"Hawking To Warp Speed

Captain Picard and Kirk may have had the brawns, but Stephen Hawking definitely has the brains. If you are not familiar with Stephen Hawking, now is the time to Google him and become aware of a man who has done more for the world from a wheelchair than you or I will ever achieve. Sorry, it's just true. Hawking's latest theories revolve around the future of our species and the need to colonize space, but what really is grabbing the headlines is that maybe those guys on Star Trek really weren't smoking too much reefer. Yeah, right?! He believes that by using "matter/anti-matter annihilation," that velocities just below the speed of light could be reached. By using this propulsion, man could reach star systems that are habitable within a six years time period. What no one will address is why there will be a bunch of 5-year-olds running loose on the space ship once it arrives at its destination. Come on now...six years in space with a co-ed crew...I know I would be going for the 1 Trillion Mile High Club! While there is no foreseeable usage of this technology, Hawking himself doesn't want to be confined to this planet....he's booking a ticket on Virgin Galactic