Since ME3 hit shelves and I was able to pick up a copy, it's rekindled my interest in Space that I really haven't had since I was a kid. Since I started Mass Effect 3 I've been watching documentaries on Netflix, TED Talks on space, and reading articles about breakthroughs in space travel.

What intrigues me most is the limit of time, the speed of light. The fact that everything we can see out there outside of our solar system is so far back in time, that it's almost irrelevant. It makes the mind boggle to think about communication and travel in a future of a spacefaring species as they travel to these far off lands. The limits of time on space to me, is the biggest hurdle to overcome in a future universe like Mass Effect.

What intrigues you most about Space? Does a series like Mass Effect get you thinking as well? What can we learn from the series if anything about the future of life outside this planet?

It's definitely been on people's mind's since the endings, I think. No spoilers, so I'll stop there.

The idea of reducing the mass of an object or area of space time to travel at FTL or great speed is one of the more awesome ways of handling FTL travel, in my scifi experience. It still of course requires the requisite invention of "eezo" to work and create the titular mass effect, but so much of the writing is internally consistent about what eezo does that it fits right in. I love the logical approach that FTL travel is possible if we're able to reduce mass to zero.