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Inidentally, isn't it Pioneer 10 and 11 which have encountered the anomaly, not the Voyagers... or are there two different stories here?

The great hope has been carbon nanotubes. Very recently somebody came out with a paper saying even this material can't be made strong enough, but I don't think the question has been settled definitively. A company here in California is actively working on an alternative technology for...

Oops. I corrupted an old wish. Real life -- granted, but it's the life of a naked mole rat. I wish I had my own luxuriously-appointed private airship.

Granted, but it's a mutant killer giraffe from the Planet Vagdor, and it's threatening to frame you for the murders of those student nurses if you don't do its bidding. I wish I could see Karl Rove frogmarched out of the White House in handcuffs.

We shouldn't put too much faith in the established version of history. As someone noted above, history does tend to be written by (or to please) the winners. And no historian is completely without bias, conscious or otherwise. Even eyewitness testimony is necessarily suspect. People lie...