I Think A Colony In Space Will

An Event Horizon, Or The Point Of No Return, Is Only A Byproduct Of The Bending Of Space. However, Electricity And Magnetism, By Themselves, Have No Event Horizon. It Gets Complicated, However, If A Black Hole Has Charge, And Then This New Solution Does Have An Event Horizon.

Eternal Life Does Not Violate The Laws Of Physics. After All, We Only Die Because Of One Word: "error." The Longer We Live, The More Errors There Are That Are Made By Our Bodies When They Read Our Genes. That Means Cells Get Sluggish. The Body Doesn't Function As Well As It Could, Which Is Why The Skin Ages. Then Organs Eventually Fail, So That's Why We Die.

The River Of Time May Fork Into Rivers, In Which Case You Have A Parallel Reality And So Then You Can Become A Time Traveler And Not Have To Worry About Causing A Time Paradox.

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'm A Physicist, And We Have Something Called Moore's Law, Which Says Computer Power Doubles Every 18 Months. So Every Christmas, We More Or Less Assume That Our Toys And Appliances Are More Or Less Twice As Powerful As The Previous Christmas.