''Far out, dudes!''

''In August 1997, NASA sponsored a 3-day workshop to assess the prospects emerging from physics that may eventually lead to creating propulsion breakthroughs -the kind of breakthroughs that could revolutionize space flight and enable human voyages to other star systems. Experiments and theories    were discussed regarding the coupling of gravity and electromagnetism, vacuum fluctuation energy, warp drives and wormholes, and superluminal quantum tunneling.''

NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings (1999)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19990023204

''We are 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike''

''The main goal of this study was to find feasible methods and strategies for the deflection of large asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km.''

To the deflection of asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km (H.K. Hahn, 2014)

https://archive.org/details/ToTheDeflectionOfAsteroidsInTheDiameterRangeOf5To200Km

''This is the way the world ends 
Not with a whimper but a bang.''

''If we create higher temperature and density in a limited region of the solar interior, we may be able to produce self-supporting detonation thermonuclear reactions that spread to the full solar volume (...) This explosion would annihilate the Earth and the Solar System, as we know them today.''

Artificial Explosion of the Sun- Criterion for Solar Detonation

https://archive.org/details/ArtificialExplosionOfSun.Ab-criterionForSolarDetonation

''We procure means of seeing objects afar off, as in the heaven and remote places; and represent things near as afar off, and things afar off as near; making feigned distances.''

Radar Astronomy (Evans & Hagfors, 1968)

https://archive.org/details/RadarAstronomy