This is the sweetest and most loving action I have ever seen! Thanks to the beautiful young woman and to the beautiful babies!

Continue expansion? Is that why you named yourself "Doomed"??

Yeah, and it's getting really dark in here.

IMHO, capitalism is the ONLY cause of these problems. It is totally dependent on the increase of all goods, on a continuous need for growth and the further enrichment of the already-rich, damn the cost to the poor and the planet. The only sane answer is a equitable economy (it's called Socialism, folks), and the development of a socially moral compass.

Why is it that this possibility -- of "OWNING" such a human-like entity such a shameful behavior, and yet so desirable to have a constant helpful companion, and still yet so terrifying that the thing will turn around and kill me without a second thought -- why is it so complex!?

Took a screen shot of the first link above -- this is going onto my monitor back-screen ... just to keep me humble. I simply cannot begin to wrap my mind around the vastness of this universe ... one just HAS to think there must be billions of planets out there with intelligent life. I wonder if the human species will ever get to find them -- they are so very far away and may be long gone.

Very small, indeed!! It may be an African proverb (or that of an Irish mariner - big debate), but there is a saying that I really love: " God, thy oceans are so vast ... and my boat is so small." I would like to see this expressed somehow on the first intergalactic space craft.

I was just about to say the same thing! It must be an exhausting job, cleaning up these images! But the result is fantissimo!