in the universe is a bit far fetched. Especially when he turns around and says that humans make up 0.03% of the known universe. That would mean humans alone have 1/766.66 of the mass of all of the known stars and planets (assuming the stars and planets make up 23% of the known universe like he said). 23/0.03 = 766.6666666666666666 cont. I'm not sure if we make up that much of Earths mass alone, not to mention every other star and planet in the known universe. If we're even talking about mass. He might have been referring to the amount of space humans take up, or perhaps both, he was quite vague. Either way the number he gave sounds ludicrous at best.

Atoms are a theory too, you know?

If you're basing everything Nolan purely on Batman that's a shame. This was just a Promo, more advertising. I think most people would concur that everything you've just mentioned is primarily fiction. But at the same time, we can still instill some amazement with these pseudo-facts and keep people dreaming. Afterall, scientists are dreamers who have the means and funding to pursue them.

Bucka90 You guys are both right. Now cease fire. What's in the game stays in the game.

I suppose Kaku's degrees from Harvard (summa cum laude, top of his physics class) and Berkeley, 70 published papers, professorships, and textbooks are all pseudo-achievements as well? Yes, his particularly style of science promotion is cheesy, and gauche, but calling him a pseudo-scientist is not only a gross and ignorant injustice but also totally wrong, He's contributed more to science than you would ever be able to in a hundred lifetimes and should be revered as not only a world-leading scientist, but also someone that understands the need to promote science and make it accessible to people without formal scientific training, like yourself, hence the major "dumbing down". Also, Christoper Nolan is a fantastic director, popular with critics and the public alike, and another figure who understands the need to promote science, even without having come from a scientific background. As you obviously haven't got the message, his films exist in the SCIENCE fiction genre, and obviously require a degree of scientific plausibility, in order to suspend disbelief. To be honest, you just sound like a whiney tw*t who saw one of Christoper Nolan's films, didn't get it, so went "Waaaah!", before spitting out your pacifier and throwing your milk bottle at the tv.

Tom Fahey Well said my friend. Let's put Mass Effect aside: Michio Kaku deserves all of our respect.

You can equally approach Nolans movies as fiction. I certainly didn't attempt to make any scientific conclusions from Inception

Well people are going to be living on mars in the ne'er future so I don't see why archeologists can't go. As for Pluto that'd be significantly longer. Mass effect are probably right with their estimate.

It'll happen when humans will evaporate inner sins like greed and stop burning dead plants to develop sth that will lead to type 3 civilisation. Not nearer than that.

scariest thing ever... invisible nuke