Articles with no commenting allowed

The BBC is #1 as I note, who write pieces of various levels of interest, but gives no avenue for readers to comment. In contrast the Times Of India allows comments of all color and hue, and allows us to see what the masses have to share about the stories. Yes, this makes the comments section ugly sometimes, but a democracy embraces chaos. And it is out of this chaos that meaning ultimately arises

Another, more specific and recent example is of Bloomberg. In rebuking Greg Smith, the executive who resigned from Goldman Sachs and wrote a scathing op-ed piece on the firm's work ethic and wall street in general -- the article has no provision to comment. What are they scared of?

Decide of yourself (Opens in new window):
Here is the link to the rebuking editorial

Here is the link to the original Op-ed piece

Another side-note: I found it particularly difficult finding the original piece via google, and instead went to lots of other pieces on the original (parodies, etc) -- take home what you will, from that. The WSJ rebuttal also carries the link to the original, but available to paid members only. Sheesh, which planet are they coming from???

How space travel will be like

So lately we have been hearing a bit from NASA and others discovering/speculating about matters in the far deep... and invariably the distances pop up -- all in terms of light years

I am sure this throws off many people. Why indeed, should we worry about something we will NEVER see in our lifetime. (And how does it matter if the sun cools in 10 billion years, and so on about all things astronomical)

Well here's what I say. We WILL travel, and we WILL space-travel. And the space travel will be NOTHING like how it is projected in Star Trek/Star Wars/What have you. Here is how I think we will, at some point of time, (space travel,) and I get this from the recently publicized news about the works with the atom smashers, which they want to use to find out where mass comes from (whatever it means), and they want to smash the sub-atomic particles into even more pieces and discover the core of the core (ad infinitum) components.

So finally they will say: THIS is the Higgs Bosom. THIS is responsible for what we call "mass". Or they may say no such thing. Regardless, the direction they are headed, at least to me, it looks like they may one day be able to transform matter from form to form.. and practically reduce anything to its sub-atomic form and then back again. And my "theory" (if you will) starts from there

So since there is nothing faster than light, meaning photons, we will eventually learn to reduce ourselves into a form that can ride on photon vehicles and travel wherever we are beamed up. To boot, when we are re-constructed, we will retain our exact original form. There will be no aging, and we will be young and fresh as ever, even after traveling dozens of years riding on photons. And we will appear as gods before any unfortunate races that may exist throughout the universe.. and mankind will begin yet another chapter in barbarianism and violence at a scale yet to be imagined..