14th June 2010, 10:27 AM
What they don't mention in Star Trek is that Earth is a paradise, except for Afghanistan, which they just surrounded in a force field and have decided to ignore.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)