How cool is this? We first heard about it on television in the late 60s; then in the late 80s we actually got to "see" it. Now in the 21st century we finally have documented medical proof of a humanoid - a human, in fact - with green blood.
Who cares if the phenomenon turned out to be completely medically explainable? Having green blood is just totally, undeniably cool. I'm glad to hear that the dude in question has made a complete recovery, but I sure hope somebody took some good photos.
I get the feeling that Trekkers around the world are starting up betting pools on when medical science will find the first humanoids with magenta-coloured Klingon blood (remember Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?) or quadrophonic hearing like the Andorians.
Last month we learned that NASA scientists are looking - I mean actually looking - for a planet in the 40 Eridani system that could conceivably support life. Any longtime Trekker knows that 40 Eridani A (it's a trinary system, dontcha know) was posited by Gene Roddenberry as the main sun of the planet Vulcan. Think about this: we're going out to look for something that just might exist, for the sole reason that a popular, albeit completely fictional, TV program says that's where it is. Cool. Bonus points for being 16 light-years away.
In the meantime, physicists continue to work on 3-D printers - crude replicators, in other words, although they can't yet synthesize food or drink - and they've been working on teleportation, with some limited success, for years.
And people look sideways at those of us who enjoy science fiction?
*scoff*
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